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I worked under two of these guys two summers ago. They're really sharp guys and I have faith they can back up their claims.

We at filepicker.io (https://www.filepicker.io) are trying to solve this pain point for developers working with user content

I agree

I'd really like to be able to use Dropbox as a magic upload handler for any file I upload on my local HD, not just those in my Dropbox folder. They handle the logic of getting all my files into the cloud. Why can't I point a website to my Dropbox and say here, this is handling the file upload?

I made touchmeup (http://touchmeup.joshma.com/) The aviary guys really threw together an awesome hackathon!

Although one thing I noticed was how many different photo printing services there were and how each one's api was strikingly different and difficult to get working. Maybe there is a space for someone to do single api for photo printing?

If you guys want to try out sample apps on Android, here are the links to the apks:

An ImageViewer: https://github.com/Filepicker/filepicker-imageviewer/raw/mas...

An ImageSaver: https://github.com/Filepicker/filepicker-imagesaver/raw/mast...

It doesn't use the native accounts yet in the interest of development time. We still use the mobile specific auth screen for services that support it though.

We plan to support those in the next release.

Yeah it does. We allow you to pull from both the local gallery and camera on both platforms.

I had a similar experience with someone in Palo Alto last summer. Good stuff

There is a hierarchy of organization structures that are typically used for "content." For content with low numbers, a list works best. For example, the home screen is a list. With a medium number of files, hierarchical structures like traditional file systems work best. However, when you reach many, many files, tagging and searching is typically needed.

Files do exist. They are the values in the filesystem KV store, but they are also a schema for the value so that interoperability works. If we followed your logic, apps would not exist either but we all agree they do.

How many different file types do you typically use in a week?

This is implemented. It works for me in chrome

Is there any other way to get an arbitrary file from your dropbox into a text editor?

Thanks! Filepicker was a joy to use and really made this

It is completely static. I can do everything purely from javascript using filepicker.io to do all the I/O

It already is open sourced but I do plan on writing a blog post about it sometime in the future

I just fixed C. ciw doesn't work since I've only implemented vim stuff for now but I may slowly add in vim features if there is demand for them

I haven't tried it, but feel free to use it if it works. It's open source.

Sign up for the google group I created here https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi and I'll let you know when I add evernote support

Feel free to join this google group https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi

Not at the moment. It supports most of the standard unix vi commands but not the enhanced vim ones as of yet.

There already is Github support

Cloud vi was my side project last week. FYI: I didn't build the editor. I took it from http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/ but modified it a bit and integrated it with https://www.filepicker.io to make it much more useful.

X forwarding is just too slow I don't want to wait >300ms or so for my input to generate a response. HTML + JS serves the same purpose as X forwarding with your application hosted on a remote box displaying in your local browser with the exception of javascript allowing small amounts of local computation to be performed when it makes sense.

What is your reasoning? I personally think it's silly that we still carry around all our files on a disk drive in our hands. If we lose that, we lose everything. If I don't have my laptop with me, I can't do my work.

I do most of my work in the terminal and the browser. If I could somehow use a remote terminal with the convenience of being able to open files with image viewers/etc on my local machine, I have no need for a local disk.

Heroku has now acknowledged issues https://status.heroku.com/

Sorry for the downtime on the main site but our Heroku/Amazon ssl load balancer died. I temporarily reverted to Heroku's piggyback ssl so the site will work but with an invalid security certificate. We are trying to resolve the issue with Heroku now.

Yeah, for some reason our load balancer isn't establishing ssl connections. We're looking into the issue.

We currently do that with http://filepicker.io/ across multiple cloud providers (only Dropbox and Facebook for now though)

We currently only support opening and saving back files but we plan to add save-as support in the next few days