Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by songzme » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:56 PM UTC

Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
site44.com

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by guylhem » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:25 AM UTC

Something I have been doing at home since I got my hand on the command line client - but the idea to commercialize the package is just great !

Hosting has become a commodity - but you can sell ease of use - especially if publishing a website is a dropbox drag'n drop away.

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by anandkulkarni » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:28 AM UTC

Doesn't Dropbox impose transfer limits? I've seen public items hosted in Dropbox become popular and then quietly inaccessible as more people tried to reach them.

Perhaps that's not the use case that's intended here?

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by idunno246 » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:30 AM UTC

anandkulkarni wrote: post #3

Doesn't Dropbox impose transfer limits? I've seen public items hosted in Dropbox become popular and then quietly inaccessible as more people tried to reach them. Perhaps that's not the use case that's intended here?

I'd assume it's getting sync'd to a webserver, so dropbox isnt public

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

anandkulkarni wrote: post #3

Doesn't Dropbox impose transfer limits? I've seen public items hosted in Dropbox become popular and then quietly inaccessible as more people tried to reach them. Perhaps that's not the use case that's intended here?

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Post by piokuc » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:35 AM UTC

Nice. I haven't even checked advanced features links, but I imagine it wouldn't be difficult to copy the files to a more suitable cloud storage if dropbox transfer limits become an issue.

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by johns » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:43 AM UTC

idunno246 wrote: post #4

anandkulkarni wrote: post #3

Doesn't Dropbox impose transfer limits? I've seen public items hosted in Dropbox become popular and then quietly inaccessible as more people tried to reach them. Perhaps that's not the use case that's intended here?

I'd assume it's getting sync'd to a webserver, so dropbox isnt public

Exactly. Site44 only uses Dropbox for the sync, then serves out the site over its own infrastructure.

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by sjmulder » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

I used to work with a guy who built something similar: http://droppages.com/

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Post by RDDavies » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:55 AM UTC

Cool idea. Homepage needs tweaked for iPad. Content pushed to absolute edges with 0 margin.

Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites

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Post by darren » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 12:56 AM UTC

https://harp.io/ is doing something similar as well.