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Balloon - A drop box for your Dropbox

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That's awesome, I love the simplicity. Would it be possible for guest to see what's in the balloon? P.S.I encountered some issues with drag'n'drop on Safari9.0 (i had to click the balloon to upload file)
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Thanks Michal! Sorry about that, I'll work on a fix!
I love this concept! All the best :)
Great idea. Simple and useful.
Freaking awesomesauce! Great job team. Suggestions: Some help icons, even if screened back, for those that don't get simple interfaces. An X, esc, or cancel when editing a balloon name. The ability to set expiration (5min, 30min, 1day, etc), upload size limit on each balloon, and maybe even file type, in addition to the password option already mentioned.
Maker
Thanks Kevin, this is all great stuff. We're adding it to the list!
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! Thank you for the amazing response. Balloon is a drop box for your Dropbox. Share your Balloon to receive files, collect photos from an event, and so much more. Files go straight to your Dropbox and accessible on any device. No more signups and no more manual downloads. Jordan and I wanted something like this badly for ourselves to use and then we decided to make it open for all. Our core idea was to make sending and receiving files super simple and super easy to use. The possibilities are endless. A teacher could create a balloon for a particular assignment and share it with all the students. Something similar to balloon.io/Harvard/CS345/Assignment1 It is also a tool for anonymous file sharing. A company can create a feedback balloon and lets any customer share their feedback without having them signup/login. Future updates : Password protection. Multiple cloud services. Try it out and give us your feedback or any feature request :) Or you can send them privately to balloon.io/shiv too ;)
stupid question: do apps who connect to my dropbox have access somehow to my dropbox files? can you read them?
Maker
That's not a stupid question :) And nope! only read/write access to the Balloon.io folder.
read/write access means you *could* read my files no? or did i miss something?
Maker
We only have read/write access to the files in your Balloon.io folder, not your entire Dropbox. We *could* read the files in your Balloon.io folder, but we don't :)
great. but how do i know you won't ? i just have to believe you? [sorry just trying to understand]
I know a lot of people commented on the UX being not intuitive, but I actually really liked it. Super simple, fast, snappy. As far as functionality goes, I don't know that I'll use over Dropbox File Requests for 2 reasons: 1. It feels weird to not know who uploaded a given file (seems susceptible to attack). 2. I really like the notifications Dropbox sends when a new file is added.
Maker
Thank you Taylor :) So, we will be rolling out a password protect feature pretty soon along with a native ios app for managing your balloons. Later versions include expanding to other cloud services as well. Does any of these features interest you ? we would love to know.
Sure, both sound cool. I'd value the password protection first.
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I just needed something like this yesterday! What kind of security protects file transfers? Are they transferred through your servers or directly to Dropbox?
Maker
Thanks Shlomo. We are working to ensure that Balloon's aren't attacked by a singular IP. We go through our server first, then to Dropbox.
LOVE the idea.... but maybe you missed off the explainers? #sadtimes
Maker
I'm afraid some people's issues were that they weren't scrolling down on the homepage, we've just pushed a fix!
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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