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by brettcvz 14y ago
The problem is that it requires each application to have to wrap each API. You end up with a huge amount of redundant work, and in general a dearth of integrations as developers are lazy/reprioritize. For example, there are apps that suppor
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Interesting solution - this is similar to what I was referring to in the last paragraph that a traditional folder-based filesystem isn't necessarily the only way, but that a system-wide, abstract, and inter-operable content wrapper was the
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by brettcvz 14y ago
seconded
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But even on the web there is limited ability for applications to share data without explicitly working with the apis. A central filesystem allows for "star network" integration rather than point-to-point
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Interesting to think of it from that layer of abstraction. I definitely agree, but "Why Files Exist" fits nicer as a title
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Code (multiple types), images (multiple types), documents (multiple types), videos (multiple types), audio (multiple types) And for all of them, I should be able to move them between services and applications as I please
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Why Files Exist(blog.filepicker.io)
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Sunglass.io Public Launch, democratize 3d design(techcrunch.com)
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Awesome. I'll see what I can do
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[Shameless plug] They could if they use Filepicker.io! Anyone know someone on the project that I could contact?
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dG works for me
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by brettcvz 14y ago
Sorry should have been more clear. I meant for saving back a commit after opening from Github
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Aah MIT nerds. Pretty cool though - any plans for Github support?
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Mimetypes versus Extensions(filepicker.tumblr.com)
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Warn HN: Bugs caused by overly aggressive A/B Testing(filepicker.tumblr.com)
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ShowHN: Filelinker - simple sharing of online files(filelinker.herokuapp.com)
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by brettcvz 14y ago
3:00pm Thursday. Headline was: Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads
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Luck, Friends, probably in that order. Also giving people a demo, releasing on a slow(er) news day, releasing right about the time people get off work, making something for developers and giving it away for free.
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Fixed. The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away
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Done! Good call
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by brettcvz 15y ago
Just shipped it. I've been trying to reach out to people who said they wanted it, but not everyone has emails. Enjoy!
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Ask and you shall receive: Filepicker.io now supports IE, Mobile(filepicker.io)
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Done. Just pushed into master. We now support IE8+, Chrome (all), firefox 3+, most safari, recent opera. Also iPad, iPhone, Android
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We at filepicker.io are interested
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We actually see it as part of the solution to the permissions problem. By acting as this universal file provider, you no longer have to give access B or D or any other applications you want to use. We allow users to consolidate who they're
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by brettcvz 15y ago
We can't say this for certain, but what we'd like to do it put it down in writing that if for any reason we can't provide the service anymore, we open-source it. Would this help?
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Actually the drag-drop isn't as big of a deal as cross-domain message passing. We'll likely end up having to use a flash fallback or similar, but last night as we were hacking on this we decided to punt for a day or two
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by brettcvz 15y ago
Good to know re. mobile. Re. email, we'll be trying to limit the number of emails we send out to the lowest possible, but if there's interest we can create a separate mailing list that's higher volume for feature announcements, etc. over th
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Because we're tired of not being able to live entirely online, and this is one small step in that direction
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Yup, we're planning on supporting a whole bunch, including fancier things like gmail attachments, evernote, etc. Are their clients you'd like? And yeah, you can use it on your site right now. Grab a key and you're good to go

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