Cloudup Blog

cloudup.com · Company blog · on HN since 2013

The Cloudup team, a file and media sharing service later bought by Automattic, writes about product launches, GIFs, CSS3 and Bitcoin prices.

What HN saysHN mostly links Cloudup to share screenshots and files in comments; there is little opinion about the blog itself.
40HN people shared it
32linked it in comments
22stories submitted
327story points
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Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Introducing MyDB from Cloudup
    2 people · 10 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    How to create high quality animated GIFs
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Bitcoin $500
    1 people · 132 points · first shared 2013 · 139 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Cloudup acquired by Automattic
    1 people · 78 points · first shared 2013 · 28 comments on HN
  5. 5
    Bitcoin HITS $400
    1 people · 42 points · first shared 2013 · 73 comments on HN
  6. 6
    The Need for Speed
    1 people · 20 points · first shared 2013 · 11 comments on HN
  7. 7
    How we made Zoom on Mobile using CSS3 & JS
    1 people · 13 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Signup form autocompletion with the Gravatar API
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    CA DMV website cautions against using Netscape
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
  10. 10
    Cloudup
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Google images has been hacked
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
  12. 12
    Open sourcing the Cloudup CLI application
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    How did Freschetta send me an anonymous email?
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
  14. 14
  15. 15
    Cloudup from the command line
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN

What HN people wrote when they linked it

busque · 2016-07-12
Thanks for the support. I'll get you a full list and have someone followup. Here is a quick screenshot of my customer portfolio so you can see some of the funds quickly. https://cloudup.com/c_kk6Zi5jC1
kevinSuttle · 2015-07-01
IBM Internet of Things. I'm hiring the most talented front-end developers I can find. We need developers who understand that well-written code and well-defined APIs are what drive the best UX. Ping me with original open source work and contributions. https://cloudup.com/cXTFuFL2SSU
caiob · 2014-01-30
https://cloudup.com/cSLcmVC5F9h <--- Def not a good example. hehe Great website, though.
southp · 2025-05-14
Congratulations on the launch! I'm impressed by how complete the overall product feels. I think that's the magic when one scratch their own itches: a highly-focused product that solves particular problems, and that's what I like about WorkFlawless. Do you plan to implement any kind of integration to the existing systems? I'm asking since, just like what you've experienced, every company tend to have their existing ways of maintaining these flows. e.g. embedded Figma in an internal wiki, or even generated artifacts using Mermaid in a Google doc. While WorkFlawless is doing a great job at being the unified source of truth, integrating into existing systems effortlessly would lower the barrier significantly. Also, I really like the idea of built-in revisioning, since that was one of the pain points of keeping flow charts up to date in many of my previous roles. One solution I had experienced was to maintain these charts as Mermaid scripts in a git repo, so there was a revision history and we could easily see what was changed. I feel it would also be a neat addition for WorkFlawless if one can diff between versions. Here are some further feedbacks on top of mind: 1. From my previous experience working on the upper funnel conversions, a good heurstic is that every one extra step we add to the onboarding flow, ~20% of people from the previous step will drop off. By the onboarding flow, I meant from the account creation to the actual product experience. I'd highly recommend you…
also_on_sunday · 2016-07-27
When a project is brand new it's definitely play time, but as it grows, matures, and more and more issues are opened up it can start to become work. It can get pretty difficult to maintain a healthy "work/life" balance as well when you have a full time job and now a new part-time, unpaid night "job" as the demand for features and bug fixes is 24/7. It can also be hard to say "no" frequently to well intentioned but off-target pull requests. I've received a few really nasty bug reports, one of which emailed me while I was out to dinner at my wife: definitely wrecked the evening. It is rewarding, but it can definitely get hard. This is a picture of my own inbox from earlier in the year. https://cloudup.com/cg2K9ikg_Av I literally get emails every day for issues and my projects are much smaller than the amazing moment.js. If you're not equipped mentally and emotionally to deal with the literally endless barrage of issues it gets pretty easy to feel overwhelmed. edit: updated to use proper characters for italics
withinboredom · 2024-02-13
Interesting. Where are you pinging from? I'm seeing much less https ping: https://cloudup.com/c47xyiOpV4g for https://statusduck.io/76687749-5690-48d9-9bd6-2f258f615978 and see ~500ms when curling from various places outside the EU.
kellenmace · 2022-05-25
Hey @bredren! Yeah, I agree that this makes for a nice user experience. This is how the paid VideoMentions.com service works- users can search for channels by name or keywords, without the need to paste in URLs. It looks like this: https://cloudup.com/cUgKqErcx8G That auto-complete lookup requires spending a finite number of API calls, though, which is why it’s restricted to customers and not available on this freely accessible VideoMentions Search page. Thanks for checking it out, and for your feedback!
andris9 · 2018-07-23
Mailcast is supposed to be simpler than usual newsletter software (there are no advanced marketing features) and it is self contained (no need to integrate with a MTA server or service). It can be used with large lists but it is not supposed be used like this if you do not want to spend a lot of time solving deliverability issues (sending to smaller lists is much easier to manage than large lists) Screenshots: https://cloudup.com/cpNpzlf3V5j
gtbcb · 2016-01-10
Yea, I need to collect some more data on price vs. no price in ad. It seems like a price point of $25 might work a lot better than $49 based on percentage of ads served and CTR - https://cloudup.com/c-Jy2nwWjQC
joe-mccann · 2015-09-22
Thanks brryant! We've been laser focused on community first, but that community _includes_ the enterprise. You can quite literally click a button to profile you app in realtime...no code modification required. https://cloudup.com/cNdDqLq_1sM
neom · 2015-07-30
^ Real talk. This https://cloudup.com/clkR99FLNgC/f is becoming a nightmare - I'd also value how other people keep their notes organized and understood.
laggyluke · 2015-06-15
You might like these options: https://cloudup.com/cJeKg7Zljwa
trustfundbaby · 2015-05-11
This is album view https://cloudup.com/cJvEFN0tMAv The difference was that you could turn it on in any playlist not just look at it in the "Albums" sidebar item
chrisabrams · 2015-04-18
I have no idea how to get started with your app. When I get to the app page, all I see is this: https://cloudup.com/c-7KrbFm_8g
callmevlad · 2015-04-06
Actually, that would not solve the issue that led me to offer the bounty. Check out the difference between the scrollbars in Webflow rendered across Webkit (Safari, Chrome, Opera) and Firefox: https://cloudup.com/c8K9RMqPeDn Note that not only does Webkit give you control over colors, it gives you control over the width/height of the scrollbar - which for us is critically important.
marcuskaz · 2015-04-03
Yeh, there's also one on the sidewalk there. Hopefully they keep both. I talked to one of the demolition guys and he said they are taking a few more of the buildings down in the area and being replaced with a new shopping center. https://cloudup.com/cRsaA-QRV6F
lucasjans · 2015-02-28
Why you're at it - can you unblock traffic from Vietnam? I know a few people here who want to order online (through a courier) but can't and aren't capable of VPNing. Plus, isn't blocking entire countries from accessing your site against the spirit of the internet? Edit: this is what we see from Vietnam - https://cloudup.com/cOLr9vimmIC
pauloteixeira · 2015-01-24
I don't use email client, I use gmail with two types on inbox (https://cloudup.com/cg0BjXIIg6P). I use only one type of start (blue info) to make things go my second inbox when I have no time for read or answer. Read this trick a long time ago on a blog post and really improve my gmail. My unique problem with gmail is the android app but I think that since last release it's really better. PS: always inbox zero, and have 4 emails going to my gmail account
pkrein · 2014-10-06
Quick example of how we use this at Segment... for each integration (https://segment.io/integrations) we need to create a vector logo. This got a bit tedious after the first 50 :) so we built nightmare + nightmare-swiftly so that our chat bot could "auto-generate" vector logos: https://cloudup.com/cEA-dTd3glM Hope it's helpful!
wilmoore · 2014-05-16
If you have Cloudup installed, that command sequence will also upload the screenshot automatically. https://cloudup.com/about
bjonathan · 2014-04-18
example image with code for the curious : https://cloudup.com/cwt9rS66Agu
prezjordan · 2014-04-13
Cool idea! Isomer, an isometric graphics library for HTML5 canvas. Screenshot: https://cloudup.com/ca2TeFocl6F I'm _almost_ ready to release. I've been working on the docs here (http://jdan.github.io/isomer/), but the code is still private.
joshrowley · 2014-04-04
looks like there are some issues with cloudflare/your server https://cloudup.com/cJLT_TN6ZsX
pyed · 2014-03-12
my AI won the game with a score of 20388 pic: https://cloudup.com/chDTLSElXDN
wonderyak · 2014-01-14
Just to belabor your well made point, here is an example of a final PSD I received from a 'professional agency': (from psdgrade.com) https://cloudup.com/c5RmHN8t1QZ https://cloudup.com/cmpmBEYg93c Thats 27 different font sizes for ONE PAGE of a site. I bet most of this was done through scaling layers to 'fit' into spaces. There were also 42 layers named some verson of <shape>-n.
jameszhang · 2013-12-08
That's neat, but is something wrong? I get this error on your site: https://cloudup.com/cti8Egu8fQS
rralian · 2013-11-22
Comment on the design of the homepage, there is nothing to visually draw the user's attention to content below the fold. When I loaded this page, it happened to be in a window at a perfect size to hide your overview content. I clicked around on a few pages before realizing it was on the homepage. https://cloudup.com/c8N5Zm4HnI5
gbadman · 2013-07-15
I think that making claims on the changing capital market climate based on historical P/E ratios may be measuring the wrong thing. A declining trend in P/E ratios may suggest a decline in valuations but it also may suggest a change in capital structure. Or it may suggest a combination of the two. It would be interesting to look at the trend for EBITDA multiples over time instead: https://cloudup.com/cHNL3Wcy5yH [1]. In this view, you can see that TEV/EBITDA ratios are very similar today to what they were in 1995 even though they took a very circuitous route to get there. 1: S&P Capital IQ (exported just now)

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