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brettcvz

1,721 karma · joined July 30, 2011

Head of Product at Once

Previously at Summit Public Schools, Outschool, Clever, Filepicker.io (YC S12)

Reach me at brettcvz@gmail.com http://brettcvz.com

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brettcvz··on Announcing the Ink mobile framework
We like to say expanded, but yes: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/15/inks-new-mobile-framework-l...
brettcvz··on Announcing the Ink mobile framework
Definitely! Let us know which apps you'd like us to work with.

Android has been a discussion for us - it has Intents, so at least there is a baseline for doing inter-app communication, but it's still not as good as it could be.

brettcvz··on Divshot 1.0: Visual Front-End Development for Bootstrap and Beyond
Absolutely fantastic product, well done guys
brettcvz··on Datastore API (beta)
Check out https://www.inkfilepicker.com/
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
For some of our larger customers we can CName, also the files are stored in your S3 so you can get direct access that way if you need to.
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
Speaking of which, you can now find us on github at https://github.com/ink
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
Mind sending a screenshot to brettcvz@inkmobility.com ? The content should be dynamically spaced to hint the text at the bottom of the page
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
Great! Let us know how we can help.

With the new name and logo, we wanted a brand that could grow with us as we build out more products beyond just picking files. Also, as we invest more resources in the design and user experience of our products, we didn't want the logo to not match the quality of the rest of the design.

brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
Us too! Let us know if there's anything we can help with
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
No, we definitely do not want to start selling user data. Our whole goal is to connect the applications and services that people use, making it easier for them to work with technology.
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M
For more information about the rebrand, see http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/53283166185/ink-work-togeth....

For all of our customers, we want to thank you for your continuing support, and are looking forward to this next stage in our company's growth.

brettcvz··on Show HN: Collage - Combine and frame your photos using Filepicker.io
Fully open source - code at https://github.com/Filepicker/collage
brettcvz··on Show HN: Codeblock.js - Editable, runnable javascript code blocks
Ha nice... well now there's two!
brettcvz··on Show HN: Codeblock.js - Editable, runnable javascript code blocks
This is dues to a memory/cpu "leak" because when you press reset it doesn't run "clearInterval". This could be done via introspection on the code to "undo" any running intervals/timeouts when the reset button is pressed, but the notion of "reset" is to reset the text, not reset the code, so leaving as is.
brettcvz··on Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
Timeilne: http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N18/explosions.html
brettcvz··on ZenPayroll launches modern payroll service for accountants and bookkeepers
Thank god! This has been one of the features we've wanted since signing up, glad to see it launched. Keep up the good work
brettcvz··on Chrome Inspector Detector
Also doesn't work on ubuntu (at least not with scrotwm)
brettcvz··on Show HN: Use your phone to present slides on any screen
Overall, very slick. I'd recommend also being able to upload a presentation from the phone (by selecting it from gmail, dropbox, etc) so I could do the majority of the setup on my phone and minimal on the presenting computer.
brettcvz··on Stripe partners with Parse to ease accepting payments in mobile apps
Today seems to be the day for YC developer tools partnerships. Anything from Meteor and Firebase?
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io + Zencoder
(can't reply directly due to nesting limitations)

Because we're so heavily client-side, we created a policy-based security api to allow you to control the actions allowed using the filepicker.js library, as well as actions in your developer portal that you can use to make things read-only, set the max allowed file size, etc.

https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/security/

brettcvz··on Filepicker.io + Zencoder
Shhh don't tell anyone! :D
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io + Zencoder
Yup, this partnership is more about providing demos and showing people in each of our respective communities how they can use the two services together. Fortunately both of our APIs were powerful enough already that we didn't have to write any additional library code to integrate the two
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io + Zencoder
This is a demonstration of how the two can work together, but in a production setup you'll want to do the following transformation:

Instead of getting the fpurl and passing that to zencoder via a $.ajax call, first pass it to your server and then hit zencoder server-side using one of their libraries.

brettcvz··on Filepicker.io + Zencoder
Quicklinks:

- demo: http://zenpicker.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dropzone...

- source code: https://github.com/zencoder/filepicker-zencoder

- Full tutorial: https://gist.github.com/sh1ps/e0884be21fb3f45cbddc or http://blog.zencoder.com/2013/03/20/look-ma-no-backend-uploa...

Edited to add zencoder blog post

brettcvz··on Write Better with Draft
We do!
brettcvz··on Filepicker.io Launches new Mobile Web experience
Note: known issue on Chrome iOS due to issues with cross-window communication inside WebKitView, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136610
brettcvz··on Using 'debugger' to help in javascript debugging
Just to preempt certain comments, I realize that many people have known this for ages, but there are many who have not, and to them this might just make their day.

Also, "+new Date" is neat

brettcvz··on Flutter: Control YouTube, Pandora, Grooveshark & Netflix via Gestures
Totally unrelated to the article, but you should CNAME your tumblr blog so that HN et al. show flutterapp.com
brettcvz··on How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python
We've been talking with the Close.io folks directly, but you may have experienced some slowness this weekend due to increased load. We're rolling out a new architecture soon that should address the issue for the next order of magnitude.

Regarding the response issue mentioned, we had a bug where we would not return the S3 key properly for a specific code path. The bug has since been patched and pushed to production.

brettcvz··on How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
I hate to be so self-promoting, but http://jsfiddle.net/GTYX5/2/ should do everything you're asking for
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