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Simple and fast file sharing with ge.tt

42 points by danielh 16y ago

bradmccarty 16y ago
Mac users, it seems to me, wouldn't get any use out of this. Cloud App does the same thing but is on my local machine so I don't have to go to a website. Could be handy for Windows and Linux users I suppose. Am I missing a bigger picture?
- ianjorgensen 16y ago
  I believe you are. Its not backup, its sharing. One stop file sharing versus having to choose sharing sites by file type e.g.[picture:twitpic,video:twitvid,vid-pic:flickr,pdf:scribid,slide:slideshare,...]
  - bradmccarty 16y ago
    Yeah. Completely fair. I wrote that comment at a first blush. After digging in for a minute, ge.tt is slick.
yatsyk 16y ago
Very convenient service. Just works! Curious about business model. I'm sure that services like rapidshare could be profitable (bad interface, worsen service for free users etc), but it not so clear how to get profitable such service with so strait forward interface. Other file-sharing service with simple interface that I've tried to use was filesavr.com but after some time it became very unstable.
- freeall 16y ago
  We have some secrets hidden up our sleeves when it comes to the business model ;) In two weeks we'll have more info for you.
comice 16y ago
They make a big deal about saving you time because you have "better things to do", but then their "Tell me more" presentation wastes loads of your time making you click multiple times without actually telling you anything of substance!
- freeall 16y ago
  (co-founder here) Yeah, we could do SO much with that presentation. It was put together very fast because people didn't understand what we do. And you know what? They still don't :) We're working on it as we speak, and sometime next week we're presenting a completely different front page. As a test to what we do, try sharing 30 random audio and video files. Then immediately open the Ge.tt link in another browser (or another computer). You can choose any file you want and start streaming or downloading the file. It does not need to be uploaded first. Also, does not need flash or java.
  - bradmccarty 16y ago
    You guys should absolutely explain that. It would help, as well, to explain that you can share multiple files in a single URL. I'm writing up ge.tt on The Next Web right now. Any chance you guys have a monetization plan? If you don't want to share it here, email me quickly please - brad@thenextweb.com
    - freeall 16y ago
      I'll send you an email.
  - bradmccarty 16y ago
    A question about how this works, as well. Does it essentially then create a peer-to-peer transfer, running through ge.tt's server as a type of proxy?
  - sherr 16y ago
    Please also make your "Tell me more" presentation HTML rather than Flash.
fertel 16y ago
I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.
nicolas314 16y ago
Any chance we could have this through https? Encrypting the download link is always a good idea.
- freeall 16y ago
  The security is being reworked and rethought and https would most likely be implemented soon. We've looked into it already so it's not entirely new to us.
gabriele 16y ago
everything is shared under the ge.tt (domain's root name can't be a CNAME). you obviously think you won't need a content delivery network at scale, do you?
- freeall 16y ago
  We've been working a lot with the scaling technique, and even though we are doing ok for now, we're reworking a lot of the backend. Not sure when, but it'll be rolled out.
kqueue 16y ago
Well done! How about adding drag/drop mechanism for browsers that supports it? That will be really convenient because I can just drag the files and move on.
- freeall 16y ago
  We actually have that already :) At one we had it announced on the page, but then people complained that they couldn't do it in their browser - because they used one that didn't support it. We'll probably put it back in somehow. We'll think about it.
  - woodall 16y ago
    I've used script.aculo.us and had it work in Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome; christopherwoodall.com/youtube. JQuery also has a Drag-and-Drop feature.
    - freeall 16y ago
      Only one missing... Those were the users complaining.
  - kqueue 16y ago
    You need to fallback into regular file select if the browser doesn't support it. :)
bajsejohannes 16y ago
Very nice! One little thing: On the right sidebar, before your first upload, it says: Free account Shares live longer Live statistics create account I'm pretty sure that is supposed to mean that shares live longer and you get live statistics if you have an account, but I think it reads the other way around: Free account means that your shares lives longer.
- freeall 16y ago
  You mean that people don't associate the "live longer, live sta..." with creating an account or how do you mean?
  - bajsejohannes 16y ago
    Yes. To be precise - I didn't visually connect them. The following text layout: Free account X Y create account (especially with the design on ge.tt) looks to me like: "Free account has feature X and Y - create an account to remove these". Looking at the values for X and Y, that couldn't be what you meant, but it took a second for me to realize. Maybe it's just me... (I like the text better once you've uploaded something. Then there is a header with "Create an account and get access to:")
    - freeall 16y ago
      Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean. We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.

42 points by danielh 16y ago

Mac users, it seems to me, wouldn't get any use out of this. Cloud App does the same thing but is on my local machine so I don't have to go to a website. Could be handy for Windows and Linux users I suppose. Am I missing a bigger picture?

ianjorgensen 16y ago
I believe you are. Its not backup, its sharing. One stop file sharing versus having to choose sharing sites by file type e.g.[picture:twitpic,video:twitvid,vid-pic:flickr,pdf:scribid,slide:slideshare,...]
- bradmccarty 16y ago
  Yeah. Completely fair. I wrote that comment at a first blush. After digging in for a minute, ge.tt is slick.

yatsyk 16y ago

Very convenient service. Just works! Curious about business model. I'm sure that services like rapidshare could be profitable (bad interface, worsen service for free users etc), but it not so clear how to get profitable such service with so strait forward interface. Other file-sharing service with simple interface that I've tried to use was filesavr.com but after some time it became very unstable.

freeall 16y ago
We have some secrets hidden up our sleeves when it comes to the business model ;) In two weeks we'll have more info for you.

comice 16y ago

They make a big deal about saving you time because you have "better things to do", but then their "Tell me more" presentation wastes loads of your time making you click multiple times without actually telling you anything of substance!

freeall 16y ago
(co-founder here) Yeah, we could do SO much with that presentation. It was put together very fast because people didn't understand what we do. And you know what? They still don't :) We're working on it as we speak, and sometime next week we're presenting a completely different front page. As a test to what we do, try sharing 30 random audio and video files. Then immediately open the Ge.tt link in another browser (or another computer). You can choose any file you want and start streaming or downloading the file. It does not need to be uploaded first. Also, does not need flash or java.
- bradmccarty 16y ago
  You guys should absolutely explain that. It would help, as well, to explain that you can share multiple files in a single URL. I'm writing up ge.tt on The Next Web right now. Any chance you guys have a monetization plan? If you don't want to share it here, email me quickly please - brad@thenextweb.com
  - freeall 16y ago
    I'll send you an email.
- bradmccarty 16y ago
  A question about how this works, as well. Does it essentially then create a peer-to-peer transfer, running through ge.tt's server as a type of proxy?
- sherr 16y ago
  Please also make your "Tell me more" presentation HTML rather than Flash.

fertel 16y ago

I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.

nicolas314 16y ago

Any chance we could have this through https? Encrypting the download link is always a good idea.

freeall 16y ago
The security is being reworked and rethought and https would most likely be implemented soon. We've looked into it already so it's not entirely new to us.

gabriele 16y ago

everything is shared under the ge.tt (domain's root name can't be a CNAME). you obviously think you won't need a content delivery network at scale, do you?

freeall 16y ago
We've been working a lot with the scaling technique, and even though we are doing ok for now, we're reworking a lot of the backend. Not sure when, but it'll be rolled out.

kqueue 16y ago

Well done! How about adding drag/drop mechanism for browsers that supports it? That will be really convenient because I can just drag the files and move on.

freeall 16y ago
We actually have that already :) At one we had it announced on the page, but then people complained that they couldn't do it in their browser - because they used one that didn't support it. We'll probably put it back in somehow. We'll think about it.
- woodall 16y ago
  I've used script.aculo.us and had it work in Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome; christopherwoodall.com/youtube. JQuery also has a Drag-and-Drop feature.
  - freeall 16y ago
    Only one missing... Those were the users complaining.
- kqueue 16y ago
  You need to fallback into regular file select if the browser doesn't support it. :)

bajsejohannes 16y ago

Very nice! One little thing: On the right sidebar, before your first upload, it says: Free account Shares live longer Live statistics create account I'm pretty sure that is supposed to mean that shares live longer and you get live statistics if you have an account, but I think it reads the other way around: Free account means that your shares lives longer.

freeall 16y ago
You mean that people don't associate the "live longer, live sta..." with creating an account or how do you mean?
- bajsejohannes 16y ago
  Yes. To be precise - I didn't visually connect them. The following text layout: Free account X Y create account (especially with the design on ge.tt) looks to me like: "Free account has feature X and Y - create an account to remove these". Looking at the values for X and Y, that couldn't be what you meant, but it took a second for me to realize. Maybe it's just me... (I like the text better once you've uploaded something. Then there is a header with "Create an account and get access to:")
  - freeall 16y ago
    Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean. We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.