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Create the future of the Web with Filepicker.io (YC S12)
1 points by brettcvz 14y ago
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Translatr: Document Translation as a Service(translatr.sovee.com)
11 points by brettcvz 14y ago|2 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
We're working on it :D To me, this is a big win for Dropbox but a big detriment to the ecosystem and other storage players. It's essentially like saying "Only works in IE6" - worked well to buy IE lock-in, but was a Bad Thing for the web. W
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Yup, we can handle up to 50Gb (so far)
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by brettcvz 14y ago
I agree - I really don't like the language Facebook uses for this. We need the ability to save photos back into your facebook, which facebook considers to be a "Post". We explicitly turn off notifying your friends, so we don't spam the worl
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by brettcvz 14y ago
We actually got a great looking design all ready to go, we just have to find the time to get around and actually code it up! Figured we'd add the functionality to the core product first before sprucing up our site/marketing side of things
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Awesome! Shoot me an email at brett@filepicker.io and we'll send you a T-shirt
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by brettcvz 14y ago
It's what liyan new best, so figured it would be a reasonable place to start and would be a good template for other PHP frameworks
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by brettcvz 14y ago
We were looking at flask, but weren't sure the best way to make it a "library" - most of the basic functionality can be done via the requests library, for example. With Rails, Django, etc. we were able to build into the ORMs and templating
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Happy to help out - we'll send you a T-shirt too. Edit: Looks like someone already started on one: https://gist.github.com/3203059
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Let us know if there are other backend libraries or plugins you'd like to see! And of course, pull requests are encouraged on the libraries
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Filepicker.io launches Django, Rails, PHP, Phonegap libraries(filepicker.io)
99 points by brettcvz 14y ago|40 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Ha I loved bbcat! 21st century tomagachi. That was another one of the really polished designs that stood out - couldn't remember the name
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Definitely- we're revamping it right now, look for another lessons learned blog post soon
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by brettcvz 14y ago
I love that we have to clarify this on days like today
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Seems like a perfect use for filepicker.io It's self-promoting, but actually it'd be really nice to be able to open files from dropbox/github and save the pdf's when their done. Then I could actually get work done on my chromebook
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An Insider View of Y Combinator’s Boot Camp for Startups(miter.mit.edu)
13 points by brettcvz 14y ago|0 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
I posted this a month ago but it never reached the front page. tagx emailed me about it asking if he could post it and I said it was fine. More distribution is better, right?
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by brettcvz 14y ago
We noticed that a lot of folks using Filepicker wanted features that Aviary had, and visa-versa, so as we move forward we'll be working together to make it even easier to integrate both APIs together. This is just the beginning
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Filepicker.io partners with Aviary(filepicker.io)
60 points by brettcvz 14y ago|10 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Do it! That would be awesome!
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Looking at the source, looks like he piped it through http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/ , which looks like it does basic image to ascii conversions when you give it a url. Not sure if he spun that up, but it's cool in that now the
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Nobody will win the storage war(blog.filepicker.io)
48 points by brettcvz 14y ago|28 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
We're cranking out even more, let us know what you want to see next
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Filepicker.io now supports Instagram, Flickr and Video Recording(filepicker.io)
82 points by brettcvz 14y ago|26 comments
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Sorry, I agree probably not the best-written paragraph. Essentially: * There are distinct focus-areas on the business side, just as there are on the coding side * Identifying the differences helps us figure out what to do, when, and how
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by brettcvz 14y ago
It could be better, agreed, but I find the format much more conducive to this type of long-form post than Facebook.
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Yeah... my bad. Definitely thought he was going to cut that out
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Perhaps far down the line, for now it was just a quick hack exploring Filepicker.io and Handsontable
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Yeah I didn't want to say "Excel" because it's no where near excel level. But it's still cool!

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