AVavree·Apr 6, 2012
Minus actually took it from Dropmocks, which was created by a Googler.
https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
http://www.dropmocks.com/
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2011 | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2011 | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2011 | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2011 | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2011 | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2011 | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2011 | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2011 | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2012 | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2012 | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2012 | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesI've been using it for ~6 months and have never encountered any limits, file size or bandwidth.
It is open source too: https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
In Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully.I haven't dug into this code at great length, but it looks like the images-only limitation is totally artificial, gated by the isImage method on line 23 of https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/blob/master/files/mo...
Anyways, Dropmock's server-side code is ~500 lines of Python, the bulk of app code is in JavaScript and comparing files like https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks/raw/master/files/moc... and http://min.us/smedia/minus/scripts/mock.js suggests that the heart of the "harder part" is still Dropmocks.
In College Cofounder of Min.us featured on IncI'm a little disappointed to see min.us making headlines—it started off as a fairly obvious clone of http://www.dropmocks.com/.
I guess min.us has built out their feature set a little more, and DropMocks was just a side project of Glen Murphey's (open source! https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks ), but all the same it'd be more heartening for original ideas if it was DropMocks that was getting this press.
[edit: In fact min.us is built on DropMock's source, in accordance with its very permissive license but without acknowledgement and a little tactlessly in my opinion. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/eailg/minus_code... ]
In College Cofounder of Min.us featured on IncI would very much like to have this auto-pull from Dropbox folders; it is something for another weekend.
I just posted the source:
http://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
In Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks