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by liyanchang 14y ago
Correct. We currently do mimetype verification. People have been asking for extensions as well, so that's on the roadmap as well.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
We think that good file handling is important for the future of the web. When we first started, we weren't planning and didn't want to build a company. However, as we went on, we kept needing server side components to make things work smoot
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How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt(blog.filepicker.io)
85 points by liyanchang 14y ago|30 comments
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Hi there. We think it's super useful too and therefore really excited to help developers onboard. We've learned quite a bit about how to email developers and still continuing to learn to to best serve you all. For instance, we started out s
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Actually a really cool way of storing passwords in plain sight. EDIT: Though if you were really secure, you shouldn't be typing your passwords into a third party website in plaintext. Alas, I'll have to write my own.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Saw something on HN a couple weeks ago. http://mit.edu/~georgiou/www/vi/
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Ah. Sorry. I was talking about when I'm working in computer labs. Unfortunately, I can't download the client. Comment edited.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Pretty Cool. I hate having to download files from Dropbox just to upload again when I need to save. I think this might do the trick. EDIT: I just realized that it's not clear. I do use the client and it works really well from my computer. I
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Nice. I like how web applications get so much better once you can import your own content.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Hi Scott, iOS video recording is ready and soon to be shipped. Send me an email for early access: liyan@filepicker.io
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Man. Mentioning Heroku while in the Rackspace offices. Awkward :D
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Totally agree. As valuable as engineering resources are, it's the little things that make people love your product.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
In my opinion, there are three major tiers of gifts: 1. Things that I want but could not have done before These would be experiences or collectors items. Having lunch with Linus or PG would be examples of this category; items like a box of
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Happy customers make me happy.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
We're a Python shop; Flask as the framework, Mongo as the DB, hosted with AWS, hand-rolled JS on jquery.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
You can specify COMPUTER as the first (and only service) if you wish. http://jsfiddle.net/filepicker/gJ8yE/ We're also looking for beta testers with our embed. Contact me at liyan@filepicker.io and we'll get you set up.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
We currently allow you to resize on the fly. Preconfigured conversion is coming soon :D. Actually, feel free to ping me on olark (on the site) or liyan@filepicker.io as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer
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by liyanchang 14y ago
We actually do direct S3 uploads. Ping us offline and we'll get you set up.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Yup. We always thought that implementing drag drop uploads, even with jquery plugins, took way too much time and effort. Plus we do cool stuff, like download acceleration by splitting files up and uploading in parallel.
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Show HN: Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads(filepicker.io)
83 points by liyanchang 14y ago|26 comments
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Super cool. It's good to see better uploaders around the web. Such a silly problem, but still not solved.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
"my data stores and yours are practically collocated". Truth. Every time I ping from my server and get ridiculously low response times, I have to pause to think before thinking "Thank you AWS".
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Being on Herkou, been bit many times by the 30 second time out. No luxury of changing it, let alone moving in nginx.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
First, I'm impressed that someone was uploading 2gb files back in 2003... Agreed. Good to see that firefox is going to be able to do more than 2gb soon.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
It used to be that no one did mobile at hackathons since web was faster. Good to see that the tools have gotten better so now about half and half.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
This is awesome. Always wanted this.
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by liyanchang 14y ago
How are you calculating percentages?
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by liyanchang 14y ago
Pretty cool. And being able to getting files from Dropbox/Gmail makes it actually useful.
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by liyanchang 15y ago
Email validation in play. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by liyanchang 15y ago
We completely agree. Nailing cross browser issues, more services, and looking to mobile is what can make this valuable and, as you correctly point out, we aren't quite there yet. We just wanted to loop the community in early to help us buil

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