Show HN: Free Unlimited Private File Sending (Beta)

Privacy policy? Terms of Service? About company / developer(s) page? Technology details (P2P, intermediary server)?<p>Why would anyone download and install an app from a simple splash page like this? It could be anything.

You are missing a Linux version. Yes, Linux has small market share yada yada yada, but you will find that a much larger percentage of new adapters and tech influencers are Linux users.

Suggestion: If the visitor is using Windows, show a Windows screenshot on the homepage. If they're using a Mac, show a screenshot of the Mac version.

My thoughts:<p>1. I opened the web site and said ah, this looks pretty cool, I installed the software and thought, eah.. okay I'll install it even though I really don't want to install anything.<p>2. Upload was simple after signup.. I understand you have to do the signup thing to validate people somehow.. so for my test I sent a small file to myself..<p>3. Got the email to download it saw the link and tough ah sweet, just click it.. and was presented with the exe download.. hmm another thing to install to download the file... I thought, nah, not worth it, I don't want this thing anymore, form there I deleted the client.<p>You need to make it simple to share with people who don't have the downloader, you can't expect people to install something to download files they were sent.<p>Keep it free yet cap files to say 1MB for free users or something simple.. Paid users ~$5/mo get 2GB uploads..

If it's free (and it's planning to stay free), how is the company planning to stay in business?

That opens additional way for malware find its way to non-technical user computer... Until now I could explain my granpa never to run any executables or downloads that come in emails.<p>I think you're opening a can of worms. The email is HTML, so it would be very hard for my granpa to verify that the link is actually to your site. As you can imagine it is very easy to make the email and site look exactly like yours, and even make the link URL itself look similar.

I got this on gmail for the verification email, thought you would want to know for users that are a bit less technically savvy:<p>Be careful with this message. Similar messages have been used to steal people's personal information. Unless you trust the sender, don't click on links or reply with personal information. Learn more

As a user I love the no-nonsense straight to the point (and download) page, but as a HN'er I'd like to know more about it (and the company) before installing the software.

Comparison: This looks like an automated desktop version of MediaFire/MegaUpload/YouSendIt, since right now it works by downloading from an intermediary (I assume, from what tashmahalic said: "You run it, it downloads your files"). It has advantages in being ad-free (for now at least), supporting unlimited sizes (ditto), auto-resume, return receipts, and encryption (though I suspect some of the existing sites may have these too).<p>It'll still be a winner if it provides a better user experience than the others, of course. When it goes fully p2p, it may become the killer p2p file transfer app that the world's been waiting for.* Good luck.<p>(* or does this already exist?)

"Sorry, you must run WireOver from inside the DMG it comes in."<p>Why?

To give a proper introduction - I'm Trent, one of the co-founders of WireOver. We want our tool to become indispensable to all of you, and I really appreciate your feedback. I'm always impressed by how smart and useful your comments are. Thanks in advance.<p>Please give WireOver a spin and let me know what you think. I'm trent@wireover.com.

"Auto-Resume If your transfer is interrupted, it will automatically resume, even if you restart your computer."<p>Interesting feature. So far I've only see torrents have this. Would love if my downloads online had working pause and resume functionality.

I can see some use for this in transferring large files (for example virtual machine images) between my own computers which are sometimes connected by wlan, lan and sometimes just wan.<p>There are cases when I don't want to be waiting for the transfer to complete. Would be great if I could just take the laptop and finish the transfer over the internet later on.<p>User experience should be simple. For serious syncing I would use some other tools. I'm thinking something like right clicking on folder to make it "available", then on some other computer selecting which folders I want to download.<p>Some clever combination of web and client software could make this pretty smooth.

Your software should tell the user what it's going to do on each step before actually asking the user for permission and then doing it (it's not clear that it's an installer in the dmg, and that it's taking my email address to create an account and install a daemon and thingy on the menubar.<p>I like minimalism as much as anyone, but some basic info would make it a lot easier to trust (and thus recommend).

Have not tried the application as of yet, although perhaps you should change the UI to read:<p><pre><code> "Send these files to:" for the label and "name@example.com" for the greyed-out default. </code></pre> Instead of the current[0]:<p><pre><code> "Email to Send to" </code></pre> [0] <a href="http://www.wireover.com/media/screencap.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.wireover.com/media/screencap.png</a>

«WireOver is a desktop app for sending files to anyone, anywhere.» True, just as long as GNU/Linux users are considered "noone, nowhere".

You could just pass TrueCrypt volumes with the free service and have strong crypto file sharing for free.

Wow, this is pretty cool. It would be interesting to talk with you about your crypto.

It may be a mistake on my part, but initially <a href="http://drop.io" rel="nofollow">http://drop.io</a> appeared to to resolve to your site. It would be helpful if you can confirm or deny this.

I started using AeroFS for something like this, but it is about "syncing", while all the time I keep thinking it ought to be possible for these guys to do file sending as well.<p>Anyone AeroFS fans here?

I would like to use it at work but also personally from the same computer, so perhaps you could consider something like an account alias so I can link both to one WireOver.

It is minimalistic and that's great! You say it is P2P, so would I end up paying for someone else's traffic like torrents ? I didn't see anything in the settings though.

How does this compare to something like Kicksend?

I noticed upon installation WireOver is connecting to logs.papertailapp.com - what kind of info are you logging?

This makes a lot of bold claims.<p>Need to see some credibility or explanations for these claims before I trust it.

Do files download over HTTP or through the app on the recipients computer

How's this one comparing to sendoid?

I hope this is legit!