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This significant update transforms our platform into a robust multi-user environment, making it easier than ever to manage your organization’s file-handling infrastructure while maintaining top-tier security and control.
White Label Your Custom Dropbox App On Filepicker’s scale plan, you can have a complete white labeled experience to connect your own dropbox account. It will enable your users to pick files from their dropbox via your custom application. Follow along with the steps below. It should take you less than 7 minutes to setup! […]
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Filepicker is used in many countries around the world, and we want to support our international users by enabling multi-language support. You will soon be able to integrate Filepicker in the native language of choice. We currently have support for Simplified Chinese and Polish. Spanish and Traditional Chinese are coming at the end of the […]
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Filepicker makes the user experience seamless. Did you know that you can add custom CSS to match the look and feel of your site? Why use Filepicker Custom CSS? Using Custom CSS to modify your Filepicker’s design allows for an enhanced user experience for people uploading to your site, while also keeping the convenience of […]
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Metadata endpoints are critical pieces of the puzzle in any file uploaded to Filepicker. It is used to expose additional information regarding services or applications. Metadata also allows for info developers need to find it on their own. The alternative is trying to hunt it down blindly, or ask a publisher for a copy via […]
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With the Filestack Filepicker, the days of editing images in Photoshop are coming to an end. Once you upload images to Filepicker, you can edit that image directly from its URL. Image Conversion Filepicker makes it ease to work with user content by enabling image post-processing. That way, regardless of what type of file a […]
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Over the past 2 years Filepicker has matured from a dorm-room idea to help developers like us deal with the pain of uploads, to a YCombinator graduate and a thriving community of over 30,000 live Filepickers that have uploaded over 100 millions files! You’ve seen us build out our partner integrations and ecosystem—removing the technical […]
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Filepicker Now Has A Status Page With millions of file uploads trusted by over 20,000 developers, Filepicker is a product that people depend upon in their daily lives. Whether web integrations with HTML widgets, or deep integrations with Javascript API, Filepicker makes websites a whole lot more powerful. We believe that software should make your […]
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Filepicker recently interviewed Brandfolder Co-founder and Head of Product, Paul Arterburn, to discuss how he used Filepicker for GovDev Challenge hosted by Google. Why did you take part in GovDev Challenge? It was the first 24-hour GovDev Challenge put on by Google – who teamed up with the state of Colorado and Wyoming to come […]
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The increasing prevalence of mobile technology in today’s world is making life easier for some, while adding confusion to the lives of others. Tech savvy individuals understand many of the changes going on in mobile access, data sharing, and file transfers, but not everyone understands how things work. Filepicker’s new MD5 metadata call feature is […]
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Yesterday Detectify published a blog post explaining the pitfalls of allowing file uploads on your site. There are many kinds of attacks that a malicious user could target through your file upload system. In the particular attack, they show you how to use flash to upload a bogus file which can then execute arbitrary code using […]
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After being awarded as “Best Plug-In of May” by Atlassian, we used this excitement to add a linking feature to the plugin. With Version 1.1, you can link files from any of the cloud sources which host files and stop worrying about keeping JIRA in sync. Check out the video here Check out the newest […]
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Recently we released our Filepicker JIRA Plug-In to enable JIRA users to attach files, select profile photos, and export records using all Filepicker supported cloud sources. The way organizations are consuming software is radically changing. Consumerization of enterprise IT is emerging as the dominant model for software adoption. Atlassian’s products: JIRA and Confluence are leading […]
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Express your ideas with conviction, but be willing to drop them and adopt better ideas as they come along. The best leaders and organizations are those that are pragmatic. Here at Filestack, we say “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” – a concise and effective way of encouraging active debate and the meritocracy of ideas. “Strong Opinions” […]
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We’ve been growing in headcount and we found ourselves with an odd problem: we didn’t have enough key fobs to the office. Filepicker.io moved into a nice work live space overlooking AT&T park last October and our landlord has been great; we just kept asking for more key fobs. However, here’s how we got Twilio […]
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Hi all, Monday the 1st I joined Filepicker.io to work on User Acquisition and Product Management and I am pumped! Prior to this role, I worked as a Product Manager of Shopping and Merchandising at Nook (the e-reader owned by B&N) in Palo Alto, Product Manager of League of Legends Shop at Riot Games in […]
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One of the most requested features we hear from our customers is the ability to use video transcoding with Filepicker.io in a way that’s just as powerful and easy to integrate as our image conversion capabilities. We took a deep look at the video transcoding space and knew that we wanted to work with Zencoder […]
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When you’re working on javascript code, you can set a breakpoint from your editor by putting in the statement ‘debugger;’ in your code where you want to break. It’s better in many cases than manually setting a breakpoint in the inspector. I recently was working with a very talented front-end engineer who had never seen […]
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First let’s set some boundary conditions for this post. It is meant for early stage tech startups with limited resources embarking on their first usability testing experiment. Yes, usability testing is important. But performing usability testing at an early stage startup is hard. Best practices from larger companies with dedicated product managers do not carry […]
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We deal with a lot of data at Filestack and are constantly looking at ways to improve our ability to manage the large volume of content flowing through our systems. Last week, we had a great opportunity to exchange notes with folks at the OPen Compute Summit. The Open Compute Summit featured a hackathon sponsored by the […]
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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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3 HTML5 Apps 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 […]
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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. Introducing Opentok: A Cloud-Based Video API Opentok is a flexible cloud-based API […]
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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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