Going to use https://github.com/react-dropzone/react-dropzone … for the dropzone. I've used it before and it's mega simple.
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Boom. This is how simple it should be. Drag in the image, and a url appears straightaway. (I deliberately slowed it down a bit to show off the loading animation too).pic.twitter.com/ZHjf8v2iPE
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Going to have a think about where this app will store the images. Amazon S3 makes the most sense as it's what I'm used to. Also, need to think of domain name...
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I've found the dream domain.. https://drop.media/ . It's like the domain gods are looking down on me. Quite pricey though,
, but memorable...pic.twitter.com/VzS5BfpQTR
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Okay, http://drop.media it is. Going to get all this hooked up and have it serve images from a CDN subdomain. Realistically, this service cannot be completely free, it'd cost me a fortune.
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We're moving along!
@Flip_Turner has got involved and created a slick login flow where you can store your images and reference them later. Limits are pure hypothetical at the moment, need to sit down and figure out what's appropriate.pic.twitter.com/RiXf3Nx0dP1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Also, got the CDN working through AWS Cloudfront and S3. The image uploaded in the video is https://cdn.drop.media/3f594d8a-235b-42ef-8674-711b1aaeea22.jpeg … Tech involved so far: Laravel, React, react-dropzone, react-photo-gallery, AWS Cloudfront and S3. On to billing and figuring out costs...
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Quite like the idea of charging the same as a large cup of coffee per month $4.15 for 500 images.
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Excited to put this into production tomorrow. Few tweaks to be made here and there, but hopefully the beginning of my (and now
@Flip_Turner's) tiny little image hosting platform that puts simplicity first.
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We're more or less ready, but
@stripe are taking quite a long time to verify our account :(2 replies 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread
Sorry to hear this. We'd like to help in any way that we can. Mind sending us a DM?https://twitter.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=102812444 …
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