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Good question! The idea is to just have a very quick 1 click way to find scripts that you have, Google Drive is more of a general purpose storage, this is spec

Good question! The idea is to just have a very quick 1 click way to find scripts that you have, Google Drive is more of a general purpose storage, this is specifically for scripts and optimized for that. To list a situation where Waterdeep could be easier to use: When you have a temporary file you might need but is messing up your git flow, you can just store it at Waterdeep and access it later or delete it. If you want to do the same with Google Drive, you'd have to create that file inside a folder which can be hard to find. For the case of GitHub, you can easily have your own scripts there and it would work fine, Waterdeep is more so focused on extremely fast access to your scripts without having to create a repository and commit/push the files to it, which I understand it pretty straight forward to do for most developers yet that friction might be the reason why most of them don't have a dotfiles repository on their GitHub account.

nstart 8y ago
I get this actually. It's really niche but useful for the people who'd need it. Nowadays I have a simple alias that opens up a text editor which points to a file inside my ~/.notes folder. That folder syncs to Dropbox. I find that grep works really well for when I need to find something. I can definitely see the benefit of bundling all of that into a much more convenient service.
tazard 8y ago
This sounds really great. I'm on my phone so I haven't signed up, but I plan to when I get to my desktop. Are these files public, or private? A great thing about GitHub gist's is that being public I can just wget them whenever I need them. Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)
- carlosyasu91 8y ago
  > Are these files public, or private? The files will be public and the link to wget the files is already in the roadmap, the links will most likely look like this: http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile. As of now there’s no easy way to retrieve those files with wget > Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?) This is a good idea! There’s no command line tool, I can put together API docs, this is no easy task as the documentation has to be good and easy to understand, let me consider this along with other features that I also had in mind. Thanks for the feedback tazard!
- carlosyasu91 8y ago
  Now you can wget the raw files! They are now public at for example: https://raw.waterdeep.io/tazard/myfile.py https://raw.waterdeep.io/tazard/myfile.py, feel free to check it out!

nstart 8y ago

I get this actually. It's really niche but useful for the people who'd need it. Nowadays I have a simple alias that opens up a text editor which points to a file inside my ~/.notes folder. That folder syncs to Dropbox. I find that grep works really well for when I need to find something. I can definitely see the benefit of bundling all of that into a much more convenient service.

tazard 8y ago

This sounds really great. I'm on my phone so I haven't signed up, but I plan to when I get to my desktop. Are these files public, or private? A great thing about GitHub gist's is that being public I can just wget them whenever I need them. Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)

carlosyasu91 8y ago
> Are these files public, or private? The files will be public and the link to wget the files is already in the roadmap, the links will most likely look like this: http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile. As of now there’s no easy way to retrieve those files with wget > Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?) This is a good idea! There’s no command line tool, I can put together API docs, this is no easy task as the documentation has to be good and easy to understand, let me consider this along with other features that I also had in mind. Thanks for the feedback tazard!
carlosyasu91 8y ago
Now you can wget the raw files! They are now public at for example: https://raw.waterdeep.io/tazard/myfile.py https://raw.waterdeep.io/tazard/myfile.py, feel free to check it out!