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sz4kerto
Really cool, but I am not sure how this site is going to have a different future to the others. It has no ads, it's free, it offers direct linking -- how're you going to make money to sustain yourself?
httpete
I was thinking about displaying a full background image ad (a wetransfer like ad) on the home.
brokenparser
So you have to click on the ad to select a file? Or would it support drag and drop only?
httpete
Nope, the ad would be the background and there would be a upload zone in the center.
Kudos
There's no money in advertising to uploaders, the only money in this is advertising to the recipients. That's a lesson it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn.
dalore
That's exactly how imgur started though.
Kudos
Imgur had a partnership with a CDN, this guy is just hosting it on an OVH box.
city41
imgur filled a needed gap at the time and helped millions of Reddit users. I think drp.io would need a similar circumstance.
yashg
Neat. I like that you are using OVH to host instead of AWS. Way cheaper. Are you deleting the images ever?
izolate
So, tell us about your dev stack.. This is HN after all
httpete
Nothing fancy, symfony2, MySQL and some jquery. But I am working on a nodejs/mongoDB version of this :)
ing33k
whats wrong with sf2 ?
httpete
Nothing really, it works well... but a bit heavy for such a small website.
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m4r71n
Is there an API that can be used for uploading with e.g. curl? Other than that, looks nice and simple.
httpete
Nope :( I am currently working on a node-webkit client for windows.
kennywinker
Something that could be used with Tweetbot would be great! I'm not particularly happy with any of the options I'm aware of (imgur is not one of them).

I've attached their spec for quick reference:

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HTTP POST which includes the Twitter OAuth Echo headers (described http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_echo)

POST includes the following fields:

    - message: text of the tweet
    - source: "Tweetbot for iPhone"
    - media: JPEG or MP4 data with a mime type of image/jpeg or video/mp4 and a file name of either image.jpg or movie.mp4
response should be in one of the following formats:

    - <mediaurl>URL</mediaurl>
    - { url: URL }
    - { mediaurl: URL }
Their cited example: https://mlkshk.com/upload
gergderkson
I made something similar a while ago while I was learning some jQuery. It only uses pasting from clipboard as I use it for sharing screenshots. And chrome only at the moment. http://quickscreen.me/
httpete
Nice feature, I should implement it :)
saltcod
Cool! I was actually thinking of trying to make something exactly like this to as a learn-Javascript project.

Could you talk about how you made this a little? Really appreciate it.

kmfrk
I'm sure the creator meant for the vowel-disembowelled name to mean "drop", but I keep reading it as "derp" - which in no way makes it worse!
liotier
Coming soon from the Reddit crowd: hrp.io
ivanche
It's even worse - in serbian slang, "drpio" means "he stole [something]" :)
thejosh
Bug where drag and dropping an image reuploads it.
httpete
Actually, it is done on purpose. It is a feature which allows you to drag and drop a new image on a file page... but I understand it might be disturbing !
Kudos
Allowing direct linking to binary files is a recipe for malware disaster. It's not going to take long for malware uploaders to start using the site to host drive-by malware payloads.
teddyh
No IPv6 support. ☹
hbz
Really great image host workflow.

I'd love to see the source of this (or something similar) so I could implement it privately. Any ideas?

drdaeman
Nice, but is this any different from other image hosting sites?
httpete
harder, better, faster, stronger
astrojams
Clicking in the "direct link" field should auto-copy the link into the clipboard.
isxek
No way to delete uploaded images?
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