The 4 Kick Ass Features You’ve Been Waiting For
For the past few weeks, our team has been working with many of you to gain insight into your use of Infinit and understand the value you find in the app. We set out on a mission of discovery, and returned enlightened, enthused and excited. What we learned was often surprising and at times shockingly apparent. But what really makes this blog post and the corresponding product improvements possible are all of the amazing people in our community that volunteered their time to engage with us and offer up invaluable feedback.
Without further ado, the 4 amazing features we’re launching today are:
Until today, both the sender and the recipient had to be connected at the same time to exchange files. With this new version of Infinit, if your recipient is offline, we’ll buffer (aka upload) your files, so that when your recipient comes online, he or she is 100% sure be able to download the transfer.
This feature is great for those of you that work with teams spread out across the world, in various time zones, or if you’re constantly on the go and can’t leave your computer behind.
Although we had originally conceived Infinit as an app-to-app way of sending files, many of you have expressed frustration over the fact that your recipient doesn’t want to download Infinit to receive files. So today, if you type an email address in the recipient field and click send, your files will be uploaded and an email will be sent to your contact. When your recipient clicks through to the website from the email, they’ll be able to download the files directly without the app.
If you deal with big clients regularly, we totally get that it’s hard to push them to download a new tool. Or, if you’re a freelancer and you’re constantly cycling through collaborators, it’s time consuming to pitch them to install an app to receive files. This feature will help you be more effective when delivering files. You can rest assured that anyone you send files to is 100% able to access them.
Many of you had never used a drag and drop menu bar app like Infinit. It was silly of us to think that once you installed the app, butterflies and unicorns would guide you along a rainbow to file transfer nirvana.
Inspired by mobile device onboarding, our real-time, step-by-step guide has been conceived to take you through the experience of receiving a file and subsequently your first sending experience.
Before today, if you were offline, you would be completely unaware if a friend or colleague was trying to send you a file. If you were logged in, but got up from your seat and missed the desktop notification, you might not notice the subtle change from black to red of the menu bar icon.
In order to keep you in the loop, and avoid destroying your desktop’s interface by adding more Infinit logos every which where, we opted for email reminders. If you’re offline, you’ll get one email for each transfer sent to you. If you’re online, but missed a transfer, we’ll send you a recap of your pending transfers at the end of the day. Nobody likes being bombarded by emails, so we’ve conceived this with as little intrusion to your inbox as possible.
We hope you enjoy the new Infinit. If you do experience any bugs or issues, let us know by tweeting @infinitdotio or sending a message to [email protected]. We’ll be quick to respond. Over the next couple weeks, we’ll also be refining these new features, to make your experience even more silky smooth!
