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Dbinbox – An inbox for your Dropbox
- yefim 13y agoHow is this any different than emailing a file to yourself? And what prevents anyone from uploading large, malicious, or spammy files to your dropbox?
- vidyesh 13y agoThe github page tells you the reason why this was made. https://github.com/christiangenco/dbinbox https://github.com/christiangenco/dbinbox To save your click, this tool was made to answer this. https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525 https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525
- christiangenco 13y agoPrecisely. When I'm on someone else's computer and need to send a file to myself, it's much easier/faster to use this than figure out what email client they're using, ask permission to use their email, etc. Also, with 2-factor authentication in Gmail, it's too much work to log into my own email. When I need people to send me files, I just point them to my dbinbox URL and I see the file pop up in my dropbox as soon as they send it.
- prutschman 13y agoSome email accounts have inconveniently small maximum attachment sizes. An optional password prevents people from uploading unwanted files.
- dalore 13y agoEmailing files are generally a bad idea as it clogs up the email servers. Better to email a link to a file.
- hayksaakian 13y agoAlmost like an actual drop box
- LeoHexspoor 13y agoI really like the idea but I also have some concerns about people uploading random files to your dropbox. The idea with the password/access token is a good first step but I was surprised to see the password in plaintext in the url after you login... Besides that it looks someone claimed your signin page as a username.
- ErikHuisman 13y agoDo you mean the access_token en udid? This is how oauth works. It would be nice though if he did an extra redirect after successful connect.
- LeoHexspoor 13y agoNo I mean if you secure your dbinbox via the settings with a password. If you then login to that dbinbox you get the following url: http://dbinbox.com/xxx?password=myplaintextpassword http://dbinbox.com/xxx?password=myplaintextpassword
- christiangenco 13y agoAhh yeah. The idea behind that was that you could just enter the URL with the password and skip a screen. If you'd like to implement a better password authentication system, I'd be happy to accept your pull request.
- mathnode 13y agoeveryday...it's getting closer to a VPS!
- bjonathan 13y agoGreat idea, I was previously using Filestork but they closed a year ago ( https://twitter.com/filestork https://twitter.com/filestork )
- christiangenco 13y agoOh hey! I hadn't heard of filestork. Why did they shut down?
- simonhamp 13y agoFinally! :D Thank you so much for open sourcing this too
- christiangenco 13y agoMy pleasure :D Pull requests welcome! Also if you can think of a revenue stream that isn't bitcoin donations, I'd like to figure out a way to at least cover the monthly server/bandwidth costs.
- jmuguy 13y agoI use airdropper.com for this as it allows me to create one-time upload links. Its pretty odd that Dropbox doesn't offer better functionality here. My use case is being on our clients' systems and servers and in particular I don't want to enter any sort of personal credentials; email, dropbox or otherwise on their system.
- christiangenco 13y agoAhh yeah, but airdropper costs $9/month for their basic plan.
- mrcasual 13y agohttp://dropitto.me/ http://dropitto.me/