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I've been working with the Dropbox API (among MANY others...) for my early stage startup Snapier (http://snapier.com/), and I must say it is a pleasure to work with. Very sensible and logical. I can't say that about all API's...

Another example of how Dropbox is gonna keep its momentum. With it, it should be rather straightforward to bake in some cool iCloud type of preview/revision stuff into native apps.

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In Snapier, it will be better if you have a message why you are asking for emails. More importantly, provide a message which is a little more than "Thank you very much" when I enter my email. Though I got an email within a second, it will be more user friendly to give a "We'll connect back soon" in the site itself.

Also, in the email you mention 'check us out on Twitter' but fail to provide the twitter id.

Just my two cents. If any of that sounds badly phrased, I blame the clock for showing 3 AM. Cheers :)

Thanks for the feedback. It was very slapdash but we hope to replace it with something more... robust soon.

Also, it would be nice to have a better description of what Snapier does exactly. 'A simple way to automatically sync data between Skype and Facebook'? What kind of data would I want to sync between those two services? I read your blog and if I understand correctly, Snapier would be something that get's my credentials for a bunch of API's and then interconnects them, so that I don't have to roll out a script to do it. If my understanding is correct, then this is not very well reflected in your landing page.

You do understand correctly, and we think this is a big challenge for us. We are trying to stay away from "technical" terms (save for the API nod in the name) but stay light on the marketing speak. I could go on and on about our plans here... but, to cut it short, you are absolutely right, it isn't reflected correctly on the landing page.

So, Snapier is like IF THIS THEN THAT but without the IF?

http://ifttt.com

Very similar, ifttt.com is definitely an inspiration (as is Yahoo! Pipes). However, we have a very different and more promising direction (we think!).

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