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Comment by wccrawford | Hacker News Reader

Interface looks nice. It seems easy to use. Lack of anything other than a signup form is... Off-putting. Made me wonder if you're just harvesting my email address.

As for the 'sharing' bit... I just give out the url of the file? Can't give out the url for the crate? Can't lock it down in any way, shape or form? If someone guesses my url, they can download my stuff?

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I agree with the "lack of anything other than a signup for is off-putting".

Sorry, but I won't sign up for something that I don't know what is. This is probably obvious, I know, and that's exactly why I'm stating it here again.

We've been busy with features so we haven't had a chance to work with the marketing site. But we understand that and that's totally fine.

For what it's worth, Woobius ran with only sign-up/login on the front page, for about 6 months, before we finally got around to adding some information about what the service was. In that time, being naturally viral, it grew to over 1000 users.

If you hover over the crate name you can copy the URL of that too. We've made the URLs pretty hard to guess but will add further protection later (and welcome tooltips to make sure people know about stuff like this).

It took me couple of minutes to figure out how to copy the link to the URL. You can copy the url automatically to clipboard right after user uploads the files (and display the notice to communicate it) or provide a visual clue to make it easier to find URL copy feature.

Be careful with this. A lot of times I have something in the clipboard that absolutely can't be overwritten. Automatically writing to the clipboard isn't exactly expected behavior.

Oh, smart! Never thought of that. We'll look into a nice way of implementing that.

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