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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

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Post by pr0zac »

tptacek wrote: post #49
pr0zac wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The protection against redirection is inherent in the underlying peer-to-peer media streaming technology we built on top of (RTMFP), as is the crypto. Going off your profile you seem to be a security researcher type. Would love to discuss things further with you offband. Feel free to email me directly, email is in my profile.

I don't believe that your email is there. I may take a whack at it later this week (we're launching a product and I'm pretty busy, but I do love me some custom crypto protocol.)

Emailed you instead.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by shawndrost »

pr0zac wrote: post #16
shawndrost wrote: post #10

Missing 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.

I dig Crate, but we don't really do the same thing. letscrate.com is an really awesomely designed and implemented cloud storage provider. Sendoid.com is an in browser file transfer method. I wouldn't consider us competitors (at most very indirectly) and think more than anything we complement products like Crate or DropBox.

Hmm... I see that it's implemented differently, but aren't they accomplishing the same user task? Fundamentally, they're both solutions to the "this file is too large to email" problem. Or am I missing something?

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by lamnk »

Assume that I want to send a large file to multiple recipients. Does your P2P technology mean that it works like torrent, each node will contribute some of its bandwidth to uploading or that the file will be sent directly from my computer to each of my recipients ?

Edit: How does it compare to http://www.bittorrent.com/dna ?

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by andymoe »

sahillavingia wrote: post #50
lyime wrote: post #28

Awesome service! One major request: Please create an API. So many startups/services need a good way to upload large files efficiently. It takes a lot of effort to create an file upload feature that works and provides a good UX across browsers/platforms. We would use it for Mugasha (artists upload large audi files) and would pay for it.

Check out Crate's API? http://letscrate.com/api

OK. It was cool the first three times you pointed out crate here and on the TC article but now it's getting to be a bit much.

EDIT: I'll take the karma hit.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by codemechanic »

pr0zac wrote: post #42
codemechanic wrote: post #38

How different Sendoid is from Tonido?( http://www.tonido.com ) With Tonido you can right click any file or folder and it will create an URL for the resource. You can share the URL with anybody for download. There is no limit on file size, no uploading - completely private and secure.

Can't find their send file immediately from the browser button? I don't think my dad's gonna be able to use it without that.

:). I guess your father can right click the files and folder get the link.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by lyime »

sahillavingia wrote: post #50
lyime wrote: post #28

Awesome service! One major request: Please create an API. So many startups/services need a good way to upload large files efficiently. It takes a lot of effort to create an file upload feature that works and provides a good UX across browsers/platforms. We would use it for Mugasha (artists upload large audi files) and would pay for it.

Check out Crate's API? http://letscrate.com/api

Not really what I am looking for. The backend itself is fairly trivial. Its the end to end experience that is painful. Mostly on the client side.

Re: Sendoid (YC W11): Finally, Sharing Big Files Isn’t A Huge Pain

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Post by alexgartrell »

tptacek wrote: post #49
pr0zac wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The protection against redirection is inherent in the underlying peer-to-peer media streaming technology we built on top of (RTMFP), as is the crypto. Going off your profile you seem to be a security researcher type. Would love to discuss things further with you offband. Feel free to email me directly, email is in my profile.

I don't believe that your email is there. I may take a whack at it later this week (we're launching a product and I'm pretty busy, but I do love me some custom crypto protocol.)

Please, please, please share your findings :) Your blog is the sad little feed in my Google Reader list that never gets any love, and, while I appreciate that you're getting shit done instead of entertaining the unwashed masses such as myself, I think this could be a great article. So again, please :)
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