Balloon is a drop box for your Dropbox. Create a Balloon, share the link, and let others upload straight to your Dropbox. There's no signup for senders, and no need for you to manually download files anymore.
I've found it a surprisingly easy way to send yourself files instead of emailing them to yourself, etc. Send me something! https://balloon.io/jordan
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The product is very simple.
The communication of the product is not.
(This is something I've built myself for a different vertical, but haven't released to the public yet).
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The onboard process is good, if you essentially write a few words on the balloon creation screen, it'll be less of a 'guessing game' to first time users. Regardless, the concept is super cool!
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Great idea. Nice and clean UI. This is much better than asking people to send files. Can be a clear cut alternative for countless photo sharing apps. (Including some wedding photo sharing apps.. I don't see much value there) You should make mobile apps as well. There got gotta be a way to send notification if someone does not upload files in x number of dates.
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love the simplicity. as a new user I would benefit from text that told me to click the balloon to upload a file. I've used dropitto.me in the past and am glad someone is creating a more appealing experience.
Looks like a neat idea! The new balloon name is confusing as it doesn't accept every character. I agree with @notrab that URLs should be random. Nice UI though even if the background of the balloon on the upload page is a slightly different colour :)
It's a great idea, just not sure for which cases, as my designers and other members of the team already have a Dropbox account, and we all have shared folders to send and receive documents. And to request files from friends, Dropbox already have this feature. I find that the minimalist idea is cute, but it's easy to get lost on what to do next or if what I did was right or not. Also, a recommendation, while creating my ballon I put an uppercase (wanted to write My Ballon), I started writing "M" and it didn't write anything, I thought it was broken, maybe just show it in lowercase :)
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