Till I left Amazon, he stayed one the first people I’d go to for bouncing ideas off of, and he was great at improving an idea or showing me a better alternative. Brandon was a life saver frankly, and a tremendous help in everything. Thankfully, the Uploader product was solid enough to go through a couple major enhancements including the major refactoring to the Importer version.īy the time the Importer was on the schedule, thankfully, we hired Brandon Skeen to the team. Knowing the challenges and good parts of CPWeb and the Uploader, I was playing with new ideas for a better, larger product which eventually got wrapped into the Cloud Player Desktop product, but that took a couple years to actually come to fruition. The next goal after launching was actually to work on the replacement product since v1 was partly only intended to support the launch of CPWeb and not live long after that. I’d like to post some pictures of the Uploader, but it’s already been replaced by the Importer, so I don’t have access to it anymore. I didn’t have time to play around and test ideas like I did with CPWeb, so I had to choose those improvements carefully so that I was sure there’d be a positive improvement. Thankfully, I’d learned a lot from doing CPWeb, and made a few improvements to the Uploader framework based on that experience. This was tough because we needed to move quickly to not delay the CPWeb launch. The main use case for the product is scanning of a user’s computer for music files that can be uploaded, and most important in that process is recursive file scanning, which is why we couldn’t just do it in the browser.
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That decision definitely enabled us to get started quickly, but had a number of drawbacks including the supporting debug tools were useless for us and many people just hate Adobe Air/Flash – especially Mac users. A couple other engineers had made this decision before I took over the project.
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The basic product would be built in Adobe Air – you have to install that when you install the Uploader.
I actually had to interview and pick a crew of contractors to do this with me at the start because we didn’t have the head count at the time to use Amazon engineers. This started off really fast as we needed a quick solution to launch with the the Amazon Cloud Player, web version (CPWeb). My second major product at Amazon was the MP3 Uploader, which later became the Music Importer.
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