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I did some scraping for our startup to get a sense of how stable this new ecosystem is, and wrote it up (with llm help).

Also wrote a little UI for it. https://pradeep.md/skills

I've been using Ellipsis for a few months now. I have zero regrets about paying for it now and likely will pay them more in the future as their new features ship.

For a solo engineer like me who's working in multiple codebases across multiple languages, it's excellent as another set of eyes to catch big and small things in a pull request workflow I'm used to (and it has caught more than a few). I'd argue even as a backstop for catching edge cases/screwups that may lead to wasting my time that it's already more than paid for itself.

@gregw134 Thank you for sharing! I've never worked at Google, but really curious what the engineering context is when you say "needs a launch" in the last line.

promptfoo looks excellent. will be digging into this later, thanks for sharing!

Definitely need it for sales forecasting, and for figuring out what a brand-new click to a website will most likely do.

Use Kicksend to do this now

Kicksend (S1!, Mountain View, CA)

Hiring:

- Android Lead

- Mac Desktop Lead

Email me at pradeep@kicksend if you're passionate about shipping beautifully crafted product to massive international markets.

Whoops, the code samples were inserted into the wrong positions. Fixed now, thanks for letting us know!

Here's a link to the actual app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kicksend.a...

This is being worked on.

Kicksend - Mountain View, CA - H1B welcome

At Kicksend, we're building apps that empower non-technical people to send & receive photos, videos, and other stuff with the people they know.

It's a directly consumer product with a lot of interesting challenges around engineering (how to push large files in realtime at scale), design (we're serious about it), and data-driven, highly measured product design and development.

We're hiring product engineers on:

- iOS

- Android

- Mac Desktop

- Windows Desktop

We're also hiring folks to help with:

- Inbound Marketing

- QA

We're VC-backed and YC S11. It's a very small team, with most folks wearing many hats. Relocation provided to the Bay Area if we decide to hire you.

Read more here: http://blog.kicksend.com/kicksend-is-hiring

Here's a link to the iPhone app itself: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/kicksend/id485429894

ahh. thanks for bringing that to our attention, we'll get that taken care of shortly - you own your files.

Our product is designed for non-technical users. We want to empower everyday people to do things that they weren't able to do before - namely send large files, big batches of smaller files, and easily receive and organize files sent to them by people they know and care about.

Most of the work we've done these past few months was more user-experience than technical, and there's a ton more that we're going to improve as we move forward.

Here's why we're special: Our desktop apps are killer. You can drag and drop a big batch of files in, and we take care of the rest. If someone sends you a thousand files, we make sure those are auto-downloaded, and display them in a way that's easy to browse. Since you're on HN and used to things like Dropbox, you might consider this trivial or solved, but our fleshed out desktop experience is highly visual and is something many consumers find very, very appealing.

Our webapp has a 3-step interface for sending files to any email which was a direct result of hundreds of hours of user-testing. If you've never done user-testing, trust us when we tell you that it's usually a humbling affair. The last time we were on HN, our product was terrible compared to what it is now. It's only going to improve from here on out.

The mobile apps that we're planning will change things. To date, nobody has a way to take a video on your phone, send it to a select group of people and have it downloaded on all the devices they have connected.

Our backend infrastructure is a lot more generic than most other file-sharing services, which enable us to cook up slicker features faster than anybody else.

People also seem to like our customer support.

This was long, hope this answered some of your questions. FYI, we're still iterating on everything, everyday based on user feedback.

It's coming.

We thought it would be useful since a lot of new startups do wind up showing their work on HN before anyone else picks them up. We were trying to show folks what to expect, and the ramifications of getting that kind of traffic coupled with a strong viral loop.

As before, if you want access to the Mac desktop app right now, append "+hn" to your email (ex: email+hn@domain.com)

can you try again? it's hooked up to Posterous, prbly just a hiccup

Thanks for your interest, excellent comments and support! We're still giving quick access to HN users - append +hn when you signup (ex: user+hn@domain.com)

Others feel differently and are compelled to share just to get access since they like the concept enough. We did think about it quite a bit, which is why we removed the 'share to get bumped up in the queue based on your referrals' to 'just the act of telling your friends makes you important to us, and you're marked as a VIP in the db'.

Anyway, email+hn@domain.com gets you access today without having to share.

Hmm, all of those things you described up top are working well for us - can you tell us what version of OSX you're running on? Also what version of Receivd are you using?

1. You can send a file to any email right now - once you invite an email, they'll be greyed out in the sidebar, then drag any files to them as you would with a confirmed user. They don't even have to signup to download the file. You can even add those folks to a list.

2. Interesting point. We'll think more about this.

Thanks a lot for your comments. Can we reach you directly somehow to figure out why you're seeing these issues?

Thanks for bringing that to our attention, gotta fix that real quick :)

Invited! Email us at contact@receivd.com if you need anything at all :)

Also, we're based out of Mountain View (no offices yet). Let us know if you'd like to sync up :)

We don't have screenshots up, but there's also a really hot iOS app in the works.

We built Receivd to not just share files with our friends and family, but to have them share back photos and other stuff with us. Our parents and our friends', for example, cannot understand Dropbox's shared folders, but they're using Receivd to share photos they took with their kids. That's a big win for us.

We love Dropbox and use it everyday, but we feel that Receivd does sharing the way that most consumers understand. For example, people move stuff out of shared folders all the time, which deletes it for everybody else - just a consequence of the tech. We do know that Dropbox is killing it, and as loyal customers we're very happy for them and wish them well.

Thanks for your comment - much appreciated.

We're optimizing the landing page as we go along. The difference is the ease-of-use, and the ability for non-technical folks to pick it up really quickly and get started with sharing files with the people they care about in a few minutes. Not sure if you noticed, but the current landing page is not designed with hackers in mind (we understand we're posting on HN, but technical folks are not our primary audience).

Thanks for mentioning Receivd - we've been in early-access for a month now and are growing pretty quickly. We do support large files, our last test with a 5GB+ dataset went swimmingly, and folks use it to share large photos and videos everyday. You can take a look here at http://receivd.com

If you signup with +hn in your email, we'll make sure you get access right away.

Sendoid - congrats on the launch!

that looks interesting. thanks for the tip :)

If you want to go the XMPP route, ejabberd's mod_pubsub. Written in erlang, newer versions can be either Mnesia or db-backed