Put it in the Dropboks

A friend of mine created a simple web app that falls in the "yeah, i was going to do that... some time.. when i have time.. right, any day now" category. But you know how it goes, you just wish someone did it and you never get around to it.

It's a web page for uploading all those files that you need to lug around various computers you use in different locations. As a geek, i generally end up scp'ing things to my server. But that only works if the machine has scp, etc. I tried iFolder for a while, but it just never worked reliably for me and ask me for my password every time i reboot, even though i tell it to remember me each time.

And sure, there are a ton of file upload but most of them are rich on features, and with that need for configuration, and I just never bother setting up an account. If I had built my own, i'd have started down that road as well, with a nice API, advanced user and group system, ways to mount the file system on the desktop, and would have just got bogged down in the complexity.

Dropboks does just one thing, but it does it immediately and it does it extremely well. It's brilliant in its simplicty and it's gonna be immensely useful to me.