Dropbox as a CMS - DropPages

Interesting. Would this tool be a way to work around censorship and control? I mean, only the naive can think there will be no increase in censorship on the net. My guess is all govs are brainstorming a LOT right now, including the new govs in Middle-east. We need to fix this. Something like droppages could be a piece of the puzzle, no?

Awesome. We built a POC that did the same thing a little over a year ago. We got our moms to use it and they loved it for updating their own sites. There's definitely a good business model there.

Back then we did it the hard way basically making our own Dropbox API. We had a Windows server running with the Dropbox client installed. You would share a folder with our Dropbox username and our script would auto accept it, and then we ran rsync to sync up the Windows folders with our web servers. Back then getting the Linux client to run was a bit of a pain which is why we went the windows route for that part of the site.

Now I have a working droppage -- thanks Dave for sorting my idiocy -- I am both impressed and enamoured by the potential use of this idea.

Someone is bound to open source something similar to allow you to self host, thus bypassing droppage's revenue model to some extent, but for non-techs (or just-a-bit techs), this is stellar.

For simple speed to up and running a kosher, reliably backed up web-site, this is hard to beat.

Are we as a web development community running headlong into another Twitter scenario, where we build a huge ecosystem around a company's API only to have it yanked out from under us at some indeterminate point in the future? Serious question, not a subtle accusation.

Pretty cool, similar to https://www.views.fm/ (or at least, does the same thing as views.fm for me)

The website has to be served via DropBox too then, correct? So, DropBox is the web host too for the static site?

Great idea. I'm really curious how you set up the backend though?

Darn someone beat me to it. Nice idea and it seems well executed.

i thought the dropbox api only allowed authentication calls on mobile apps?