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Comment by PedroCandeias | Hacker News Reader

Looks pretty straightforward. But why use this over, for example, crate? Also, how are you going to make revenue out of it? S3 does cost money.

#edit: Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the file to upload would be nice. Having to launch Finder and browsing to the file I'm looking for, then dragging it back to the browser, can take much longer than just clicking a button, browsing and clicking "open".

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Agree on the select button. Drag and drop is neat, but is usually annoying when my browser is full screen.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll certainly add a classic upload page. Also, we plan to have freemium model soon. We also have a Mac & Linux client in the works - just need to find the time!

Alright but what if I'm on BSD and I have a keyboard driven window manager without a mouse?

What I mean to say is, the class upload page is probably more important early on than individual OS clients.

I really do like the design and concept, though.

Drag & drop doesn't seem to work for me (Debian GNU/Linux, dragging from Thunar file manager to firefox). So I second the request for a file select button.

I second the seconding. I couldn't try the service because I don't even have a graphical file manager installed so I couldn't even try to drag'n'drop from anywhere. Then again, I'm not likely to really use this kind of services either since I have my own server which I can scp files to.

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