Being able to write files to a filepicker url - which ends up in a users cloud account - is very powerful stuff. We're using it to automatically sync zip files that take a long time for us to process. Having a very easy to use layer of abstraction for all these cloud APIs is brilliant.
This has probably been discussed before, but why the huge gap in price between free and "Pro"? Why not make "Free" a max of 500 uploads/month and a "Starter" tier that costs $10.00/month for 5,000 uploads?
whoa. you can read and write on their urls? pretty slick as it actually looks like a js file system.<p>It's super interesting; javascript is okay, but any shortcomings seem to be solved by other people.<p>Inconsistencies and ease of use- Jquery
Filesystem- Filepicker
Code organization - Backbone
etc.
I really wanted to use your service in the past but I couldn't justify paying so much just for image conversion.. I see it now comes as standard! Thank you!
From the documentation it appears that you can write to any file if you have filepicker.picked it. Is this true even if the file was outside the browser file system sandbox? For example I select /home/me/myfile.txt ? Assume the file has write permissions for anyone. Can you write directly to myfile.txt? Or is a push to S3 + download involved.
Saw that you guys changed your pricing to per file (specifically, it says per FPURL created). Does that mean if I have a user upload a file, and then convert that file by cropping/resizing it, each time I convert it that also counts as a "file" toward my monthly quota? Or are conversions of uploaded files "free"?
I'm reading through the docs, but not quite understanding the architecture. Is Amazon S3 specially privileged over the other cloud services, or is it just being used as an example? Do all file requests mediated by the Filepicker.io servers, or can one go straight from browser to 3rd party storage?
Any guidance on upgrading to the V1 API? I'd love to use the file extension limits instead of the MIME types (which can't target some files like *.ipa)...