Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

I used to use fireftp on firefox before it was broken by some change or other firefox brought in that crippled loads of extensions.

I now open up waterfox on those occasions when I need to use fireftp.

I'll definitely give this a try out if it can do the job instead

If you value time over money, you could also use Uppy in conjunction with Transloadit, our company can handle uploading, encoding, and exporting to S3 for you, too.

If you want to save money then yes, you could configure direct S3 uploading with Uppy, we do have better examples fot that these days (e.g. we now also show back-end code for signing the requests)

However it seems you got it working now so maybe no reason to change?

Uploadcare is a competitor of Uppy's parent company: Transloadit. Fortunately the space is large enough that we don't care for cutthroat mentalities. I think so far both companies has said positive things about each other, and that's a tradition I'd like to uphold! I think their file uploader looks very good and I marvel at their marketing. Their engineering team also looks like they could all be respected co-workers. So a hat-tip to them! I don't think many people will have tried both since Uppy (being recommended for production) is rather new, but I'd also look forward to hearing about experiences with that.

Some differences between the uploader widgets themselves:

- Uppy is open source and can be used with your own back-end. Free as in liberty & pizza

- Uppy is vanilla JS with support for React/Native

- Uppy has resumability (via the open standard https://tus.io) and can recover from browser crashes / accidental navigate-aways. Uploads will just continue where they broke off

- Uppy supports _less_ external sources (e.g. 1.0 comes with support for Dropbox, Instagram, Google Drive, but we don't yet have support for e.g. Facebook, or Google Photos)

Some differences between the companies/back-ends (should you optionally use Uppy+Transloadit to handle the uploading, fetching from e.g. Instagram, and encoding):

- Transloadit offers more encoding features (Uploadcare is making good progress tho, they recently added video encoding for instance). Those features can be combined in workflows. So you leave a JSON recipe ("Template") with us that says: for every video, take out thumbnails, watermark some of those, detect faces in others, store those separately, all in one 'job', or how we like to call it: "Assembly"; because it can be a chain of virtually infinite jobs that take the output of other jobs as input for their own

- Transloadit does _not_ offer a CDN, instead only exports results to storage/buckets you own (not sure if we'll add this)

Just a _few_ differences, there are more. But it seems they are getting fewer and maybe in 5 years we'll be identical companies : ) but yeah so there's some time left until then that we can still afford pleasantries :D

Happy user of tus here. Keep up the good work.

Just curios if this would function as a replacement for sftp uploads. I assume it would need to be put behind our own authentication and https certs. Sftp is very scriptable, but seems hard to explain to many users.

It would be nice if this can function as a point and click upload point and also a scriptable upload point for savvier users.