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Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by Prospect »

brettcvz wrote: post #23
Prospect wrote: post #22

Brett, This is great and I would pay to use it in a second if it could handle uploads on the iphone/ipad (something like http://www.aurigma.com/iphone/ ). I just signed up for the developer key. Will you be emailing that list with feature updates/news? Thanks

Good to know re. mobile. Re. email, we'll be trying to limit the number of emails we send out to the lowest possible, but if there's interest we can create a separate mailing list that's higher volume for feature announcements, etc. over the coming week.

Great I'll be following the progress. One more thing I would really need is the ability to remove and order the upload options.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by brettcvz »

overboard wrote: post #33

My biggest fear is I'll use it, and a few months later you're acquired by Facebook and then it's gone.

We can't say this for certain, but what we'd like to do it put it down in writing that if for any reason we can't provide the service anymore, we open-source it. Would this help?

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by liyanchang »

dolphenstein wrote: post #38

Looks neat! However, you won't catch me putting my credit card details into that donations form. You might want to put a paypal button or something that makes me feel a bit more secure about the whole thing.

We thought it would be fun to use Stripe for something. Nothing touches our site.

I guess I don't have much money to steal; I'll look into PayPal for those lucky ones who have assets to protect :D

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by groby_b »

liyanchang wrote: post #37
Udo wrote: post #36

This is an excellent idea and it looks nicely executed, too. I only fear there may be a duplication of efforts in respect to the upcoming WebIntents framework. Do you guys have plans to integrate with it at some point?

We would love to be a webintents provider and it's on the feature list. Part of this is also an effort to spur the webintents forward :D

Hey, intents are moving forward :) (Neat app, btw!)

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by liyanchang »

Prospect wrote: post #41
brettcvz wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good to know re. mobile. Re. email, we'll be trying to limit the number of emails we send out to the lowest possible, but if there's interest we can create a separate mailing list that's higher volume for feature announcements, etc. over the coming week.

Great I'll be following the progress. One more thing I would really need is the ability to remove and order the upload options.

Good to know. Is that something you imagine the developer being able to specify or a user setting?

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

#46

Post by redslazer »

liyanchang wrote: post #43
dolphenstein wrote: post #38

Looks neat! However, you won't catch me putting my credit card details into that donations form. You might want to put a paypal button or something that makes me feel a bit more secure about the whole thing.

We thought it would be fun to use Stripe for something. Nothing touches our site. I guess I don't have much money to steal; I'll look into PayPal for those lucky ones who have assets to protect :D

Considering its aimed at hackers, maybe put a "powered by stripe". That would probably reassure most people in your target market at the moment.

Though if you do end up adding a paypal button try not to use the word "donate", paypal seems to have a problem with non-charities doing this.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by richcollins »

chrislomax wrote: post #21
brettcvz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say we consider it ok by any means. But we'd rather get the feedback earlier than later, so we said screw it and sent it out

I presume your limitations are due to the drag drop file handling on the upload from computer? I did something recently like this and ended up with an ugly "Select file" button when people are in IE. I really hope IE are pulling their fingers out with IE10, it appears they are. We are getting a load of adverts in the UK now on Microsoft products, like Bing etc. It seems to me they are taking it seriously again.

It doesn't support D&D on OS X / Safari

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by groby_b »

Udo wrote: post #36

This is an excellent idea and it looks nicely executed, too. I only fear there may be a duplication of efforts in respect to the upcoming WebIntents framework. Do you guys have plans to integrate with it at some point?

To provide some more WebIntents info: https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Sgyt1a73...

It's a post on G+ showing WebIntents & picking files via pick intent and cloudfilepicker.com (a Picasa image picker).

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by username3 »

liyanchang wrote: post #43
dolphenstein wrote: post #38

Looks neat! However, you won't catch me putting my credit card details into that donations form. You might want to put a paypal button or something that makes me feel a bit more secure about the whole thing.

We thought it would be fun to use Stripe for something. Nothing touches our site. I guess I don't have much money to steal; I'll look into PayPal for those lucky ones who have assets to protect :D

The donate button stays disabled if there's an error.

Re: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

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Post by nicholaides »

brettcvz wrote: post #16
true_religion wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like Imgur with an Aviary plug in attatched to it. The only additional places you're pulling from are dropbox and facebook. Do you have plans to pull from more locations? Also, do you have plans to allow website owners to integrate this with their own site (much like Aviary allows you to integrate the editor you're using)?

Yup, we're planning on supporting a whole bunch, including fancier things like gmail attachments, evernote, etc. Are their clients you'd like? And yeah, you can use it on your site right now. Grab a key and you're good to go

I've wanted a service like this for a while but haven't had time to make it. A few other ways you could get photos from users:

- get a picture from their phone. This seems really important and useful, but I'm not sure the best way to do this. Ideas: 1) let them email it from their phone to a special email address 2) give them a url that takes them to a site that opens up an "upload" dialog Both of these my be accomplishable w/ a QR code

- let them paste in a URL of an image. I've used embed.ly for this. It will take all sort of urls: plain images (rare for non-technical users), Flickr URLs, etc

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