After years of lurking on Hacker News, I figured it was time to finally contribute back. Fileloupe for Mac is a new Mac application that I've been working on for the last year. Version 1.0 was just released in the Mac App Store but Hacker News readers are welcome to download a beta version of 1.1 here:<p>https://kennyc.s3.amazonaws.com/Fileloupe1.1-72-Beta.zip<p>Fileloupe is a high-performance, incredibly fast file viewer that, I think, makes looking at photos, videos, PDFs and documents a lot better than the existing solutions. It doesn't replace Finder (or iPhoto / Lightroom), but rather sits between the two of them in my workflow. If you ever find yourself wanting to browse through the contents of a folder but a Finder window is too restrictive and launching a dozen windows in Preview or Quick Time Player doesn't make sense, then check out Fileloupe.<p>You can find out more information here:<p>http://www.fileloupe.com<p>Things that might be of interest to the Hacker News community:<p>* After working on it for a good chunk of 2014 back in Canada, I moved to Bangkok, Thailand in January to be a "digital nomad" with the goal of finishing 1.0 over here. I rented an apartment, joined a co-working space and met a bunch of other digital nomads working remotely.<p>* It's a Mac application and I'm an indie developer (hopefully), which tends to raise a few eyebrows these days in the world of mobile apps and web based ideas.<p>* I started my career by working in Silicon Valley on Be OS, followed by the first version of OS X and then spending most of my time on the T-Mobile Sidekick (aka: Danger Hiptop).<p>* In 2005/2006 I left Silicon Valley and traveled overland from Barcelona, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa. I'm still trying to find my way home...<p>If you have any questions or feedback, then please let me know. Thank you.<p>Kenny
My word this is fast!<p>My use case is probably not the one you intended it for, but I've pointed it (the beta) at my folders of contracts and spreadsheets to see if it can replace finder/QuickLook. So far, I'm just thrilled I can QuickLook two files side by side!<p>I don't really understand what dragging a folder in does though. Does that set it up as some permanent link?<p>What is "Staging"?<p>Is there any way I can get a view of a folder as a list, so I can choose which files to compare? My files generally have very long names, so these always appear truncated when in icon view.<p>Very good work. Will keep up with the beta for a few days's real work then buy if it remains useful. $29.99 is above impulse purchase value for me, but I certainly want to support you as an independent developer.
I have to say the website really does sell the product well. It's everything 'Preview' should be and more.<p>It looks very polished and is really, really fast (opened a project of ~11,000 files on my old 2010 MBP with spinning disk and it could <i>instantly</i> filter and search).<p>I congratulate you on shipping a piece of software that surpasses Apple's standards. :)<p>I've installed the app on all of my machines, work and personal within 10 minutes of visiting the website. Great job!
Hi Kenny,
Fileloup looks great, but is it possible to have a test version first? 29$ is certainly not that much, but also
not so little, one just spends right away.
would appreciate it!
thanks, manzoni