Show HN: Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads

[brettcvz]

With one line of HTML, you can pull a photo from dropbox, convert and resize it, and dump it into your S3.

[chaselee]

It really is easy, took like 5 seconds yesterday

[thinkzig]

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 multiple sizes? I couldn't see a way to do this in your API docs.... or else I'm just reading it wrong.

Congrats and keep up the great work.

[liyanchang]

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 [email protected] as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer about some details.

[BryanB55]

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, even better is there anyway to simply embed the pop up window in a page and eliminate the need to open a modal or pop up?

[liyanchang]

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 [email protected] and we'll get you set up.

[ernestipark]

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, upload it to S3, then delete the local file. Huge PITA.

[liyanchang]

We actually do direct S3 uploads. Ping us offline and we'll get you set up.

[bitsweet]

another solution to that problem is avatars.io

[jarin]

Oh god, I just finished integrating Filepicker.io with a client site and I was thinking "man, it would be great if the button showed an indicator that it was done uploading".

I think I'm in love with you guys.

[liyanchang]

Happy customers make me happy.

[pgrote]

I hate to ask this ... but is there a graceful fallback for IE7 clients?

[brettcvz]

Yup - drag-drop disappears on IE but the Cloud upload still works

[fredsters_s]

Awesome! How does this service just keep getting better and better? They are really able to focus on building an awesome product!

[brettcvz]

Wow! Thank you - let us know if there is anything more we can do.

[startupmum]

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 great so you could workflow it through moderation. Also, document format conversion (not just images) would be great if you piped them through Google drive somehow...

[brettcvz]

We have full native mobile SDKs as well for iOS and Android. Turk and Gdrive conversion are neat ideas - thanks!

[SnaKeZ]

Awesome service! Congrats Liyan.

In the past i hated develop the "upload-code", now with your service it's really easy: just one html line.

[sirwanqutbi]

Whats your technology stack for this? Is it NodeJS?

[liyanchang]

We're a Python shop; Flask as the framework, Mongo as the DB, hosted with AWS, hand-rolled JS on jquery.