December 2, 2009

Senduit

These file sharing services may be falling by the wayside now that email attachment sizes are growing and services like Dropbox and Drop.io are flourishing, but I love the simplicity of Senduit. Especially in comparison to other similar services, such as YouSendIt.

In spite of the delightful simplicity, however, there are still a couple things that could be improved upon. The default expiration should be increased (perhaps to one day, with time increments in both directions). I’ve had friends upload files for me and completely ignore the expiration, and I didn’t have a chance to download the file within the first half hour.

Perhaps a worse offense is the lack of any kind of progress indicator when a file is being uploaded. Once again calling on Mr. Maeda, users would much rather be clued in to how long they must wait. Some people, myself included, would even wait longer so long as the wait time was clearly displayed.

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