Downloading attachments from emails you receive will be a needless extra step in the email experience if one participant in the recent TechCrunch Disrupt Conference has its way.
Ooberdocs [1] was one of the technologies built during the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon [2] and is a service that syncs with your email account, identifies email attachments in your inbox, and automatically transfers said attachments to a cloud storage service like Dropbox.
Today, Ooberdocs with between GMail and Dropbox, and some other web-mail services, but according to TechCrunch, the service will soon expand to Yahoo Mail, other email services, and other cloud storage services like Box and OneDrive.
Although Ooberdocs just debuted at the TechCrunch conference, the service is available on its website today, and it is available for free. That said, Ooberdocs is still a work in progress and is clearly labeled as a beta product, so users who feel they need to have their attachments automatically appear in their Dropbox should be aware that there could be bugs if they rush to sign up for the service.
It will definitely be interesting to see how Ooberdocs transforms over the next couple of months and to see if there is a market for having email attachments automatically appear in something like Dropbox. For users who receive a high number of attachments, or even more likely, receive automated emails with attachments like reports from an data or analytics service, having those attachments regularly and automatically loaded into a certain folder could be a major time saver.
One would also have to imagine that if market response to a service like Ooberdocs is positive, one of the major cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Box will be quick to acquire the young company.
Links
- ^ Ooberdocs (www.ooberdocs.com)
- ^ TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon (techcrunch.com)
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