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Re:Dropbox Chooser by johnrob on Thursday November 15, 2012 @02:27PM (#4790286)
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.
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Re:Dropbox Chooser by romain_dardour on Thursday November 15, 2012 @02:37PM (#4790343)
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 :)
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Re:Dropbox Chooser by brettcvz on Thursday November 15, 2012 @02:49PM (#4790399)
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!

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Re:Dropbox Chooser by tarr11 on Friday November 16, 2012 @01:42AM (#4792745)
Yup. You guys are doing a great job, I don't think of this as competitive. Image conversion is brilliant.

Keep it up!

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