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Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by signaler » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer
mountainduck.io

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by bsimpson » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by pupppet » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

For every git project there are probably a few thousand regular folk happily moving files to their WP site via FTP.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by devonbleak » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:45 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

That's great for managing code, not so great for ad hoc management of content/data/files.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

#5

Post by calebm » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:47 PM UTC

I like that it sounds like "Mountain Dew", and think it will succeed for this reason.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by volaski » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:51 PM UTC

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

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Post by CSDude » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

FTP is useful for more than just deployment, just regular file transfers are much more easier and still in use by many.

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Post by a3n » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

There's a lot of legacy in the world.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by pbreit » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

I'm surprised FTP hasn't been built in to Finder/FileExplorer yet.

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Post by benjaminl » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

volaski wrote: post #6

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

I am a happy customer of ExpanDrive (http://www.expandrive.com/) which is very similar, except that it is cross platform and looks like it support more back-ends.

ExpandDrive recently greatly enhanced their product by providing background uploads.