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CloudApp is live

20 points by johnthedebs 17y ago

johnthedebs 17y ago
Not sure if they had a part in this, but I found it through MetLab Design's founder/CEO: http://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/11446214489 http://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/11446214489 MetLab: http://www.metalabdesign.com/ http://www.metalabdesign.com/
tvon 17y ago
After playing for a few minutes I'm very impressed with this, and I could easily see it becoming an essential part of my workflow. In short, one keyboard shortcut will give you a shortened URL to share whatever you're currently dealing with. For example, if I select a file in the Finder and hit the shortcut, it's uploaded to my account and a link is automatically added to my copy/paste buffer. If it's a web page, just the URL is shortened and placed in the buffer. There are a bunch of plugins ("Raindrops") to decide what to do in each case, with included ones covering the basic Apple apps (iTunes, Finder, Safari) and extra ones for things like Chrome, Aperture and Photoshop. The whole thing is presented gorgeously.
- johnthedebs 17y ago
  Agreed, I think the best part of it is how well it stays out of the way! History, download counts, and web access to uploaded files sweeten the deal.
aaronbrethorst 17y ago
Very very cool, I just signed up, but I'd feel a hell of a lot better about the URLs for uploaded files if they were big, opaque UUIDs instead of short URLs.
- johnthedebs 17y ago
  The idea behind the short URLs is probably to encourage sharing (like via Twitter). Why would you prefer longer URLs?
  - slig 17y ago
    To prevent stuff like this, I guess: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226313 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226313
    - aaronbrethorst 17y ago
      precisely
    - johnthedebs 17y ago
      Ah, I see.
Qz 17y ago
The register page could use a short "Enter your email and desired password" somewhere on the form. I clicked the link and thought I was at the login page (with login being highlighted in black at the top right). Or just something to make clear that it's the register page and not the login page (I thought the blue register button was a link to take me to the real registration page). I'm usually pretty good with these things, but I got thrown for a loop at first.
- justin 17y ago
  I agree. It took me 30s to figure out what was going on, and I run a web startup.
hristov 17y ago
So is there a Linux version?
newman314 17y ago
Does this have permissions? Or is it intended to be open-sharing? The landing page is not clear.
jazzychad 17y ago
Color me confused. I signed up, downloaded the app (Mona Lisa?) and it's running (I see a blue cloud in my menu bar). I tried dragging/dropping an image on top of it expecting it to upload.... nada. Tried dragging the Cloud.app file to the dock and then dropping an image on that.... nada. What am I missing?
- tvon 17y ago
  Set your login info in the preferences (from the menu bar icon), then you should be able to DnD to the menubar icon, or use the shortcut set in the preferences.
  - jazzychad 17y ago
    Clicking and/or right-clicking the menu bar icon yields no menu. It doesn't even highlight in blue like when I click other menu bar icons. Should it be doing something when I click on it?
    - tvon 17y ago
      I'm seeing a menu when I click on it: http://cl.ly/5jL http://cl.ly/5jL They did just launch, maybe hit up the site for some contact/support info?
    - bdmac97 17y ago
      I'm getting the same thing. Tried redownloading/reinstalling and no love. Had to 'killall Cloud' to even get the thing out of my menubar...
sschueller 17y ago
dropbox?
rrhyne 17y ago
Sexy
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unfletch 17y ago
This looks very similar to Droplr (http://droplr.com/ http://droplr.com/). Has anyone used both? Does either one have a killer feature that the other is missing?
fod 17y ago
boringgggggg - does anyone get new ideas anymore?
jeff18 17y ago
Everything shared on this service (by default, any screenshot a user takes) is mapped to a three character URL. In other words, it would be easy to download everything ever shared using this app. People will not realize this and soon there will be complete archives of every screenshot any CloudApp user has ever taken available on BitTorrent. Some screenshots that were auto-shared will have sensitive info in them and there will be a massive privacy backlash.
- cmelbye 17y ago
  Same thing goes for http://tinygrab.com/ http://tinygrab.com/. I browsed through some screenshots once and I saw a scanned cheque...
niravs 17y ago
If you're interested in putting stuff in Dropbox by just dragging it to an icon as shown here, check out this: Dropbox Droplet http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet Needs to be somewhat polished but it works!
- niravs 17y ago
  To make this work somewhat seamlessly, check out DropZone. It's a pretty cool mac app that allows all sorts of stuff to happen around drag and drop. http://aptonic.com/ http://aptonic.com/ (It has a Dropbox extension as well)
niravs 17y ago
It was extremely unintuitive to figure out how to delete files (you have to hover over the icon, and an x will appear).

20 points by johnthedebs 17y ago

Not sure if they had a part in this, but I found it through MetLab Design's founder/CEO: http://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/11446214489 http://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/11446214489 MetLab: http://www.metalabdesign.com/ http://www.metalabdesign.com/

tvon 17y ago

After playing for a few minutes I'm very impressed with this, and I could easily see it becoming an essential part of my workflow. In short, one keyboard shortcut will give you a shortened URL to share whatever you're currently dealing with. For example, if I select a file in the Finder and hit the shortcut, it's uploaded to my account and a link is automatically added to my copy/paste buffer. If it's a web page, just the URL is shortened and placed in the buffer. There are a bunch of plugins ("Raindrops") to decide what to do in each case, with included ones covering the basic Apple apps (iTunes, Finder, Safari) and extra ones for things like Chrome, Aperture and Photoshop. The whole thing is presented gorgeously.

johnthedebs 17y ago
Agreed, I think the best part of it is how well it stays out of the way! History, download counts, and web access to uploaded files sweeten the deal.

aaronbrethorst 17y ago

Very very cool, I just signed up, but I'd feel a hell of a lot better about the URLs for uploaded files if they were big, opaque UUIDs instead of short URLs.

johnthedebs 17y ago
The idea behind the short URLs is probably to encourage sharing (like via Twitter). Why would you prefer longer URLs?
- slig 17y ago
  To prevent stuff like this, I guess: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226313 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226313
  - aaronbrethorst 17y ago
    precisely
  - johnthedebs 17y ago
    Ah, I see.

Qz 17y ago

The register page could use a short "Enter your email and desired password" somewhere on the form. I clicked the link and thought I was at the login page (with login being highlighted in black at the top right). Or just something to make clear that it's the register page and not the login page (I thought the blue register button was a link to take me to the real registration page). I'm usually pretty good with these things, but I got thrown for a loop at first.

justin 17y ago
I agree. It took me 30s to figure out what was going on, and I run a web startup.

hristov 17y ago

So is there a Linux version?

newman314 17y ago

Does this have permissions? Or is it intended to be open-sharing? The landing page is not clear.

jazzychad 17y ago

Color me confused. I signed up, downloaded the app (Mona Lisa?) and it's running (I see a blue cloud in my menu bar). I tried dragging/dropping an image on top of it expecting it to upload.... nada. Tried dragging the Cloud.app file to the dock and then dropping an image on that.... nada. What am I missing?

tvon 17y ago
Set your login info in the preferences (from the menu bar icon), then you should be able to DnD to the menubar icon, or use the shortcut set in the preferences.
- jazzychad 17y ago
  Clicking and/or right-clicking the menu bar icon yields no menu. It doesn't even highlight in blue like when I click other menu bar icons. Should it be doing something when I click on it?
  - tvon 17y ago
    I'm seeing a menu when I click on it: http://cl.ly/5jL http://cl.ly/5jL They did just launch, maybe hit up the site for some contact/support info?
  - bdmac97 17y ago
    I'm getting the same thing. Tried redownloading/reinstalling and no love. Had to 'killall Cloud' to even get the thing out of my menubar...

sschueller 17y ago

dropbox?

rrhyne 17y ago

Sexy

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unfletch 17y ago

This looks very similar to Droplr (http://droplr.com/ http://droplr.com/). Has anyone used both? Does either one have a killer feature that the other is missing?

fod 17y ago

boringgggggg - does anyone get new ideas anymore?

jeff18 17y ago

Everything shared on this service (by default, any screenshot a user takes) is mapped to a three character URL. In other words, it would be easy to download everything ever shared using this app. People will not realize this and soon there will be complete archives of every screenshot any CloudApp user has ever taken available on BitTorrent. Some screenshots that were auto-shared will have sensitive info in them and there will be a massive privacy backlash.

cmelbye 17y ago
Same thing goes for http://tinygrab.com/ http://tinygrab.com/. I browsed through some screenshots once and I saw a scanned cheque...

niravs 17y ago

If you're interested in putting stuff in Dropbox by just dragging it to an icon as shown here, check out this: Dropbox Droplet http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet Needs to be somewhat polished but it works!

niravs 17y ago
To make this work somewhat seamlessly, check out DropZone. It's a pretty cool mac app that allows all sorts of stuff to happen around drag and drop. http://aptonic.com/ http://aptonic.com/ (It has a Dropbox extension as well)

niravs 17y ago

It was extremely unintuitive to figure out how to delete files (you have to hover over the icon, and an x will appear).