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Previously at Summit Public Schools, Outschool, Clever, Filepicker.io (YC S12)
Reach me at brettcvz@gmail.com http://brettcvz.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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
Also, "+new Date" is neat
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.