Any project that lasts longer than a few months inevitably encounters some form of duplication from elsewhere. There should be a Metcalfe-esque law for that.
Re:Dropbox Chooser
by romain_dardour on Thursday November 15, 2012 @02:37PM
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Being chased by a 800 pound gorilla is always scary.
Hang on guys, I love your product and I'm sure you can embrace and extend :)
Love the enthusiasm! To us, anything that helps makes products work more seamlessly together online is a win for the web and the world we want to see.
It also seems like Dropbox is encouraging a different use case, in that the links they provide by default are Dropbox share links that route back to Dropbox, and even the direct ones expire after 4 hours. With Filepicker.io, we want to be a more complete filesystem solution, offering things like store to S3, read/write on the URLs, conversion, etc.
To the cloud!
Our goal is for users to be able to connect directly to their online content, and we're working with Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Skydrive, Facebook and others to make this happen.