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Box Acquires Crocodoc (YC W10)
- theg2 13y agoI feel like the naming of all these technology startups is finally reaching a point of no return. Out of context, "Box Acquires Crocodoc" sounds like gibberish.
- pyre 13y agoBecause "Ford acquires Visteon" sounds better out of context?
- sgustard 13y ago"Pfizer acquires Excaliard"
- jusben1369 13y ago"Nike acquires Umbro"
- spicyj 13y agoIIRC, Dropbox uses Crocodoc for their online PDF previews. Might get awkward. It's a shame, since Crocodoc seemed way better than anything else out there for doing HTML5 previews.
- adharmad 13y agoI was hoping that Dropbox acquires Crocodoc and use them for online document editing. That would free me from using google docs for anything.
- foolfoolz 13y agoYea they do, wonder how fast they will drop support for it (and build their own)
- rdamico 13y agoCEO of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc's API will remain a stand-alone offering as part of the Box platform, and we're going to be investing heavily in making our service even better! Nothing's going away, and we'll continue to support all of our existing (and new) customers.
- jon_dahl 13y agoThis is the way to do it. Not every acquisition means that customers lose.
- benatkin 13y agoIt is indeed. I believe that their API will remain up and be used by many, but it probably won't be used by DropBox for long. Classy move by their CEO to make it clear that DropBox is welcome to use it.
- joering2 13y agoIs this agreed on, and properly documented? Or is it just your words against Box that very soon will become your owner and can do whatever the hell they want to, including shutting you down (if some insane people are in charge [this happened before]).
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- shaunrussell 13y agoCongrats on creating a great product. Add watermarking please!
- IanChiles 13y agoPDF.js is awesome and works remarkably well.
- infinitone 13y agoDoes it support .doc, .docx, .ppt, etc?
- goronbjorn 13y agoThis is going to sound like I'm trolling you, but pdf.js only supports PDFs. You'll need to convert those other doc types to PDFs before using them with pdf.js.
- shaunrussell 13y agoCan you recommend any tools for this? LibreOffice butchers XLS files.
- replax 13y agoYou can try MS office. If you dont want to buy/install it you can just use the in browser version. All you need is a MS account and you can also export the files as pdf..
- ewang1 13y agoAn alternative is the embedded version of the Google Docs viewer.
- omarish 13y agoCongrats to Crocodoc! They're one of the hardest working teams I know and totally deserve it.
- jf 13y agoWow! Congratulations guys. Very glad to hear the news.
- themstheones 13y agoI wish box had photo synching mobile apps. There was a third party one for Android but it wasn't up to much.
- rdamico 13y agoWe built a special embeddable viewer for today's announcement using our new HTML5+SVG document viewer: http://box.crocodoc.com/documents-reimagined/ http://box.crocodoc.com/documents-reimagined/ We're looking forward to launching the new version of Crocodoc once things settle down on our end. You can preview how it will work at http://preview.crocodoc.com http://preview.crocodoc.com
- calinet6 13y agoHey! Congrats guys! On your blog page -- http://blog.crocodoc.com/ http://blog.crocodoc.com/ -- clicking the top-left logo should take you to your home page.
- zoelle 13y agoThanks for the heads up! Should be working now.
- axiom 13y agoThe service isn't being shut down is it? Please tell me you guys are going to stick around.
- camupod 13y agoIt's not being shut down :)
- whatsup 13y agothe viewer you made for the announcement is awesome! love the ALL slide -> individual slide view toggling
- rdl 13y agoCongratulations. It's great that you're keeping the API and service going for everyone, not just Box.
- _pius 13y agoCongrats on the exit Ryan!
- dkrich 13y agoViewing a document on Yammer? That’s Crocodoc. Looking at a resume in Linkedin Recruiter? Crocodoc again. Reviewing an assignment on Edmodo? Crocodoc. Getting directions from Siri? Not Crocodoc. But you get the point. That statement is funny to me because getting directions from Siri is the only one of those that I've actually ever done.
- nmb 13y agoCongrats, Peter and team! :)
- peterlai 13y agoThanks!
- vyrotek 13y agoDoh. Congrats, but I'm a little worried. We just moved thousands of documents to Crocodoc's platform just a couple of months ago. I'm not really looking forward to having to re-engineer our integration. I should have seen this coming. You guys have a very awesome product. We shopped around for almost a year and used 2 other platforms before discovering and switching to you guys.
- peterlai 13y agoHi there, co-founder of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc will continue being the best platform for document viewing and collaboration. Box is investing heavily in our platform and will make sure we stay awesome. Any updates to the API going forward should be totally seamless, but if you run into any problems, just give me a ping (I'm Peter). I'll make sure the transition happens smoothly.
- fscof 13y agoCongrats guys!
- matthewcford 13y agoIs there an alternative company you can just subscribe to without having to get a call from their sales guys, if not i'll make the call but ideally I just want to sign up and use it.
- swah 13y agoVery sweet. What's the tech here?
- orangethirty 13y agoHow much ?
- visualcsharp 13y agoThe word "experience" occurs at least eight times in that announcement. Come on, folks. They're just documents. Documents don't need "reimagining." We don't want "experiences;" we simply want a product that works well, has great features, a fair price, and from a company that will be around long enough to make our investment worthwhile. CTOs aren't sitting around asking for "experiences."
- bifrost 13y agoWooo! Awesome guys!
- wtf242 13y agocongrats! We use Crocodoc a lot and their API is amazing as well as their support. All our customers have loved it.
- valleyer 13y agoI stopped reading at "Documents. Reimagined.". Is any marketable change these days not a "reimagination"?