Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading • Hacker News Board

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:16 AM UTC

cyberferret wrote: post #16

kvz wrote: post #2

One of the developers here. We worked three years to make Uppy the best open source file uploader the world has seen. Looking forward to your brutally honest feedback! Happy to answer questions too.

Well done. I remember looking at this project more than 2 years ago and thinking Wow, this sounds great for my SaaS. Because you were still essentially in Beta and there was missing functionality at the time, I went ahead with another solution and meant to keep in touch with your progress, but, as it tends to happen, I got distracted. This post is a timely reminder for me, and I will be taking another look at Uppy wi…

Thanks! Looking forward to see you around!

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by epse » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:17 AM UTC

babayega2 wrote: post #21

Great job guys. I want to ask: does it handle Excel upload and basic editing of the Excel file ? The examples on display only show images upload. Do you guys know such library? Like, the one used by Dataiku for Excel upload.

It supports uploading of any file, but not editing. It's not really an office suite, I think

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:22 AM UTC

dan1234 wrote: post #8

kvz wrote: post #2

One of the developers here. We worked three years to make Uppy the best open source file uploader the world has seen. Looking forward to your brutally honest feedback! Happy to answer questions too.

How did you manage to fund this? Or was it just a side project your team worked on?

The company behind this is Transloadit. We provide tus & uppy for free, hoping that a fraction of our open source communities will use our hosted versions (of companion and tus) and optionally our commercial encoding service because they work well together.

That could make our public coding efforts worthwhile financially. It’s a bit of a gamble. We’re believers/biased in part because we just enjoy working on oss, and in part because we’re quite a lean company and don’t need to make boatloads of money to make investors happy or anything (we’re bootstrapped since 2009, so no investors, and ramen profitable since 2012. Me and my cofounder are both devs and not in it to get yachts, but rather to have nice and rewarding work, basically)

Whether it really also becomes a financial success remains to be seen. 3y of devtime isn’t cheap so it'll be a bit sad if there is no ROI at all, but we'll comfort ourselves with the thought that we'll be able to provide a better and more reliable uploader to Transloadit's existing encoding customers (because going open has made these projects better thanks to exposure to more minds and environments), and making them very happy, even if there’s 100x more people that don’t make us money.

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:30 AM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #30

dan1234 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you manage to fund this? Or was it just a side project your team worked on?

I am not OP, but in the blog post the author mentions he works for Transloadit, which (after googling it as I wasn't previously familiar with it) is a service which handles lots of different file processing tasks for developers (e.g. image manipulation, audio/video encoding, virus scanning, etc.) If you are a service selling a product targeted towards developers, I can't think of better marketing than something like…

Replied to the GP directly about how we find this, you pretty much nailed it!

As for astroturfing: I am certainly guilty of self-promotion. When this post didn’t get traction, after a few days I thought maybe Show HN finds this interesting. In addition, my team of ~5 will have upvoted this post (although that probably works counter productive with HN's algorithms, I couldn’t/wouldn't stop them). Other than that we don’t deploy any schemes here, what you likely see is that, because we exploded on Reddit over the weekend, its users are posting it to HN too.

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:30 AM UTC

nhumrich wrote: post #5

kvz wrote: post #2

One of the developers here. We worked three years to make Uppy the best open source file uploader the world has seen. Looking forward to your brutally honest feedback! Happy to answer questions too.

This looks amazing. And much needed for my org. Thank you so much for open sourcing this!

Thank you for the kind words!

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

craz8 wrote: post #26

I’m using Ruby Shrine in an internal project, and it uses Uppy for the client upload magic We’re not using much of that part yet, but it’s good to know that this is being actively developed Really loving Shrine too!

I don’t know Ruby much but Shrine seems great from what I've seen. I’ve been talking to Janko (its author) and it has been a true pleasure to cooperate with him.

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by dang » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

Nicksil wrote: post #4

Prev. 2 days: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756159 (same ID as prev. post by same user) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759039 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765780

When a story hasn't had significant attention yet, a small number of reposts is ok. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:37 AM UTC

shimms wrote: post #10

Nicksil wrote: post #4

Prev. 2 days: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756159 (same ID as prev. post by same user) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759039 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765780

I check hacker news regularly and this was the first time I saw it. Reposts aren’t inherently bad. I’m glad it was reposted and I’ve now had the chance to learn about it.

What you likely see here is that, because we exploded on Reddit over the weekend, its users have been posting it to HN too. Those posts aren’t mine/ours.

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by kvz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:40 AM UTC

babayega2 wrote: post #21

Great job guys. I want to ask: does it handle Excel upload and basic editing of the Excel file ? The examples on display only show images upload. Do you guys know such library? Like, the one used by Dataiku for Excel upload.

Excel uploads work, and you could edit some basic meta data or rename the file, but changes to the sheets are not supported, if that’s what you mean?

Re: Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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Post by fulafel » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 5:45 AM UTC

wemdyjreichert wrote: post #24

raboukhalil wrote: post #11

Nice work, looks awesome! Curious whether you could use this to upload files directly to google cloud storage without having a server in the middle?

Whether or not this is possible, it seems like a serious DDOS risk. Some one with malicious intent could give you a huge hosting bill. It might be difficult to apply IP-based rate-limiting without a server.

These are valid considerations, but not tied to S3 (or uploading).

It's probably a happy problem if you end up worrying about S3 as a very DDoS-able part of your system.

Running up hosting bills is an scenario that can be addressed with various technical means (like a sibling comment explains). Many people seem to judge the risk * probability too small to put a lot of preemptive effort into it. It's basically a question of how much damage would be done until your monitoring catches it. AWS has also been known to "forgive" bills that were caused by malicious attackers in some situations.