Curious about business model. I'm sure that services like rapidshare could be profitable (bad interface, worsen service for free users etc), but it not so clear how to get profitable such service with so strait forward interface.
Other file-sharing service with simple interface that I've tried to use was filesavr.com but after some time it became very unstable.
They make a big deal about saving you time because you have "better things to do", but then their "Tell me more" presentation wastes loads of your time making you click multiple times without actually telling you anything of substance!
Yeah, we could do SO much with that presentation. It was put together very fast because people didn't understand what we do. And you know what? They still don't :) We're working on it as we speak, and sometime next week we're presenting a completely different front page.
As a test to what we do, try sharing 30 random audio and video files. Then immediately open the Ge.tt link in another browser (or another computer). You can choose any file you want and start streaming or downloading the file. It does not need to be uploaded first. Also, does not need flash or java.
You guys should absolutely explain that. It would help, as well, to explain that you can share multiple files in a single URL. I'm writing up ge.tt on The Next Web right now. Any chance you guys have a monetization plan? If you don't want to share it here, email me quickly please - brad@thenextweb.com
Even after seeing "Tell me more" flash, I don't think people will still be able to appreciate all your services. Maybe you can come up with some promotional videos on the line of 'google voice', 'google priority inbox'(i know, its all google, but they make their videos really good).
Actually, a few days ago I presented Ge.tt for an event called Demoday. With a small demo, which wasn't more than a screencast, they all seemed to get it (pun intended) very fast. And the feedback was extremely good. So, for a starter we'll probably do just that - a screencast.
One little thing: On the right sidebar, before your first upload, it says:
Free account
Shares live longer
Live statistics
create account
I'm pretty sure that is supposed to mean that shares live longer and you get live statistics if you have an account, but I think it reads the other way around: Free account means that your shares lives longer.
Yes. To be precise - I didn't visually connect them. The following text layout:
Free account
X
Y
create account
(especially with the design on ge.tt) looks to me like: "Free account has feature X and Y - create an account to remove these". Looking at the values for X and Y, that couldn't be what you meant, but it took a second for me to realize. Maybe it's just me...
(I like the text better once you've uploaded something. Then there is a header with "Create an account and get access to:")
Ahh, hehe, never thought about it like that :) I see what you mean.
We'll update the front page in a not so long time, and then we'll think more about it. To be honest we think that we need to work on being more to the point. Which is what we're doing now.
Mac users, it seems to me, wouldn't get any use out of this. Cloud App does the same thing but is on my local machine so I don't have to go to a website. Could be handy for Windows and Linux users I suppose. Am I missing a bigger picture?
I believe you are. Its not backup, its sharing. One stop file sharing versus having to choose sharing sites by file type e.g.[picture:twitpic,video:twitvid,vid-pic:flickr,pdf:scribid,slide:slideshare,...]
I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.
At one we had it announced on the page, but then people complained that they couldn't do it in their browser - because they used one that didn't support it. We'll probably put it back in somehow. We'll think about it.
The security is being reworked and rethought and https would most likely be implemented soon. We've looked into it already so it's not entirely new to us.
everything is shared under the ge.tt (domain's root name can't be a CNAME). you obviously think you won't need a content delivery network at scale, do you?
We've been working a lot with the scaling technique, and even though we are doing ok for now, we're reworking a lot of the backend. Not sure when, but it'll be rolled out.
Curious about business model. I'm sure that services like rapidshare could be profitable (bad interface, worsen service for free users etc), but it not so clear how to get profitable such service with so strait forward interface.
Other file-sharing service with simple interface that I've tried to use was filesavr.com but after some time it became very unstable.