Show HN: SendToMyCloud – A Public Inbox for Your Dropbox and Google Drive
sendtomycloud.com
sendtomycloud.com
I created this app to give guests at my wedding an easy way to send us the photos and video they took at the wedding. Email wasn't good enough, lots of people are non-technical and don;t use Dropbox/Google Drive themselves, so this seemed like a natural solution.
It's been alive for a little over a week, so I thought now would be the time to promote it on HN.
Thanks for inspiring me throughout the years, HN! I've been here more than 2500 days (woah...), and finally created something I hope to turn into a business. :)
As for pricing model, I think the professional/enterprise is fair, but the $10/mo for Basic seems a bit steep: It would prevent me from using it for FOSS or volunteer purposes, whereas I would be more willing to pay $5/mo for such purposes.
Good work.
Sign up, use the contact form on the site, and we'll discuss.
Thanks for the feedback and your interest!
How does the app access my account without giving my friends rights to my account and without me being logged in?
The app used Dropbox and Google Drive's OAuth permissions, which assigns SendToMyCloud a token, which we use to add files to your account. We don't read from your account at all, and your users are only given write access, through our web form. Your users don;t have access to view your files.
The Demo inbox that is linked from the home page uses my personal Dropbox account, if you want to see what your users would see.
I get that there are less savvy people who would want something like this because they can't code their own thing or don't have anything to run a website which would do this. However, $10 (lets be fair, if people need files under 20mb only, they are just going to use email) seems quite expensive for a simple service like this.
What I mean to say is, this seems like the kind of thing people only would use occasionally, to ask for files from people, right? $10/month seems quite excessive for that. Feel free to prove me wrong though, if you've already thought about that. (I'm just curious because I know that I couldn't justify $10 per month personally).
For the free plan, you state on the website that it has a 20MB file limit, what is the total bandwidth/transfer limit though?
Also, how does it handle malicious files? It shouldn't people to upload potentially malicious files onto the user's cloud, which is basically directly onto their computers.