This sounds really exciting, especially thinking about how I can integrate my side project with Hall! Of all the applicants chosen, does the $120K go to each applicant, or is it spread across all the applicants? Or is there only going to be a single applicant chosen?

Thanks for asking... The $120k will be awarded based upon a balance between the number of submissions and the overall potential user impact per idea.

So is the total pool of money equal to $120K, or is it possible that more would be given away depending on the submissions?

The total is $120k. If we wanted more we'd have to talk to our board :)

Also, how do you quantify "overall potential user impact per idea"?

:)

that's an awesome idea and i hope we can figure it out one day :P our attempts so far have been unsuccessful. if you have any ideas as to how to do this, send them our way!

I put that up after the comment to make it more clear ;)

there are progress updates, but only after the file begins transferring. also, we can't show you progress in IE, so we just show an animated spinning gif (only in IE)... what browser are you using, and at which step in the process do you feel that we're lacking progress updates?

I was using chrome and nothing was moving or updating so I just left (got a warning that something was happening though)

not at the moment, and not planning on putting a restriction on file size :)

Does the data transfer go through your website's servers, or is it direct from uploader to downloader? Is the transfer encrypted?

Thanks!

the transfer goes through our server(s), kind of. all of the bytes do pass through our servers, but they are not stored at all. we are simply a gateway between the uploader and downloader. what you're describing is pure peer-to-peer. the transfer is not encrypted at the moment. we do support encrypted transfers, but we have not turned that on yet

you might have to enable file downloads in your security settings in IE... have you tried using non-IE browsers? if it works for you with another browser, then the issue must be a security setting in IE (which is something I've had to manually enable when I was testing this out)

we just released an updated version and wanted to tell the world about it

Do you have a changelog or something? What's different?

no, we don't have a changelog. with the new version comes a new redesign, much better browser support, a new back-end architecture that is not visible to the users but makes for improved experience, progress updates for both ends of the transfer, better notifications during the transfer, and the most important feature... multiple file transfer

thanks for the suggestion! we'll put up some kind of notification to remind you to keep your browser window open

Yup! It was born at the first annual LinkedIn intern hackathon last summer :)

Sweet, glad to see you're still going through with it! I think other than that crazy WebGL game, you guys got the most props from James Gosling.

thanks! it was incredible to hear James Gosling say good things!