I really don't understand any advantages of Crate over Dropbox, which also has file sharing through URLs and folder sharing.
I asked this question the last time Crate was on HN and got a vague response.
I asked this question the last time Crate was on HN and got a vague response.
Person 1: "Hey, send me that file, use this: url" Person 2: "Oh!" drag and drop
All updated in real time (so you could potentially link a whole group of friends something and see them all drop in files for an event or some-such). Perhaps a school trip or something to that extent.
Just connect it to your Dropbox account, send a file request email to the other person, and the files show up in the sandboxed AirDropper folder in your Dropbox account.
It's like magic.
* Nothing to download. * Easy to use. * Its the next New Big Thing.
Dropbox is incredibly easy to use, and "The next Big Thing" is not an advantage.
Not having anything to download is nice, but the side-effect is that everything has to manually be uploaded instead of automated.
An API is great, but I can't think of what to code that would be better than what's available for free.
What's the difference between dragging from one folder to another and dragging from one folder into the browser page? Same amount of effort.
There's a definite use-case for this type of service. Even if you use Dropbox, there are times when you want to transfer files from someone else's machine and they don't use Dropbox.
I do see the use case for non-dropbox users. Unfortunately, I don't think that others not having Dropbox is a strong competitive advantage.