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Show HN: Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads

83 points by liyanchang 14y ago

brettcvz 14y ago
With one line of HTML, you can pull a photo from dropbox, convert and resize it, and dump it into your S3.
- chaselee 14y ago
  It really is easy, took like 5 seconds yesterday
  - liyanchang 14y ago
    Yup. We always thought that implementing drag drop uploads, even with jquery plugins, took way too much time and effort. Plus we do cool stuff, like download acceleration by splitting files up and uploading in parallel.
fredsters_s 14y ago
Awesome! How does this service just keep getting better and better? They are really able to focus on building an awesome product!
- brettcvz 14y ago
  Wow! Thank you - let us know if there is anything more we can do.
  - mamcx 14y ago
    I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while. Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. For example, if I expect that the majority of the files come from the user PC, then this will be the default, and the other sources optional. As stand today, everything look equal and could be confusing
    - kevinsimper 14y ago
      I thought the same. They should be grey'ed out, so they seems optional, but keep up the good work!
ernestipark 14y ago
I really wish I had your S3 upload feature a few weeks back. Right now I get users to select a file to use as their profile picture. Then I save the file locally to my server, upload it to S3, then delete the local file. Huge PITA.
- liyanchang 14y ago
  We actually do direct S3 uploads. Ping us offline and we'll get you set up.
  - ernestipark 14y ago
    Oh, yeah I know. I just didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was doing something manually and it sucks. This makes it a lot easier :).
- bitsweet 14y ago
  another solution to that problem is avatars.io
SnaKeZ 14y ago
Awesome service! Congrats Liyan. In the past i hated develop the "upload-code", now with your service it's really easy: just one html line.
thinkzig 14y ago
This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at multiple sizes? I couldn't see a way to do this in your API docs.... or else I'm just reading it wrong. Congrats and keep up the great work.
- liyanchang 14y ago
  We currently allow you to resize on the fly. Preconfigured conversion is coming soon :D. Actually, feel free to ping me on olark (on the site) or liyan@filepicker.io as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer about some details.
  - jokull 14y ago
    Please implement these as derived files in subdirectories. That is; keep the original as is, and allow chained processors in any order with user specified "handles". The handles are subdirectories but filenames are otherwise the same, except for the extensions that may be updated by the processor in a predictable way. So if a user uploads a TeX file, processors can be added for /random-file.tex "preview"=PNG+Resize(200x400) - /preview/random-file.png "pdf"=TeX-2-PDF(Bicubic=True) - /pdf/random-file.pdf Sorry for using a HN thread for this :) And I realize this is a lot of work. Your service looks very promising.
pgrote 14y ago
I hate to ask this ... but is there a graceful fallback for IE7 clients?
- brettcvz 14y ago
  Yup - drag-drop disappears on IE but the Cloud upload still works
startupmum 14y ago
This is the first time I am coming across this, and I wonder if it works on mobile (saw the webcam feature on the site). Also, as an sdk, integration to mechanical turk would be great so you could workflow it through moderation. Also, document format conversion (not just images) would be great if you piped them through Google drive somehow...
- brettcvz 14y ago
  We have full native mobile SDKs as well for iOS and Android. Turk and Gdrive conversion are neat ideas - thanks!
jarin 14y ago
Oh god, I just finished integrating Filepicker.io with a client site and I was thinking "man, it would be great if the button showed an indicator that it was done uploading". I think I'm in love with you guys.
- liyanchang 14y ago
  Happy customers make me happy.
BryanB55 14y ago
Looks good. We'll be implementing something with filepicker.io in about 2 weeks. How can you make the "pick file" button open and default to "my computer" each time it opens? Or, even better is there anyway to simply embed the pop up window in a page and eliminate the need to open a modal or pop up?
- liyanchang 14y ago
  You can specify COMPUTER as the first (and only service) if you wish. http://jsfiddle.net/filepicker/gJ8yE/ http://jsfiddle.net/filepicker/gJ8yE/ We're also looking for beta testers with our embed. Contact me at liyan@filepicker.io and we'll get you set up.
sirwanqutbi 14y ago
Whats your technology stack for this? Is it NodeJS?
- liyanchang 14y ago
  We're a Python shop; Flask as the framework, Mongo as the DB, hosted with AWS, hand-rolled JS on jquery.
  - codegeek 14y ago
    3 cheers for Flask. always wondered if flask is slowly picking up market share like django (even though it is a micro-framework compared to django)

83 points by liyanchang 14y ago

brettcvz 14y ago

With one line of HTML, you can pull a photo from dropbox, convert and resize it, and dump it into your S3.

chaselee 14y ago
It really is easy, took like 5 seconds yesterday
- liyanchang 14y ago
  Yup. We always thought that implementing drag drop uploads, even with jquery plugins, took way too much time and effort. Plus we do cool stuff, like download acceleration by splitting files up and uploading in parallel.

fredsters_s 14y ago

Awesome! How does this service just keep getting better and better? They are really able to focus on building an awesome product!

brettcvz 14y ago
Wow! Thank you - let us know if there is anything more we can do.
- mamcx 14y ago
  I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while. Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. For example, if I expect that the majority of the files come from the user PC, then this will be the default, and the other sources optional. As stand today, everything look equal and could be confusing
  - kevinsimper 14y ago
    I thought the same. They should be grey'ed out, so they seems optional, but keep up the good work!

ernestipark 14y ago

I really wish I had your S3 upload feature a few weeks back. Right now I get users to select a file to use as their profile picture. Then I save the file locally to my server, upload it to S3, then delete the local file. Huge PITA.

liyanchang 14y ago
We actually do direct S3 uploads. Ping us offline and we'll get you set up.
- ernestipark 14y ago
  Oh, yeah I know. I just didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was doing something manually and it sucks. This makes it a lot easier :).
bitsweet 14y ago
another solution to that problem is avatars.io

SnaKeZ 14y ago

Awesome service! Congrats Liyan. In the past i hated develop the "upload-code", now with your service it's really easy: just one html line.

thinkzig 14y ago

This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at multiple sizes? I couldn't see a way to do this in your API docs.... or else I'm just reading it wrong. Congrats and keep up the great work.

liyanchang 14y ago
We currently allow you to resize on the fly. Preconfigured conversion is coming soon :D. Actually, feel free to ping me on olark (on the site) or liyan@filepicker.io as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer about some details.
- jokull 14y ago
  Please implement these as derived files in subdirectories. That is; keep the original as is, and allow chained processors in any order with user specified "handles". The handles are subdirectories but filenames are otherwise the same, except for the extensions that may be updated by the processor in a predictable way. So if a user uploads a TeX file, processors can be added for /random-file.tex "preview"=PNG+Resize(200x400) - /preview/random-file.png "pdf"=TeX-2-PDF(Bicubic=True) - /pdf/random-file.pdf Sorry for using a HN thread for this :) And I realize this is a lot of work. Your service looks very promising.

pgrote 14y ago

I hate to ask this ... but is there a graceful fallback for IE7 clients?

brettcvz 14y ago
Yup - drag-drop disappears on IE but the Cloud upload still works

startupmum 14y ago

This is the first time I am coming across this, and I wonder if it works on mobile (saw the webcam feature on the site). Also, as an sdk, integration to mechanical turk would be great so you could workflow it through moderation. Also, document format conversion (not just images) would be great if you piped them through Google drive somehow...

brettcvz 14y ago
We have full native mobile SDKs as well for iOS and Android. Turk and Gdrive conversion are neat ideas - thanks!

jarin 14y ago

Oh god, I just finished integrating Filepicker.io with a client site and I was thinking "man, it would be great if the button showed an indicator that it was done uploading". I think I'm in love with you guys.

liyanchang 14y ago
Happy customers make me happy.

BryanB55 14y ago

Looks good. We'll be implementing something with filepicker.io in about 2 weeks. How can you make the "pick file" button open and default to "my computer" each time it opens? Or, even better is there anyway to simply embed the pop up window in a page and eliminate the need to open a modal or pop up?

liyanchang 14y ago
You can specify COMPUTER as the first (and only service) if you wish. http://jsfiddle.net/filepicker/gJ8yE/ http://jsfiddle.net/filepicker/gJ8yE/ We're also looking for beta testers with our embed. Contact me at liyan@filepicker.io and we'll get you set up.

sirwanqutbi 14y ago

Whats your technology stack for this? Is it NodeJS?

liyanchang 14y ago
We're a Python shop; Flask as the framework, Mongo as the DB, hosted with AWS, hand-rolled JS on jquery.
- codegeek 14y ago
  3 cheers for Flask. always wondered if flask is slowly picking up market share like django (even though it is a micro-framework compared to django)