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I always find myself frustrated when a site doesn't actually describe what it does. So far I can only figure out that Crate is for sharing and may be similar to Dropbox. I couldn't find an FAQ on the site and don't want to register until I know what it is.

So... what is it?

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Yeah, we're wary about people being like "wtf is this?" so we're slowly opening it up. We're too busy working on features to worry about time-consuming things like welcome messages and how-to pages for right now. Soon though. :)

It's drag-and-drop file-sharing, at a glance. It does much more, but that's the basics. It's faster than Dropbox for certain things (though Dropbox will be far more feature-ful).

Kudos to you for not wasting time right now on the stuff that doesn't matter yet.

Thanks, it's tough but it must be done!

We're too busy working on features to worry about time-consuming things like welcome messages and how-to pages for right now.

.. But there's time for blogging and commenting on HN?

I'm the designer, and I just spent around 20 hours designing in the past 48. Taking a small break, then sleeping. Then midterms, then working. Sorry!

Do you drag-and-drop to a folder on your hard drive, or to a box on your website, or to something else?

Also, do Crates, as I assume they're called, expire? As in, I can set a folder that deletes files an hour, day, week, etc after they're dropped there.

Both, to-and-from. They don't expire.

Well, those time consuming things is what will make you have users.

So you want users but you don't want to spend time telling them what you offer?

Well, right now we're not public or open and are extremely frugal with letting people in. So yeah, we don't want too many users yet, just great first ones. :)

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