I grow more weary of how many clones there are in this space, especially considering how easy (and within character) it would be for drop box to flick the switch themselves on this.
yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...
This doesn't use dropbox to host content, just to share it with the hosting service. Unless Dropbox pulls the plug on "shared folders", which I doubt, I don't see such services going down.
I grow more weary of how many clones there are in this space, especially considering how easy (and within character) it would be for drop box to flick the switch themselves on this.
yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...
I'd like it if there was a Dropbox based Jekyll service. I could edit my file on any platform, and the site gets rebuilt to html using jekyll (or any other static-site-generator). This will make it as much powerful as GitHub pages, but without the additional git overhead (I'm fine with git, but not everyone is).
Harp.io does this (although with Harp not Jekyll). Using it to build a little web comic site[1]. Makes it easy for the author to upload new pages even though they don't know how HTML/FTP work.
In order to build a truly compelling service that solved our problems, along with others was to allow collaboration and sharing. Right now Dropbox has no way to share within sandbox style applications.
We have been talking with Dropbox about ways to improve their API and things are only getting better.
Right now we maintain the NodeJS API[1][2] and have sandboxing build in at that layer, so we don't even see any files from Dropbox outside of the folder we have scoped to.
Just create a free Dropbox account, use that one to sign up for Harp, and then share the Harp site folder with your main account. It's a nice way to ensure that Harp is sandboxed.
This is a good idea. I probably don't even have to link it to my machine? But wondering what I'd loose out on for ease of updating. Will try this later.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an VPS account, syncing the files using dropbox-cli, and then using nginx on the synced folder.
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What kind of things are you looking for?
yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...
[1] http://houseoforr.com
I don't know much about DropBox API, but is there a way to limit access to resource folders?
In order to build a truly compelling service that solved our problems, along with others was to allow collaboration and sharing. Right now Dropbox has no way to share within sandbox style applications.
We have been talking with Dropbox about ways to improve their API and things are only getting better.
Right now we maintain the NodeJS API[1][2] and have sandboxing build in at that layer, so we don't even see any files from Dropbox outside of the folder we have scoped to.
[1] github.com/sintaxi/node-dbox [2] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/sdks/other
You don't lose out on anything at all, I'm doing this very thing.
(inb4 downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)
just seems to me like making a mashup mess for its own sake, with little regard to the spirit of the service provided by dropbox.