Thanks for the comments, I appreciate them.

To answer your question about who are target customers are, we’re aiming at people who deal with large files: photographers, musicians, film makers, designers and architects.

Based on the 1000+ signups we’ve had in the past few days, I’d say there’s quite a few of them out there

Regarding why we’re better then yousendit.com:

1. Yousendit.com doesn’t let you know if the recipient has picked up your file

2. Yousendit.com doesn’t have an upload bar to indicate how much longer you have to go

3. With DropSend, you can also store files in your own online storage area

4. With DropSend, you can re-send files you’ve already sent before, and not have to upload them.

5. The DropSend desktop tool allows you to simply drag-n-drop a file, to send it

Who’s the market?

It’s either nerds, who ARE in the market for FTPing big files, but are more than capable of knocking this stuff together in an afternoon - or it’s for non-nerds.

But the thing about non-nerds is that they don’t spend a lot of time zipping massive files around the globe.

So are they attacking the market that doesn’t need it, or the market that won’t use it?

Good luck to them, but I don’t see that it’s anything other than a very niche app. As soon as the market’s worth having, google and yahoo will add it as a feature on their email clients. Until it is, it’s ain’t worth having.

I completely get what you’re saying, but then I’d also probably be correct in saying that you’re a geek, if not a little bit? Sounds like you’ve got good technical knowledge, and that you’re not afraid to dive right in and set things up yourself. That said, I don’t think DropSend is aimed specifically at you, but rather those folk who either don’t have the tech knowledge, or the time, to set something like that up and then run with it…

So does that mean you’re a Subversion / WebDAV guy? Mmm… erm, I’m looking for someone like that