The company has already raised $900k to accomplish its goal of sharing files the fastest. Eventually he’d like to build a Minbox feature that allows recipients to browse inside a zip file without having to open it, so you can manage these sorts of files on your phone. If Dropbox is your favorite photosharing app, you understand how useful this is. Mimran concedes that Dropbox handles storage better anyways: “We’re about the ‘Send’!”Įschewing the idea of shared folders, Minbox does okay on the “Receive” part of the equation as well, with email notifications when something is sent to you and a mobile and desktop view that allows you to visually scan through sent photos in a grid format, even when RAW files, even without a Minbox account. He plans on eventually charging users for any file storage beyond 30 days, which highlights that the startup wants to focus on file sharing and not storing. The product, which began its life as a Mailbox-esque smart iOS email client, is free no matter how large the files you’d like to send are: “GoPro users love Minbox!” Mimran says. “We all send files on a daily basis and believe there are still too many pain points associated with the process - we’re focused on easing that pain.” Mimran maintains that Minbox’s “killer feature” is the ability to share a file by right-clicking on it, a functionality that Dropbox recently axed. ![]() “The cloud-storage space is focused on ‘backup’ and ‘sync’, but a large component is neglected… that’s ‘send’,” says Mimran, whose background is in product and design, where speed of sending files is acutely important. I think I might have to pay it so the option to share isn’t grayed out, like below. ![]() While YouSendIt does have a Mac app that ostensibly makes file sharing from your desktop easier, I’ve yet to figure out how to send a file from the app. “We use multi-thread file uploading, we compress files, and a host of other things.”Īlthough Mimran has no data for YouSendIt, Minbox is by default faster from this user’s perspective - YouSendIt basically forces you to log in to the web version to send something, makes you copy/paste your recipient’s contact information and, if you want to send a file larger than 50MB, you’ll have to plunk down $9.99 per month. “Our main speed difference is that we upload direct to S3 from the client,” says Mimran. According to Minbox founder Alexander Mimran, the service is twice as fast as Dropbox for uploading and sharing files (you don’t have to wait for the file to upload to send). The app allows Mac users to send files directly from their desktops - either through attaching the files or through a very simple drag-and-drop feature through the Minbox icon in the top-right corner.Īs you can probably tell from the demo video above, Minbox hopes to gain traction in the file-sharing space through being faster and more nimble than competitors. Mac app Minbox launches to the public today, attempting to differentiate itself from competitors through speed and ease of use.
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