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I'm your target audience. I've built this exact function into client apps (upload from various sources and edit with Aviary). Its a PITA.

I'd consider yours, but there's a couple big problems right now:

    1) Doesn't support IE. 
    2) Doesn't work on mobile

There's other issues, but those are the show-stoppers.

FWIW, Chute (http://getchute.com) has a better implementation of this concept. That said, I still haven't seen enough of a value add here (with Filepicker or with Chute) to depend on yet another black box service that may shut down tomorrow.

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Hi George,

Thanks for mentioning us. We definitely offer a very similar set of features with Slidechute.

I think the value add comes in many different ways, but we're just at the beginning of that process so it's not always all evident.

As for the black box, there's not a lot of Voodoo with us. Since launching we allow you to store media in your own S3 bucket and also to customize your app credentials so the authentication happens against your app.

Would love to know what features you thought would add the kind of value you need.

Hey Greg and Liyan! Those are great steps, didn't know you had done them. Helps a bit. I'd still have to replace your widget, but it would at least be possible.

I'm certainly open to brain-picking, email me anytime (in my profile).

how do you find this post? do you have google alerts set up? just curious

it's worth noting that it can't work on mobile - mobile safari does not support any kind of file uploads. But not working in IE is definitely a fatality

It's worth noting that iPhone does not equal Mobile. What about Android? Even if Chrome is the only Android browser supported, that would be plenty!

Once we get filepicker.io working on mobile browsers, sites using filepicker.io would allow users files directly from Dropbox, Facebook, etc without the iPhone directly supporting it.

And yes, we are working on IE support.

We now work on IE8+ as well as mobile safari and android

Done. Just pushed into master. We now support IE8+, Chrome (all), firefox 3+, most safari, recent opera. Also iPad, iPhone, Android

Qeorge, completely agree. Those are the two aspects that we should really nail so that others don't have to deal with it. I'll be sure to update you when I've learned more about IE and their Javascript engine then I ever wanted to know.

I'd be curious to pick your brain about what you think would add that additional value.

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