adicu/cuprint — Issue #11: Dropbox! And Native Mobile clients?
Author: kuitang
Created: 2011-10-19 06:56:58+00:00
State: open

Hey guys, I just stumbled upon this site.

Now that I bought an iPhone, here's a use case I feel like we should implement:
- I finish typing a pset and generate the pdf. It's 3am, so I don't want to walk down to the McBain printer (which is most likely broken). Instead I save the file (where I save all my files) to my Dropbox.
- Tomorrow morning, I head to the math library to print out my file. But then I have to log in to Dropbox, which is a pain because my password is too good. Still, I have to navigate to the file, download it, etc. And the math library computers are SLOW.
- BETTER SOLUTION: On my way to class tomorrow I log in to my Dropbox from this site and click the pset to print. By the time I walk into math library, the document will be sitting on the print queue.
- Even better solution: native iOS and Android apps. Really just needs to send the file to the server, which takes care of routing to the printer, yeah?

Also, is this hosted anywhere? Coz for this to be of any use to anybody... we need to host it. I can help with that if nobody else is interested. I'd recommend running straight EC2. They give you free micro instances for a year!