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Comment by thinkzig | Hacker News Reader

This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool.

I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at multiple sizes? I couldn't see a way to do this in your API docs.... or else I'm just reading it wrong.

Congrats and keep up the great work.

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We currently allow you to resize on the fly.

Preconfigured conversion is coming soon :D. Actually, feel free to ping me on olark (on the site) or liyan@filepicker.io as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer about some details.

Please implement these as derived files in subdirectories. That is; keep the original as is, and allow chained processors in any order with user specified "handles". The handles are subdirectories but filenames are otherwise the same, except for the extensions that may be updated by the processor in a predictable way. So if a user uploads a TeX file, processors can be added for

    /random-file.tex
    "preview"=PNG+Resize(200x400)  - /preview/random-file.png
    "pdf"=TeX-2-PDF(Bicubic=True)  - /pdf/random-file.pdf

Sorry for using a HN thread for this :) And I realize this is a lot of work. Your service looks very promising.

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