Hey everyone, co-creator of Trunk here. Thanks for all the votes so far! We were stitching together a wedding video for a friend, and realized how troublesome it was to collect disparate bits of digital content from a bunch of people. Existing products are optimized for syncing or sharing, and usually require you to already have an account. So we created Trunk, and it had to be simple - not even a sign up flow made the cut.
As you can tell, this is our MVP. There are a couple of directions we'd love to take Trunk, but at the moment, we just want to hear your honest, brutal feedback. Thanks a lot!
@alexvinogradov4 Good question, it comes up pretty often. Transferring files that
• feature child pornography;
• promote racism, violence or hatred;
• are false or misleading;
• You don’t have the right to copy and/or transfer;
• infringe on intellectual property rights;
• violates privacy rights, including data protection rights;
• infringe on or violate any applicable law or regulation.
are specifically against our terms. You can read more at https://trunked.me/terms.
We simply aren't aiming for that demographic. We are DMCA compliant and if we know of any Trunks that violate our terms, we will remove it.
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@zaizhuang@derrickko Neat stuff guys, couple questions:
1) Have you guys thought about creating a chrome/browser extension for this? Seems that would be most intuitive, i.e. generating and sharing unique links. The recieving party could be notified of all the content shared and download a zip?
2) Its good to see you guys are handling DMCA issues, curious to know how you guys plan to track all the shared content if it gets wildly popular.
@raj_ventures Awesome thoughts.
1) Short answer: no we haven't thought about doing browser extension yet, at least not for this MVP.
The reason is that Trunk is about optimizing the collection of files (eg. for a wedding video) and a web application (not extension) allows anyone with *any* browser to upload/download files.
Although I can imagine that one day down the line we will have an API that allows any developer to create a browser extension for Trunk :).
2) Not sure what you mean by "track all the shared content". Care to elaborate?
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@zaizhuang@raj_ventures Ah awesome, good point. As for 'track all the shared content' - what I mean to say is - If users share a common link with each other to upload content to, what stops them from uploading and distributing illegal content and sharing it. Is there a team that overlooks what content is being shared i.e. large movie files, mp3 tracks, etc.)?
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