Even multi-file Flash uploaders with progress bar indicators are free and plentiful. My favorite: http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx
The only trick is getting Flash to pass session variables or some other way for the server to authenticate the user.
Done.
Oh, right. No one likes Java. (I'm a little perplexed as to why the author defaulted to the nasty metal L&F).
Try out the link for yourself, though.
$17 does not strike me as a lot of money.
Has anyone used and had success with this micropledge site?
microPledge is only a few days post-launch, so success stories are low in numbers just yet. But of course we look forward to them coming in slowly but surely.
Update: Oh, the Java console shows something about an "UnsupportedClassVersionError".
...It's also slow to load and incredibly clunky. Why, Swing, did you have to reimplement every native widget so that none of them look the way we expect? I think Paul's "no Java applets" remark is on the money here.