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Re: Ask HN: Please review my Mac App

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Nice! This is a perfect little utility for uploading files to a backup server. I regularly post family photos to a remote server via sftp. ExpanDrive has been my goto solution for ease of use, but OneWay presents even less friction. When my needs are a little more complex I tend to hit the command line.

Same here - I can really see myself turning to OneWay instead of Expandrive for a lot of those regular, simple little tasks.

Nice work , nrj.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my Mac App

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I tried your app -- nice app. I like the idea.

A suggestion: One thing would be nice is the ability to have the url of the file copied into the clipboard once the file is uploaded. Like with TinyGrab, when you take a screenshot and it uploads the image. It would probably mean adding a new textfield (for the base url) in the form for adding a new bookmark. Might be useful for sharing files that you just uploaded.

Edit: i didn't think about when you upload multiple files, though. Maybe it would be the last file uploaded?

Re: Ask HN: Please review my Mac App

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For those who have just purchased Transmit 4, it has been overhauled with many Applescript additions. Using that on Snow Leopard, it would be very easy to create your own contextual items with Automator.

That being said, if I didn’t already have a nice FTP solution, this would be a great little app.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my Mac App

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post #6

Nice! This is a perfect little utility for uploading files to a backup server. I regularly post family photos to a remote server via sftp. ExpanDrive has been my goto solution for ease of use, but OneWay presents even less friction. When my needs are a little more complex I tend to hit the command line.

I use it for this as well. I've also been thinking about adding support for a one-directional rsync.

If you were to add a "rsync to" context item to a folders ctrl-click, you'd officially be my hero.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my Mac App

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Good show mate. I was using cyberduck for something just like this usecase and was getting annoyed at how many clicks it took to upload a couple files many times and thinking to myself I should fork it and add in my usecase to cyberduck. I will be watching this.
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