Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. (opens in new tab)

Looks pretty straightforward. But why use this over, for example, crate? Also, how are you going to make revenue out of it? S3 does cost money.

#edit: Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the file to upload would be nice. Having to launch Finder and browsing to the file I'm looking for, then dragging it back to the browser, can take much longer than just clicking a button, browsing and clicking "open".

A Somalian domain means that I will never use this service: the country is not politically stable enough. Sorry.

It's so beautiful I can't figure our how to use it. I read the about section, which seems to suggest that you should drag a file onto the browser, and then something will happen. I dragged a text file onto the red circle, and it just opened the file in the browser. No upload happened as far as I could tell. I'm using Opera 11.52 and Win XP. Am I just missing the point?

This doesn't seem to work in Opera

Pretty site, although you're entering in a sector with a lot of competition!

I suggest you add Cntrl+V uploading of images from the clipboard; it's a great feature which a lot of sites have overlooked.

Any reason why I would use this instead of http://www.dropmocks.com? Dropmocks seems to upload significantly faster for me as well.

Definitely easy to use, but once I was on the preview page for my image, I didn't see an easy link to share right now. Is the link I'm on shareable? I think there should be a few default sharing options (other than Twitter/Facebook) right on the page: link, e-mail, maybe SMS?

Edit: I see the Sociable buttons that include e-mail, this should be much more obvious. Still don't see an obvious "Copy this link".

I tried to drop an image file. While it correctly fired the dragover event(changed the text to "Drop it like it's hot"), it didn't prevent the default drop event correctly - instead firefox 3.6 just showed me the image.

Instant short-links is a nice idea, especially if you're aiming for the Twitter market.

Progressive enhancement would be good: the background doesn't render correctly in IE9 making the main text impossible to read. That applies to the homepage and the sign-up page. You'll lose potential users who will simply move on.

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FYI. It can take zip files but is limited to 32MB. Looks good. Good luck!

I don't get what makes it better than like a Minus? I would like one of these drop.io replacements to offer encryption or passwords to get to their shared content. Similar to what dropsend does.

I like the notion of prompting the user to drop their files on something evocative (a castle) rather than a cold generic empty box. Good intro UX, clever take on zero-conf.

Is this a neat side project or a potential business? I've run into 50 simple, drag / drop file uploading websites, some (somehow) with funding, like Min.us

The social media buttons to share an uploaded file don't seem consistent. Mail pops up on mouseover, reddit and FB on click. (Using Chrome)

HTML5 drag and drop? Great front end.

Why Castle.so over Cloud.app?

I don’t understand. How are you going to pay for all the traffic?

Any way to upload a file if your browser or OS doesn't support drag-n-drop?

Would've been nice if they told me that before I signed up. Well, you got my email now, let me know when it becomes usable.

Nice. Seems similar in functionality to http://ge.tt/ and others.

Does anyone know of a service that allows for easy upload and management (search, tags etc) of files stored in different cloud providers (S3, dropbox, Google etc, not stored in the service)?

"Castle is our little baby who we work on whenever we have some free time."

Perhaps true, but not inspiring for confident usage.

You should look into putting up a DMCA link sooner, rather than later. New file-sharing sites are often used by pirates.

EDIT: Now found such a link, under 'uploads'. It could be easier to find, under support for example.

Sorry for the repost but the other submission seems to be dead.