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Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by martingordon »

renownedmedia wrote: post #58
martingordon wrote: post #56

Where's the API? Dropbox has a tremendous ecosystem going for it. I'm not sure how prevalent it is on Android, but pretty much all iOS text and PDF editors have Dropbox integration and their new sync SDK is only going to push integration even higher. I can't say I'm a very heavy Dropbox user, so I don't have many complaints (if any) about their offering, but if you want to get into the space you have to address those…

Actually, everything the app does is through a RESTful API. This API is private and undocumented (for now). I can't make any promises as to what we will do with it in the future...

A private and undocumented API doesn't do much for the people who develop or rely on one or more of the several hundred (thousand?) iOS apps that already integrate Dropbox.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by akinnee »

martingordon wrote: post #61
renownedmedia wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, everything the app does is through a RESTful API. This API is private and undocumented (for now). I can't make any promises as to what we will do with it in the future...

A private and undocumented API doesn't do much for the people who develop or rely on one or more of the several hundred (thousand?) iOS apps that already integrate Dropbox.

To clarify, there are definite plans to document and release the Copy API. The only thing we can't make promises about is when that will happen (soon?).

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by autotravis »

faramarz wrote: post #13

Honestly, it's hard to look at this website and have some information stick in my mind. It's gorgeous, but I think the design is overpowering the information flow (or lack there of). That drop section for files is absolutely useless. Why would I drop my file in there as my VERY first step? I haven't even begun to learn about the features before I'm asked to drop my files. Too much design, it looks perfect, but unfort…

"Too much design, it looks perfect, but unfortunately, that's a bad thing this early in the launch."

Whaaa...? That does not make sense to me. The UI is not complicated, so why is it bad that it "looks perfect?"

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by samstave »

renownedmedia wrote: post #58
martingordon wrote: post #56

Where's the API? Dropbox has a tremendous ecosystem going for it. I'm not sure how prevalent it is on Android, but pretty much all iOS text and PDF editors have Dropbox integration and their new sync SDK is only going to push integration even higher. I can't say I'm a very heavy Dropbox user, so I don't have many complaints (if any) about their offering, but if you want to get into the space you have to address those…

Actually, everything the app does is through a RESTful API. This API is private and undocumented (for now). I can't make any promises as to what we will do with it in the future...

Small nit-pick on the About page:

"Share view-only or let people to sync and edit"

Grammar be bad.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by samstave »

vivekrajanna wrote: post #38

Only thing one would excel over dropbox is that create some context aware data to be used without manually searching the whole files. other wise there already far too many service

You mean where I can type in a search term and have it search within the files and tell me which one has that content?

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by samstave »

webwanderings wrote: post #43

The About section does not say who is behind. The only thing you have going for you is your domain name.

Actually, the very bottom of the About page has a link to and logo of Barracuda networks, but yeah - the about page needs a lot of work.

Re: Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today

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Post by ZachWick »

samstave wrote: post #66
renownedmedia wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you read the comments you'll see that someone was able to hunt down the price...

Are you an actual employee or a PR minion?

renownedmedia and I are two of the developers of the Copy product. I can assure you that he is not a "PR minion" - he can sling code better than most.
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