Okay, let me preface the following question with the admission I'm a complete jerk.<p>Now that's out of the way, I'm wondering what makes me want to use Kicksend over Ge.tt or the half dozen other file transfer services? WTH makes you so special?<p>EDIT: Upvoting this comment will only encourage me. Stop it.
Ummm, what happened to Sendoid–which TC also covered and is a YC company?<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/sendoid-finally-sharing-big-files-isnt-a-huge-pain/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/sendoid-finally-sharing-big...</a><p>Why is YC backing what seems like nearly identical startups (at least solving nearly identical problems).
From the faq <a href="http://kicksend.com/faq" rel="nofollow">http://kicksend.com/faq</a><p><pre><code> Who owns the files I send?
You do. Your files are your own, we don't see them,
we just deliver them to the people you specify.
</code></pre>
but from the terms <a href="http://kicksend.com/terms" rel="nofollow">http://kicksend.com/terms</a><p><pre><code> By accepting these Terms of Use, you agree that all content ...
is the sole property of Kicksend</code></pre>
Discussion from when they announced on Hacker News as Receivd—they've pivoted quite a bit since then, but makes for an interesting comparison.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2352852" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2352852</a>
Honestly, what's really missing from my life is a way to plug something into a USB port on my mac, plug something into a USB port on my friend's Windows computer, and give him 20 GB of pirated video. I would pay for that.
Beautiful implementation, but...<p>This feels on the surface like we're deep into the sort of "feature as startup" territory that marked the worst excesses of the last dot com boom.<p>Am I wrong? What makes this a big enough potential that it is in YC?
Looks like a take on Cloudapp, <a href="http://getcloudapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://getcloudapp.com/</a>, but free and supports up to 150MB transfers. Cloudapp is free with premium features that supports up to 250MB and is dominating the space.
When I signed up and first arrived at the get started page that list of steps freaked me out a bit. I thought 'what the hell I have to do all this just to send a file?' I soon realized these were just ways I could get more quota, but perhaps the first page should be the send files page, rather than the how to get more bandwidth one, or redesign that page a bit.
From your terms of service:<p><pre><code> "While you retain all rights in such communications or
material, you grant us and our agents and affiliates a
non-exclusive, paid-up, perpetual, and worldwide right to
copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, translate,
adapt, modify, and otherwise use such material for any
purpose regardless of the form or medium (now known or not
currently known) in which it is used."
</code></pre>
How do I retain all rights If I am giving a ton of them to you?<p>PS
Your lawyers did a poor cut and paste job on the terms of use page.<p>There is some unicode conversion problems:<p>"Users Materials" (this is not the only time but you paid them not me)<p>The terms of use mentions sections named "Use of Your Materials" and "Users Materials" however neither of these sections actually exists.
Realtime? I don't think it's realtime at all. The file has to be uploaded, my friend has to be on your site to even get the link to the file. Hows that realtime?<p>Ge.tt is more realtime! You get the link even before your file is completely uploaded. You can share that link while things are still being uploaded.<p>And here is the reason why I did not sign up - You ask me to sign up. You ask my friend to sign up. I still get spams from a million other similar services (YouSendIt, for eg.) who don't stop spamming me no matter what I do. When a file sharing service asks me to sign up, I see a big red flag instead of a homepage.
Why would I "kick send"? Wouldn't I press send, or touch send, or maybe kick <i>to</i> send, or send a kick (violent)... is kicksend supposed to be a new verb? I can't get past the name.<p>It sounds like a mispronounced "quicksand", a meaningless mash of two words. Neither the noun+verb nor the verb+verb interpretations are grammatically sensible, and the verb+noun meaning just doesn't feel right.
How funny, when I first read about Kicksend.com, I thought they were Letscrate.com and wondered if this was just a big redesign.<p>As a frequent user of these services, I admit the variety is a bit dizzying at times. But I welcome all the competition (and wonder what market consolidation will look like down the line...)
I've been using Kicksend as beta. I transferred several gigabytes of data to a dozen or so people. The developers were always responsive to feedback and I am glad to have contributed to this project, if only in a way of feature suggestions.
I'm sure the team is fantastic and will create a great and successful product leaving egg on my face, but aren't they attacking a problem solved by either DropBox or RapidShare et. al.
One problem with your desktop app is that it is not allowing me to login. I am using the same password that i successfully logged into your website with and nothing...
Wow, ge.tt looks like a really cool service for sharing files.<p>Kicksend is kind of okay too i guess, but thanks for submitting this, i had no idea about ge.tt!