SCOTT KOUE  This is a utility not a fashion accessory! I wouldn't call it ugly and it certainly does look Mac (have you been on a PC lately, looks like they haven't changed the look since Win 3.0). It is not cluttered with cryptic buttons or a lot of eye candy but that is what I want in a utility. The bottom line is does it work. The answer is YES and very well. I will take substance over style any day of the week, however I didn't feel I made a compromise in style.  
(Version 4.2)

SCOTT KOUE  First a short qualifier, I have only used this for a few days and I bought it on a MacUpdate discount. I have Transmit and it's pretty easy to make droplets that do almost everything Drop Chute does so I was a bit skeptical about how much I needed Drop Chute. Well actually I don't "need" it. Transmit's droplets do the transfer and it's not a big deal to archive an item before you post it, and it doesn't usually take too much work to figure out the path to the file. But I have forgotten to zip a folder and that is a bit of a pain, and you have to create a droplet for each place you want to FTP stuff to (with Transmit) and sometimes it is difficult to figure out convoluted paths to files. It's not a big deal but Drop Chute is a simpler solution. And a lot of people are a bit stymied by FTP so something like Transmit may not be something they have. I found having one place to drop files and be able to send them anywhere AND having the compression as a built in function was a very convenient work flow. I still use Transmit and I will probably also set up droplets from time to time but for most situations Drop Chute is a better choice and that's what I will be using. The app has been solid for the short time I've used it and the price was very good. Would I still buy it at twice the price? Maybe, if I did not have Transmit's droplets the answer would be absolutely.

If you don't have a droplet FTP app this is a Great app to have, if you need to deal with .MAC this is a great app to have. But even if you have Transmit (or some other FTP client that can create droplets) Drop Chute is a good app to have.

* note on file paths. Drop Chute attempts to create the path from what you enter setting up the account but with my site this didn't work because the folder I was sending things to was not in my domain. So it's not so much that Drop Chute magically finds the path but that the path can be set for the account and from then on it will generate correct paths to files. This is very convenient. I used to keep a bunch of text snippets around with the paths, and then add the file name.  
(Version 4.2)