Filepicker.io web widgets
Infrastructure
file upload api
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7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Execution: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Very easy to integrate with one line of HTML
From 3 comments
With one line of HTML, you can pull a photo from dropbox, convert and resize it, and dump it into your S3.
brettcvz on HNIt really is easy, took like 5 seconds yesterday
chaselee on HNAwesome service! Congrats Liyan. In the past i hated develop the "upload-code", now with your service it's really easy: just one html line.
SnaKeZ on HN
Direct S3 uploads save a lot of work
From 2 comments
I really wish I had your S3 upload feature a few weeks back. Right now I get users to select a file to use as their profile picture. Then I save the file locally to my server,…
ernestipark on HNOh, yeah I know. I just didn't have it a few weeks ago when I was doing something manually and it sucks. This makes it a lot easier :).
ernestipark on HN
Useful image conversion and resizing
From 1 comment
This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at…
thinkzig on HN
Objections
Pick-file page is slow to load
From 1 comment
I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while. Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. For example, if I expect…
mamcx on HN
Sources look equally prominent, so the default is unclear
From 2 comments
I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while. Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. For example, if I expect…
mamcx on HNI thought the same. They should be grey'ed out, so they seems optional, but keep up the good work!
kevinsimper on HN
Drag-drop disappears on IE7
From 2 comments
I hate to ask this ... but is there a graceful fallback for IE7 clients?
pgrote on HNYup - drag-drop disappears on IE but the Cloud upload still works
brettcvz on HN
Requests
Preconfigured multi-size image conversion
From 2 comments
This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at…
thinkzig on HNPlease implement these as derived files in subdirectories. That is; keep the original as is, and allow chained processors in any order with user specified "handles". The handles…
jokull on HN
Embedded picker instead of modal popup
From 1 comment
Looks good. We'll be implementing something with filepicker.io in about 2 weeks. How can you make the "pick file" button open and default to "my computer" each time it opens? Or,…
BryanB55 on HN
Mechanical Turk integration and document conversion
From 1 comment
This is the first time I am coming across this, and I wonder if it works on mobile (saw the webcam feature on the site). Also, as an sdk, integration to mechanical turk would be…
startupmum on HN
Questions
Does it work on mobile?
From 1 comment
This is the first time I am coming across this, and I wonder if it works on mobile (saw the webcam feature on the site). Also, as an sdk, integration to mechanical turk would be…
startupmum on HN
Default the picker to my computer
From 1 comment
Looks good. We'll be implementing something with filepicker.io in about 2 weeks. How can you make the "pick file" button open and default to "my computer" each time it opens? Or,…
BryanB55 on HN
Alternatives named
avatars.io
From 1 comment
another solution to that problem is avatars.io
bitsweet on HN