"Now that we've got you setup with using your Facebook account, you need to create a password for Kicksend. This allows you to login to our apps with your email address (xxxxx@yyyyy.com) and password."<p>I think you guys need to drop that password requirement...
It is kind of crazy that in 2012 this isn't already a solved problem for most people. (for me, I just do an scp to a machine with shared unix accounts, which is the 1990s solution (very similar to the unencrypted 1980s solution), and obviously not an option for the 99%.<p>I'd really like to see this take off, get integrated into various apps, etc.
Services that don't charge hurt the rest of us entrepreneurs.<p>It sets the expectations that this kind of service should be free the same way the iPhone AppStore has created the perception that $2 is expensive for an app :(
At first glance this looks like a more polished 42share (<a href="http://www.42share.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.42share.com</a>) but forces you to sign up before using. The only about page is linked to in tiny print at the bottom and is just about the members of the team. That might just be because it's in beta, but it will net more users if they can see some kind of description of how it works before having to provide information for nothing in return. Better yet would be to go the 42share route and make signing up optional.
I find it rather amusing that the stated problem is people stalking you through your social media timeline, but then to get started with Kicksend's solution to this problem the only authentication option offered is to use Facebook connect.
How is this different from Google+? I can send my photos to specific people through Google+ and if I don't give anyone else access they will never see it. I can even restrict them from re-sharing the photos with anyone else.
<i>“However, sharing those photos with a subset of your contacts or sending full quality personal images to just your family members is still remarkably difficult. That’s where we come in.”</i><p>Hmm, not really. My sister who is not the most technical person has been uploading pictures to PicasaWeb and sharing them with specific people and groups. With the extra storage (whose price sadly increased with Google Drive), I also always upload my files at full resolution and sharing is easy.<p>The odd thing to me is that if you position yourself against Facebook (who is the implicit target of the first paragraphs), and you go completely free, you have to wonder what the catch is. I pay Google <i>some</i> money for the storage at least.
"We were living far from our families and needed an easy way to send and receive large batches of original quality photos, videos and other files."<p>Although many good ideas start this way obviously you have to take into account how many others are in the same situation.<p>By "original quality" I'm assuming they mean the full, say, 3 to 8mb file not some 60k jpg. While there are certainly people in the printing and graphic design industry (and others) who might need this even keeping in mind that the service is free I don't see a large user base developing. And the relatively small user base won't even be paying for the service.
Is it a response to Dropbox, Google Drive, et al? Seems like they're a more elegant way to handle this problem nowadays, but since Kicksend launched well after Dropbox, I'm possibly missing something.
This seems easily doable without involving a third party that needs to keep a record of every file sent, the time and the sender and recipient.<p>But at least this is a step in the right direction.<p>Now, what if she sends an encrypted file consisting of copyrighted materials? RIAA, MPAA, are you reading along?<p>What are we going to do to prevent that?
I'm really surprised this company received money from so many VC's.<p>They're offering photo & video sharing by email ! Seriously ? Is it that hard for someone to login to Flickr or YouTube and click the email icon.<p>I feel like any 1/2 way decent engineer could make a clone of this company in 8 hrs
I kinda miss the previous design, I thought it was more distinctive:<p><a href="http://mikekus.com/archive/kicksend-homepage-page-design/" rel="nofollow">http://mikekus.com/archive/kicksend-homepage-page-design/</a>