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Very recently, without many people realizing it, there’s been a major shift in the way that software companies treat cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive etc. Online storage is starting to become a primary hard drive for users rather than a secondary. We’ve been seeing it in the rapid pace of our growth […]
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Fresh from Thanksgiving and its associated warm fuzzies, I found myself wondering if the spirit of generosity and gratitude extend to business contexts. For example, how do people respond when they are presented a product or service without a corresponding price? I am specifically referring to situations where the seller invites the buyer to name […]
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You started a company!? High five, good work. It’s now been a few months, you’ve had a lot of late nights with your cofounders, and it’s starting to look like you are making something people want. Here’s a heads up on some of the things you’ve probably ignored so far, but you should probably take […]
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It has been said you should enter a business plan competition at most once. Steve Blank wouldn’t even go that far. Most startup events are similar, particularly around universities – going to more than one can be dangerous in that it creates a false sense of accomplishment. Don’t get me wrong, these events are fun, […]
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Startups often want to sign up well recognized brands as customers. It increases the credibility of their own brand and provides social proof to their smaller customers. However, the sales approach that worked for a smaller customer doesn’t always work for a larger one. This post details a situation where I failed to recognize the […]
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We at Filestack spend a lot of time thinking about APIs. With the release of our Version 1.0 API, we thought about best practices for JavaScript API design, and wanted to share them so that when we use your API, it’ll be just as awesome as when you use ours. In this article, we’ll show […]
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Browser-side Javascript is a lot of fun, but there’s a serious limitation when it comes to security because the source is publicly viewable. Given that one of the things we do here at Filepicker.io is provide a javascript library that helps developers upload files into their S3, it’s important that the developers have a way […]
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In trying to help a friend get more storage space during the Dropbox Space Race, Alex Milouchev built something really cool: a Google Chrome extension for attaching your files anywhere on the web to Gmail. Using Filepicker.io, Alex’s Chrome extension (christened Cloudy) allows you to attach your files from Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, etc. […]
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Filepicker.io helps mobile and web application developers directly integrate with the user’s files in multiple cloud storage platforms. We save developers time because they don’t have to write custom code for file upload and file management. tl;dr: When doing customer development it’s valuable to focus on the non-work related persona of the customer. Since we […]
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We have been busy this October talking to users and writing code. So we took a step back and decided to consolidate all the resources & tools that we released. These may help you integrate with Filepicker.io faster. Shoot us a note at contact at filestack.com if you have questions or comments. Also, we wanted […]
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About Coderbits Coderbits is site that lets you share (and show off) what you know. By linking data from sites such as: Github, Codecademy, Dribbble, Coderwall, Forrst, you can have a complete and up-to-date profile of what you’re learning, what kind of time and energy you’re expending into your craft. Coderbits value proposition is extremely […]
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I can’t tell you how many times my Mom has wanted to collect everyone’s photos from an event or a trip, and how every time the process feels like pulling teeth. I use Dropbox, my sister has photos on Facebook, my Dad’s are on Picasa – it’s a mess. In light of this problem, might […]
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With the release of our Javascript API, we’ve had a number of people ask how in the world we were able to make a cross-browser solution for reading, writing, and storing files in javascript, especially with IE8. It’s fun stuff, so I wanted to share with the community how we did it. Warning: what follows […]
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Zuck may have given up on HTML5 but the rest of us including Filepicker.io haven’t. We are BIG believers in the future of HTML5; both for web and mobile apps. That is why we are ardent supporters of the HTML5 Developer Conference on October 15th and 16th in San Francisco. A week ago we announced […]
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What do Airbnb, Zendesk, & MIT Enterprise Forum have in common? They all leverage the power of the VidCaster platform to deploy and manage video sites. VidCaster helps marketing professionals, video professionals, and e-learning and training professionals take the pain out of creating, hosting and distributing video content. VidCaster+Filepicker.io integration Today, we joined forces with […]
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When you are part of a small team at a fast-growing company like Filepicker.io, there is a constant push to focus only on the immediate task at hand, to Get Things Done. This focus is incredibly important, and many fledgling companies fail because they try to do too many things before they’re ready. On a […]
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“When I’m introspective about the last few years, I think the biggest mistake that we made as a company is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native. Because it just wasn’t there.” -Mark Zuckerberg, Techcrunch Disrupt SF, September 2012. Some of us aren’t ready to give up on HTML5 yet. At Filepicker.io, we […]
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First, let’s set some boundary conditions. This post is targeted at tech startups that are looking for an execution focused, front-line sales person. Filepicker.io is a good example of this kind of a company. This post is not about bringing on a business co-founder or hiring your first senior business person. I have seen similarities […]
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A week ago, a friend of ours told us about this awesome event at Penn called PennApps, where students from across the eastern seaboard come to turn their new ideas into useable products in 48 hours. Even though the event was only two days away, when we heard about the event we knew we wanted […]
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With today’s launch of a whole new pricing model on Filepicker.io, we figured it would be a great opportunity to share with the community our experience around selling and pricing a SaaS product as a startup. As the folks at 37 Signals say, this is based on our experience, so use good judgement in applying […]
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Filestack’s goal is to connect the user’s files, photos and videos to the applications that need them. Recently we have been working a lot with user photos and here is what we learned. Photos are hard to work with for a developer As a developer looking to add the photo experience into your application you have […]
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Filepicker.io’s goal is to connect the user’s files, photos and videos to the applications that need them. Recently we have seen an increased demand from our customers for additional video functionality. So we partnered with Tokbox’s Opentok API to make that happen quickly. Opentok is a flexible cloud-based API that makes it easy to add […]
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We are happy to announce that JotForm and Filepicker.io will be working together to enhance your form building experience. JotForm is the first web based WYSIWYG form builder. Before JotForm, web based form builders were painful to use. You would add a question by going to an “Add Question” page. JotForm introduced the idea of […]
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In the continuous quest for a better user experience, performance plays a large part. Therefore, at Filepicker.io, we go to great lengths to minimize latency. In this post, I’ll go into one example of how I did so recently. Filepicker.io ensures your privacy by sending all our traffic over HTTPS. However, since our web servers […]
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Dropbox and Box have just been crushing it in the online storage space. Those before them had failed, largely because they focused on backups, rather than the true benefit of the internet, collaboration. As a Filepicker.io founder who is working on connecting web applications to cloud storage, I’m often asked who is going to win […]
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The hackers in the valley have managed to convince all the business majors that learning to code is important; Coding is a prerequisite for communicating with your programmers or to attract a good technical co-founder. At Filepicker.io, we have found ourselves debating about this quite often. However, I also want to argue the reverse, that […]
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If you are a programmer working on a startup, force yourself to spend a day working where you don’t write any code. Seriously, do it, and make it a habit. You and your company will be greatly benefited. The time’s I’ve done it here at Filepicker.io have paid off in spades. Here’s the thing: I […]
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A number of developers have asked recently why Filepicker.io passes around everything as URLs, and to me the better question is why more serivces don’t pass everything around as URLs. For any object of substantial size, passing around a reference to the object is far more reasonable and resource efficient than passing around the object […]
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Recently on Hacker News, two posts about in-browser editors with cloud storage integration (shameless plug: both via filestack.com) reached the front page: one for vi and one for emacs. Follow the discussion on HN Here are the statistics for both posts: Show HN: Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, Github, etc. 17 points, 5 […]
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Large file uploads can be a problem. Follow the discussion here on HN Over the last few decades, Moore’s law has kept storage size increasing at a breakneck pace, with 1 Terabyte drives now increasingly common in PCs. Alongside this rapid increase in storage, we’ve seen the average file size go through the roof, with images […]
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High energy, high quality and high stakes. Photohack day 3 was all of that and more! Follow the discussion on HN Photohack day 3 was the first edition on the west coast of the increasingly popular Photohack day hackathon put together by Aviary and its partners (Facebook, Dropbox, 500px, Samsung, Walgreens, Sincerely, Flickr, Flashphoto, Fujifilm, […]
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Whenever there is a conversation about the future of computing, the discussion inevitably turns to the notion of a “File.” After all, most tablets and phones don’t show the user anything that resembles a file, only Apps that contain their own content, tucked away inside their own opaque storage structure. This is wrong. Files are […]
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Keep ‘em coming has been what you’ve asked for, so here we are again: another inspiration for a service we’d love to see built using Filepicker.io In some ways, this idea is similar to the last Inspirations post on printing cloud photos using Filepicker.io, but in a different domain: Send a fax from Filepicker.io Ideally […]
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Success Story: Bugly – Issue Tracking Evolved buglyapp: We’re happy to announce that we’ve just deployed a new release, where the star of the show is a much improved issue details view. We’ll take you through all the changes below, but let’s review what was wrong with the old details view first: It was difficult […]
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We heard a number of people say how much they liked our last Project Ideas post on a Filepicker.io and Pixlr mashup, so we’ve got another idea for you: Print Photos Directly from the Cloud We at Filepicker.io now actually have most of our personal photos uploaded to the cloud, between Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, stuck […]
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What does it mean to live online? That was the question we asked ourselves when one of our mentors challenged us to live and work entirely online. It was almost a Yoda like question. We thought we were already living online. We stay connected via Facebook and Twitter. We amuse and entertain ourselves on Pinterest […]
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Over the last few days we’ve had some conversations here at Filestack about how content types will be identified in the future, whether we will still all be using extensions on filenames like .txt or whether mimetypes are the way forward. If you want to brush up on mimetypes, the wikipedia article is great. Here’s our […]
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Well that was an interesting bug. Over the last day, we had a handful of users complain that our log in, registration, and activation pages were all broken. And not just broken in a small way – the entire login form was missing! Strangely, none of our automated or manual testing had seen anything like […]
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Sometimes over dinner or while we’re waiting for our tests to pass, we’ll chat about some of the neat applications that someone should make using Filepicker.io. Some of them are probably just a couple hours of work, others weekend projects, and others potentially whole startups! But given that we think that they would make the […]
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We’re starting to write some “success stories” around people who have used Filepicker.io in their applications. If you’re interested in being profiled, shoot us an email at contact@filestack.com or leave a comment and we’ll reach out. Otherwise, watch this space! It’s really neat to see how websites are using Filepicker.io in so many clever ways. […]
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After releasing our MVP, we talked to many of our users to figure out what they wanted to see in our product. As a result, over the past month, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to make your sites more powerful. These include: New cloud services Pull files from new services including Gmail […]
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It’s been a week since we graduated from MIT. Since then, we have spent all our waking hours building filestack.com and validating customer needs. As we started living and working together we felt a dramatic increase in our productivity. The 24/7 collective energy that fuels our shared vision is invigorating; we exchange ideas more frequently, […]
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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MVP “You know what, screw it, let’s launch.” It was Tuesday: we just had a basic demo of filestack.com and some friends poke at it and a long “pre-launch” to-do list, but we decided to throw caution to the wind and share our fledgling product […]
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