Cloudillo v0.8.11 — Scanillo, and Sharing With Anyone
A phone-camera document scanner, public read-only access, feed upgrades, and a PDF viewer
0.8.11 is out. The headline is a new app, but the change I keep thinking about is a quieter one near the bottom: you can finally share something with a person who doesn’t have an account.
Scanillo
Point your phone at a document. Scanillo finds the edges automatically with OpenCV, straightens it, and you’ve got a clean scan. No third-party scanner app, no “this app wants access to everything and also shows you ads.” The scan goes to your server and stays there.
The receipt-in-a-shoebox problem is real, and every existing fix involves trusting some random app with a camera and your documents. This one doesn’t.
Public read-only access
Here’s the quiet one. You can now share a document with anyone, account or not. They open a link and get real-time view access — to a document, a whiteboard, a task board, whatever. No sign-up wall, no “create an account to continue.”
This matters more than it looks. A collaboration tool that can only show things to its own members is half a tool. Sometimes you just need to send someone a link and have it work. Now it works.
The feed grows up
Three things. Drafts, so you don’t have to publish a half-finished thought the second you write it. Scheduled posts, so you can write now and post later. And emoji reactions, because sometimes a thumbs-up is the whole reply.
The feed is starting to feel like a real social space rather than a tech demo with a text box.
A PDF viewer
We built a canvas-based PDF viewer with proper zoom and swipe. Reads well on a phone, reads well on a desktop. And you can share a PDF as a post straight into your feed, so it shows up inline instead of as a download nobody clicks.
API keys
You can create scoped API keys from the settings UI now. This is the first real step toward integrations and automation — the boring, essential groundwork that lets Cloudillo talk to the other things in your life later.
Plus
An app package system (APKG) on the backend for installing third-party apps, a stack of file-handling improvements, and the usual quality-of-life round: undo/redo in the text editor, read-only mode for whiteboards, clearer DNS setup instructions, and stricter linting across the whole codebase. The last one’s invisible to you and saves us from a class of bug we’d otherwise ship to you.
Source on GitHub. Running your own instance? Thank you — genuinely. The network gets better every time someone new spins one up.