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Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by nopal »

czottmann wrote: post #30
nopal wrote: post #29

Looks very nice. I don't know why I personally need it yet, but I think I'm going to buy it! One question -- why didn't you use the App Store? Was your decision technical, financial or both? I really appreciate the convenience of the App Store, especially for updates.

Thank you! :D I've scribbled down my reasons for releasing outside the MAS here: http://blog.servus.io/post/37663343570/servus-1-1-grand-stor... Regarding updating: Servus has a built-in auto-updater, so it's easy to keep it up to date.

Purchased.

Another benefit of the App Store is convenience. I don't have to type all of my info into yet another place. Can you get stats on how many people abandon the FastSpring form?

One feature request: resize preview images. My test png wasn't resized for the thumbnail and took a couple of seconds to load.

Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by chacham15 »

thorin_2 wrote: post #22
digitalengineer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the dropbox tool! Most design agency's rely on http://www.wetransfer.com It's free and found a way to show cool ads full screen. We're using our own wetransfer-channel.

Very interesting. Does anyone know what tech wetransfer uses for uploading? I was prompted to use Flash for download, but what about uploads? They don't use a Java applet. Anyone?

Its a POST via XHR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHR)

Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by pasbesoin »

czottmann wrote: post #21
mhd wrote: post #20

Probably a good idea for designers and other people who wouldn't touch a shell script for this. Although that customer base might need a more hoity-toity name than "servus"… (bussibussi.io?)

I don't think that joke works outside of Bavaria. :P Besides, I had the latin meaning of the word in mind, not the southern German one.

Well, that answers my question.

Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by czottmann »

newobj wrote: post #35

I read the copy on the front page three times and still can't figure out what it does. Maybe it's just me.

1. You have a file, you'd like to send that file to someone, but you want to have that file embedded in some sort of preview page. 2. You drop the file on Servus' menubar icon. 3. Servus uploads your file to your Dropbox account. 4. Servus builds a preview page for your file and uploads that, too. 5. The link to the preview page is copied to your clipboard.

Step 4 will either use Servus' built-in preview page theme, or you can use your own templates for that.

Does that help? :)

Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by pknerd »

czottmann wrote: post #36
newobj wrote: post #35

I read the copy on the front page three times and still can't figure out what it does. Maybe it's just me.

1. You have a file, you'd like to send that file to someone, but you want to have that file embedded in some sort of preview page. 2. You drop the file on Servus' menubar icon. 3. Servus uploads your file to your Dropbox account. 4. Servus builds a preview page for your file and uploads that, too. 5. The link to the preview page is copied to your clipboard. Step 4 will either use Servus' built-in preview page theme,…

You should have made the Landing page of it..or atleast content writing :)

Re: Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox

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Post by d2s »

Looks interesting but… could be better if there would be option to choose custom endpoint (like SFTP account).

Certainly understand that from developer's viewpoint it's easier to use Dropbox's app as a tool of file transfer (probably, if I understood it right). Still, just a idea for the future.

(Yes, I have used Dropbox (and still do, from time to time), but don't consider it as a good way for sharing things compared to a nicely maintained web host with good CDN.)

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