Balloon - A drop box for your Dropbox

@uxboy Thanks Michal! We were going for simplicity, but you're totally right as far as how it can get confusing. Thanks for the feedback!

@robinraszka @uxboy Imagine sending someone that link without context.

@gmph Thank you Graham :) Honestly we've been ideating and working on this for quite sometime. Even before the file requests feature ( I believe that was rolled out on Jun 17th). With balloon, its more of custom links supporting multi file uploads. Comes with a nice little image preview too! In the next version, we will be rolling out a password protection feature too. Let us know if you have any other questions!

@gmph Graham, Balloon and Dropbox file requests aren't too dissimilar. Balloon is just a friendlier and more playful 3rd party version of it. But with plans to integrate other cloud services, it will grow beyond Dropbox file requests capabilities.

@gmph Another difference is that Dropbox's File Requests send you an email when new files are uploaded.

@jsngr Supporting multiple third-party services for uploading might be interesting too! For example if someone had a Google Drive folder with photos from an event and you had a Dropbox folder, making transferring between those services as simple as Balloon is now would be nice.

@jenssegers Hmm yeah, I don't understand what it is or does.

@rogerdickey @jenssegers We pushed an update just now that makes the homepage details section more visible. Was that the issue before? Thanks!

@jsngr @jenssegers still doesn't make sense to me

@_jacksmith @jenssegers What can I help clear up?

@datbayev it's not you who would be doing the uploading. You'd share your Balloon with your wedding guests and they upload the photos they've taken of your wedding. Balloon is all about others sending you files directly with just a link

@chrismacho I get what people are saying about the messaging lacking a little clarity, but it's not as bad as people are making it out to be. I knew exactly what it was when I arrived.

@chrismacho Chris, thanks for the kind words! We're glad :)

@evanvar Thank you for the feedback Evan :) We are working on making it more intuitive.

@notrab Thank you Jamie :) We will be rolling out password protection for write access pretty soon. We have made creating and deleting balloons as easy as possible. So once you feel you have received your files, you can simple delete the balloon from your dashboard and the link will be no longer active for upload. Hope that helps :)

@notrab I agree with Jamie. I tried creating a folder called test something and it told me the folder name was taken. So i picked another one, but since i knew this other folder existed already, i just typed it into the url and uploaded .rtf describing how it got there. This should be controlled more so you dont idiots like me uploading random files to ppl's dropboxes. :) Random hash names for the url would be a big help. Great idea though! Love it :)

@_jacksmith It is in fact very similar. But with the opportunity to support more than just Dropbox, Balloon becomes more versatile, and a friendlier and more playful version of it. Can you elaborate more on what you're finding confusing? If the tagline or homepage copy isn't doing it justice, something isn't right. Have you tried it? Just connect your Dropbox, create a Balloon, and share it so that people can send you files directly to your Dropbox, that's all :) Send me something to give it a try https://balloon.io/jordan

@jsngr I didn't want to connect my account before knowing what it does. the example is helpful. So to understand, presently there's actually no difference vs Dropbox file requests, but in the future you'd support more platforms, which would be the difference?

@_jacksmith That would be correct.

@jsngr @_jacksmith OneDrive support would be great!

@dotcomdude Hi Andy! We are here to help you with any questions you have :)