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I was just about to pay for another month of CloudApp. I'm still going to do that as the 'automatically upload screenshots' feature is just too killer to give up. But if Droplings had that, I'd definitely pay for it.

Check out Slingshot- basically CloudApp for Dropbox. It sits in your menu-bar. When you take a screenshot, it uploads it to your DropBox public folder and puts the link in your clipboard. Super easy and no subscription (I think it costs like 3 bucks in the App Store)

How come? What is better about this than cloud app?

Hi, I'm Carlo, the Droplings dev. For one thing, you can share files larger than 25MB and more than 10 files per day without a monthly sub.

I know CloudApp has more features, but I was mostly scratching my own itches here. ;)

I use grabbox(http://grabbox.devsoft.no/) it's free does all of the things people have listed here.

What about using the Dropbox URL shortener instead of a custom Droplings one? I'm not sure if that's possible or not, but my one qualm about your app is the sustainability of yet another URL shortener.

Otherwise, this looks awesome. Looking forward to 1.0!

I've a number of things planned re short URLs. In the end I want to build a tool people are willing to pay for, not run an URL shortening service. ;)

Under the hood drpln.gs is using Bitly, BTW.

Cool! Always felt like sharing public files via Dropbox wasn't quite as quick as it should be. Seems similar to CloudApp's menu bar app: http://getcloudapp.com/

I built this while at Box, 100% free and works on Mac, PC, and Linux, takes video, screenshots, and shares file(s):

http://www.box.com/simpleshare/

I would add the "why" to the front page. When I read the top paragraph, first reaction was - "I can do that with Dropbox itself already". I'd add something about easily sharing.

Good point. Added a "I wrote it because" paragraph.

Thanks!

Another alternative is droplr (http://droplr.com). It does not use your dropbox account, which I think is an advantage.

I use (and really like) droplr, but the recent content isn't encrypted fiasco[1] is kind of scaring me away.

But, still there because I can't give up the screenshot sharing and keyboard shortcuts in the meantime.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226285

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