As an independent filmmaker. One of my films had gotten into a film festival and the festival needed me to send a downloadable copy of my film. There was just a little problem. Even though my film file size was around 2G, internet is slow in this part of my world. Of Course I had no choice but I was wrong if this was my only problem. I immediately decided to use WeTransfer for obvious reasons. I uploaded my film ( if the film size was more than 2G, that would have been another problem because it meant I would have to upgrade to a paid plan to send my film), got the download link and emailed it to the festival.
9 days later, the festival reached out and said I had to resend the film as my download link had expired! The truth is that this was the 4th time this particular thing had happened to me and I just wondered what it would cost the known file transfer platforms to give a little more latitude for the basic subscriber. I decided to build a better alternative. And so the idea for MiDrive Transfer was born.
Less than a month later, MiDrive is live!!! Give it a spin and honestly tell me what you think about it. transfer.midrive.io
Nice! So it's WeTransfer with a longer expire limit?
UI is great. Hope it does well.
Very correct. It's a WeTransfer alternative with not just longer expire limit but all other features that are premium features on WeTransfer are free.
Glad you liked the UI.
Good job. hopefully this ramps up users, let us know how it goes in the next months, I am subscribing hoping to see you succeed :)
Definitely. I hope to begin writing about its progress soon enough. Will be sure to keep you and the community in the loop. Thanks for the believe!!
Hi Tobi.
Excellent interface, btw, how you'll handle multiple people uploading files without charging them?
Good point. Well, right now, we just quickly whipped up an MVP real quick to validate the idea but we are already strategizing about that. We have quite a few options but mainly, we are considering paid upgrades eg team access, customized links, customizable download pages etc. Glad you love the interface!
Very good! I enjoyed the gif after transfer completed (young kid at soccer match, perhaps) 😂
Hahahaha. Glad you loved the gif.