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It's not clear what we're doing on the landing page.

What is the subdomain? A subdomain of your domain? I'm assuming that, but I don't know...

What will happen when we connect our dropbox? Is that even what the submit button does?

Just some thoughts... great work otherwise!



If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it.

If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com.

Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/

Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.


Trying again...

If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it. If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com. Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/ Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.


This. I was really confused as to what was happening.


iradik replied to your comment but his reply is [dead], FYI.


Why is it dead?


You submitted two identical comments. When that happens the second is automatically killed. But meanwhile you noticed and deleted the first. I just unkilled the second.




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