Looks pretty straightforward. But why use this over, for example, crate? Also, how are you going to make revenue out of it? S3 does cost money.
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Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the file to upload would be nice. Having to launch Finder and browsing to the file I'm looking for, then dragging it back to the browser, can take much longer than just clicking a button, browsing and clicking "open".
Thanks for the feedback. We'll certainly add a classic upload page. Also, we plan to have freemium model soon. We also have a Mac & Linux client in the works - just need to find the time!
Drag & drop doesn't seem to work for me (Debian GNU/Linux, dragging from Thunar file manager to firefox). So I second the request for a file select button.
I second the seconding. I couldn't try the service because I don't even have a graphical file manager installed so I couldn't even try to drag'n'drop from anywhere. Then again, I'm not likely to really use this kind of services either since I have my own server which I can scp files to.
Because the trustee of the domain (which one would assume would be an organization within the country) has administrative rights for the domain. And that trustee can decide to require local presence to use that TLD, which might leave this particular service offline, at least for a time.
It does however tend to color your judgement about how professional and reliable this service is. If they risked their future on the stability of the Somalia domain registry - just so they could have a quirky domain name.
Calling yourself slashdot is funny if you are a geek site - worrying if you are my pension fund.
It's so beautiful I can't figure our how to use it. I read the about section, which seems to suggest that you should drag a file onto the browser, and then something will happen. I dragged a text file onto the red circle, and it just opened the file in the browser. No upload happened as far as I could tell. I'm using Opera 11.52 and Win XP. Am I just missing the point?
Incidentally, I found some text that says "Drag & drop your file onto the Castle below.", but it's white on white, so I was only able to notice it by selecting the text. If I had seen that text originally, it would have made the page slightly less mysterious.
Definitely easy to use, but once I was on the preview page for my image, I didn't see an easy link to share right now. Is the link I'm on shareable? I think there should be a few default sharing options (other than Twitter/Facebook) right on the page: link, e-mail, maybe SMS?
Edit: I see the Sociable buttons that include e-mail, this should be much more obvious. Still don't see an obvious "Copy this link".
Nice. Seems similar in functionality to http://ge.tt/ and others.
Does anyone know of a service that allows for easy upload and management (search, tags etc) of files stored in different cloud providers (S3, dropbox, Google etc, not stored in the service)?
I tried to drop an image file. While it correctly fired the dragover event(changed the text to "Drop it like it's hot"), it didn't prevent the default drop event correctly - instead firefox 3.6 just showed me the image.
Instant short-links is a nice idea, especially if you're aiming for the Twitter market.
Progressive enhancement would be good: the background doesn't render correctly in IE9 making the main text impossible to read. That applies to the homepage and the sign-up page. You'll lose potential users who will simply move on.
I don't get what makes it better than like a Minus? I would like one of these drop.io replacements to offer encryption or passwords to get to their shared content. Similar to what dropsend does.
Our aim, as mentioned on the top of every page is to let our users "Upload and share your files, beautifully." Key word being 'beautifully'. I really don't see how Minus fits into that...? Looking at their front page, it's all a bunch of noise.
I've been using it for ~6 months and have never encountered any limits, file size or bandwidth.
It is open source too: https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
Access to the OS clipboard would require the use of Flash. I would like to stay away from that. We'll see what our options are. Thanks for the feedback!
Access to the clipboard are reasons why I still install apps like Grabbox, Tinygrab, etc (less steps I have to take). Hesitance over the use of Flash for a usability gain for the user seems like a silly sort of squeamishness (look at bit.ly's copy to clipboard buttons).
I like the notion of prompting the user to drop their files on something evocative (a castle) rather than a cold generic empty box. Good intro UX, clever take on zero-conf.
Too clever perhaps. Zero UI doesn't mean No UI. I also had to read the About to figure out that I could drop a file onto the castle wall, which btw failed to do anything (I assume I need a login). What's missing is something called "Affordance" in UX nomenclature.
Is this a neat side project or a potential business? I've run into 50 simple, drag / drop file uploading websites, some (somehow) with funding, like Min.us
We just made it as a side project originally, for ourselves. But then it started to spread, so we opened it up for everybody and just seeing where it takes us.
You can upload a file in one step with Castle. No need to register. We're also making an awesome Mac OS X and Linux client to go along with our awesome service. :D
#edit: Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the file to upload would be nice. Having to launch Finder and browsing to the file I'm looking for, then dragging it back to the browser, can take much longer than just clicking a button, browsing and clicking "open".