Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
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Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#2Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#3Congrats Zac! Works like magic :)
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#4Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?
We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#5I like the emphasis on sending rather than hosting. I think the Drop in DropBox makes sense for sharing folders, but I don't think it makes sense for sharing individual files. There are services for hosting different types of large files, like Vimeo, DropBox, GitHub or just a web server. Secure transfer of files is a different problem from the user perspective IMO.
I also like how they've went through the trouble to actually make it more powerful than (most of) the competition, by allowing direct connections. (Sure, AIM supports it but it's brittle, has a confusing UI, and requires more coordination between users.)
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#61) "[ ] Set a Password [ ] Reusable Link?"
Should have tags on the text.
2) When you click "Set a Password" it should set focus to the input. I couldn't even tell it was an input box, I thought it was just a gray box. Style changes could help too.
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#7I like the emphasis on sending rather than hosting. I think the Drop in DropBox makes sense for sharing folders, but I don't think it makes sense for sharing individual files. There are services for hosting different types of large files, like Vimeo, DropBox, GitHub or just a web server. Secure transfer of files is a different problem from the user perspective IMO. I also like how they've went through the trouble to…
We definitely agree and think it's a huge area that's been overlooked. Files keep getting bigger and it takes forever to get them up to hosted services.
We're hyper-sensitive about our data as well, and wanted to create something that gives people built-in security and privacy but make it all super-easy.
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#8it actually works. not sure about the mechanism but well done guys.
what I like most about this startup is that they provide file sharing service without actually incurring any storage costs.
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#9Excellent service! I tried it and it's very simple and easy to use. I'm curious... how does one initiate a P2P transfer between two computers using just browser technology?
We built a reliable file transfer method on top of the peer-to-peer media streaming technology used by Chat-Roulette and its clones, RTMFP.
Which is a relatively recent addition to Flash.
Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain
#10Missing from the article (and the linked summary of other sites that do this) is letscrate.com, which does it so well that I'm not even interested in looking at sendoid. It's dead easy, and my clients understand and remember the name after I say it once.