Show HN: JustBeamIt v2.0 - file transfer made easier
justbeamit.comJustBeamIt is great, but why are you posting this again now?
A Lifehacker article[1] about it was posted a year ago, and you even posted it on HN[2] a year ago.
we just released an updated version and wanted to tell the world about it
Do you have a changelog or something? What's different?
no, we don't have a changelog. with the new version comes a new redesign, much better browser support, a new back-end architecture that is not visible to the users but makes for improved experience, progress updates for both ends of the transfer, better notifications during the transfer, and the most important feature... multiple file transfer
I think the "v2.0" part of the title addresses why it was posted again.
I put that up after the comment to make it more clear ;)
Was this made at the LinkedIn hack day last year? I think I remember seeing this when I was there.
EDIT: Yes http://twitter.com/JustBeamIt/status/124645928228495360
Yup! It was born at the first annual LinkedIn intern hackathon last summer :)
Sweet, glad to see you're still going through with it! I think other than that crazy WebGL game, you guys got the most props from James Gosling.
thanks! it was incredible to hear James Gosling say good things!
Very cool idea - you might want to make it a bit clearer that the sender has to keep the window open (initially I assumed it simply wasn't loading because of technical issues).
Also a loading gif or something. The pages makes it look like nothing is happening. There is no progress indicator.
there are progress updates, but only after the file begins transferring. also, we can't show you progress in IE, so we just show an animated spinning gif (only in IE)... what browser are you using, and at which step in the process do you feel that we're lacking progress updates?
I was using chrome and nothing was moving or updating so I just left (got a warning that something was happening though)
thanks for the suggestion! we'll put up some kind of notification to remind you to keep your browser window open
Didn't work for me - Dragged file (jpg) using Chrome (Version 22.0.1229.94 m) opened link in IE 9 (9.0.8112.16421). Went to 100% on chrome once link was opened then just stuck on "waiting for response from justbeamit.com" in IE. Seems like a cool idea.
you might have to enable file downloads in your security settings in IE... have you tried using non-IE browsers? if it works for you with another browser, then the issue must be a security setting in IE (which is something I've had to manually enable when I was testing this out)
Awesome! Most of the file transfer sites I've used before required uploading the entire file before letting you download anything. The ability to stream is a big plus.
Is there a limit to file size?
not at the moment, and not planning on putting a restriction on file size :)
Does the data transfer go through your website's servers, or is it direct from uploader to downloader? Is the transfer encrypted?
Thanks!
the transfer goes through our server(s), kind of. all of the bytes do pass through our servers, but they are not stored at all. we are simply a gateway between the uploader and downloader. what you're describing is pure peer-to-peer. the transfer is not encrypted at the moment. we do support encrypted transfers, but we have not turned that on yet
This is a great concept. I imagined doing something just like this as an exercise to practice a new language, but I'm glad to see it's already been done.
Love it.
You're plainly trying to keep it simple, but how about a speed indicator next to the progress percentage?
that's an awesome idea and i hope we can figure it out one day :P our attempts so far have been unsuccessful. if you have any ideas as to how to do this, send them our way!
simple. sweet. easy to use. love it.
:)