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Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M

92 points by brettcvz 13y ago

2arrs2ells 13y ago
Congratulations Brett, Anand & Liyan! Love the new design.
brettcvz 13y ago
For more information about the rebrand, see http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/53283166185/ink-work-together http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/53283166185/ink-work-togeth.... For all of our customers, we want to thank you for your continuing support, and are looking forward to this next stage in our company's growth.
- dougzor 13y ago
  Congrats guys! Speaking from SurveyMonkey's perspective, we're very happy customers :)
- madisonmay 13y ago
  Congrats, Brett! Keep up the awesome work!
tribeofone 13y ago
congrats. I remember seeing this about a year ago, not sure what they were thinking, clearly they had a vision. Great website too, couldn't ask for a more potent product marketing hook.
nailer 13y ago
Seems reasonable - FilePicking (and multi-source rich media) is, for example, significantly more difficult problem than 'Social Login', yet JanRain's evaluation is probably far in excess of FPIO / Ink's.
prgfan 13y ago
Mobile's becoming increasingly important. If you saw the Mary Meeker slide deck, it's clear that growth isn't abating. It's an exciting space to be, and it's great to have more tooling around the area.
kimar 13y ago
Nice job Brett and team. Glad to see you guys unveiling your vision.
palderson 13y ago
As a user of the product, I love what these guys have done. Although I'd be curious if the end goal is similar to that of AddThis; i.e. selling user data for ad targeting?
- brettcvz 13y ago
  No, we definitely do not want to start selling user data. Our whole goal is to connect the applications and services that people use, making it easier for them to work with technology.
jonny_eh 13y ago
Big congrats! We've been very happy with the service and the support. I look forward to the day when we can graduate out of the free tier :)
- brettcvz 13y ago
  Us too! Let us know if there's anything we can help with
evaneykelen 13y ago
Congratulations to the team. I love Ink née Filepicker, it's easy to implement, robust and their support team (i.e. the dev team itself) is quick and very knowledgable. I would like to pay for the service but my volume is too low to exceed the limits of the free plan (too generous?).
callmeed 13y ago
Congrats on the funding–it's nice to know a service I use has some additional resources. (I usually take this as a sign the company will be around for the long haul, but that might be a bit presumptuous these days). I'm using Filepicker at http://propx.co http://propx.co and we're already making money with it, which is great. The company re-brand has me a bit confused though. The new identity definitely has a creative/design/art bent to it now. Why is that? (or am I just crazy?)
- brettcvz 13y ago
  Great! Let us know how we can help. With the new name and logo, we wanted a brand that could grow with us as we build out more products beyond just picking files. Also, as we invest more resources in the design and user experience of our products, we didn't want the logo to not match the quality of the rest of the design.
- prgfan 13y ago
  From the article: "On mobile, release cycles are different from the web, screen sizes are smaller impacting the user interface design, plus versioning is an important area to address." They're doing tools for mobile. Hence the rebrand. My Objective-C isn't great, but I'm willing to dust it off to try out the new products. (Personally, I'm going to still develop for the web mainly, though. And do mobile apps as more of a intellectual exercise/fun).
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- WA 13y ago
  Quick note: I have a MacBook Air and the only thing I see above the fold is the photo and the signup button. There was no indicator that there's more content and I only discovered it by accident.
  - prgfan 13y ago
    Same here. I've seen some single pages like this use a moving arrow pointing down, as a hint.
dfischer 13y ago
I've used Filepicker.io and it's great. So is the team. Always eager to answer questions and throw ideas around on Github. I do wish there was a little more developer resources on the Framework libraries that integrate with Filepicker (rails, ruby, etc...) Hopefully this seed round can send a developer in that direction.
- brettcvz 13y ago
  Speaking of which, you can now find us on github at https://github.com/ink https://github.com/ink
bdcravens 13y ago
Why does it have a copyright of 2018 on filepicker.io?
- FooBazBar 13y ago
  In five years the world's population suffers a major catastrophe where those with an IQ above 80 die out. This is tech from the future.
proexploit 13y ago
I think Ink/Filepicker is pretty awesome and I set up a demo recently of a user submitted gallery in under an an hour. The one thing I don't like is that the Image URLs are supplied only as filepicker.io/api/(your-image). It makes sense when processing images to crop etc but if I store URLs in my application, I want to store them with the real URL, not get locked in to Ink/Filepicker. I can't find anything in their documentation that allows that. It's the only thing really preventing me from fully integrating with one of my projects right now.
- brettcvz 13y ago
  For some of our larger customers we can CName, also the files are stored in your S3 so you can get direct access that way if you need to.
FooBazBar 13y ago
Wow, YC is a complete and utter joke if they fund crap like this. What person would, in their right mind, outsource something as essential as file uploads? What if their servers go down? The level of idiocy here is higher than Mount Everest.
elamadej 13y ago
That's awesome! Love that team.

92 points by brettcvz 13y ago

Congratulations Brett, Anand & Liyan! Love the new design.

For more information about the rebrand, see http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/53283166185/ink-work-together http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/53283166185/ink-work-togeth.... For all of our customers, we want to thank you for your continuing support, and are looking forward to this next stage in our company's growth.

dougzor 13y ago
Congrats guys! Speaking from SurveyMonkey's perspective, we're very happy customers :)
madisonmay 13y ago
Congrats, Brett! Keep up the awesome work!

tribeofone 13y ago

congrats. I remember seeing this about a year ago, not sure what they were thinking, clearly they had a vision. Great website too, couldn't ask for a more potent product marketing hook.

nailer 13y ago

Seems reasonable - FilePicking (and multi-source rich media) is, for example, significantly more difficult problem than 'Social Login', yet JanRain's evaluation is probably far in excess of FPIO / Ink's.

prgfan 13y ago

Mobile's becoming increasingly important. If you saw the Mary Meeker slide deck, it's clear that growth isn't abating. It's an exciting space to be, and it's great to have more tooling around the area.

kimar 13y ago

Nice job Brett and team. Glad to see you guys unveiling your vision.

palderson 13y ago

As a user of the product, I love what these guys have done. Although I'd be curious if the end goal is similar to that of AddThis; i.e. selling user data for ad targeting?

brettcvz 13y ago
No, we definitely do not want to start selling user data. Our whole goal is to connect the applications and services that people use, making it easier for them to work with technology.

jonny_eh 13y ago

Big congrats! We've been very happy with the service and the support. I look forward to the day when we can graduate out of the free tier :)

brettcvz 13y ago
Us too! Let us know if there's anything we can help with

evaneykelen 13y ago

Congratulations to the team. I love Ink née Filepicker, it's easy to implement, robust and their support team (i.e. the dev team itself) is quick and very knowledgable. I would like to pay for the service but my volume is too low to exceed the limits of the free plan (too generous?).

callmeed 13y ago

Congrats on the funding–it's nice to know a service I use has some additional resources. (I usually take this as a sign the company will be around for the long haul, but that might be a bit presumptuous these days). I'm using Filepicker at http://propx.co http://propx.co and we're already making money with it, which is great. The company re-brand has me a bit confused though. The new identity definitely has a creative/design/art bent to it now. Why is that? (or am I just crazy?)

brettcvz 13y ago
Great! Let us know how we can help. With the new name and logo, we wanted a brand that could grow with us as we build out more products beyond just picking files. Also, as we invest more resources in the design and user experience of our products, we didn't want the logo to not match the quality of the rest of the design.
prgfan 13y ago
From the article: "On mobile, release cycles are different from the web, screen sizes are smaller impacting the user interface design, plus versioning is an important area to address." They're doing tools for mobile. Hence the rebrand. My Objective-C isn't great, but I'm willing to dust it off to try out the new products. (Personally, I'm going to still develop for the web mainly, though. And do mobile apps as more of a intellectual exercise/fun).
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WA 13y ago
Quick note: I have a MacBook Air and the only thing I see above the fold is the photo and the signup button. There was no indicator that there's more content and I only discovered it by accident.
- prgfan 13y ago
  Same here. I've seen some single pages like this use a moving arrow pointing down, as a hint.

dfischer 13y ago

I've used Filepicker.io and it's great. So is the team. Always eager to answer questions and throw ideas around on Github. I do wish there was a little more developer resources on the Framework libraries that integrate with Filepicker (rails, ruby, etc...) Hopefully this seed round can send a developer in that direction.

brettcvz 13y ago
Speaking of which, you can now find us on github at https://github.com/ink https://github.com/ink

bdcravens 13y ago

FooBazBar 13y ago
In five years the world's population suffers a major catastrophe where those with an IQ above 80 die out. This is tech from the future.

proexploit 13y ago

I think Ink/Filepicker is pretty awesome and I set up a demo recently of a user submitted gallery in under an an hour. The one thing I don't like is that the Image URLs are supplied only as filepicker.io/api/(your-image). It makes sense when processing images to crop etc but if I store URLs in my application, I want to store them with the real URL, not get locked in to Ink/Filepicker. I can't find anything in their documentation that allows that. It's the only thing really preventing me from fully integrating with one of my projects right now.

brettcvz 13y ago
For some of our larger customers we can CName, also the files are stored in your S3 so you can get direct access that way if you need to.

FooBazBar 13y ago

Wow, YC is a complete and utter joke if they fund crap like this. What person would, in their right mind, outsource something as essential as file uploads? What if their servers go down? The level of idiocy here is higher than Mount Everest.

elamadej 13y ago

That's awesome! Love that team.