Rhea is a status bar utility for the Mac that allows you to quickly and easily upload files and shorten links, similar to CloudApp and Dropshare. It uses Dropbox (powered by TJDropbox) for file storage and the Google URL shortener for shortening links.

You can drag files into the status bar to upload them to Rhea.

Or, if you have a file path or file URL copied to your clipboard you can upload it via Rhea’s dropdown menu.

Dropbox short links (db.tt) are copied to the clipboard while files are being uploaded in the background, so it’s very quick.

• The API one uses to copy a short link while an upload is occurring is deprecated by Dropbox. May have to move to another endpoint at some point.
• A 4-character base 62 suffix is appended to all uploaded files to avoid filename conflicts.
• It is recommended that you use Dropbox’s selective sync feature to disable the Rhea directory from being synched to your Mac.

You can drag links into the status bar to shorten them.

Or, if you have a URL copied to your clipboard you can shorten it via Rhea’s dropdown menu.

• I chose to use the Google URL shortener because it doesn’t require authentication, whereas bit.ly does. I may add bit.ly support at some point.

• Rhea is open source, however the Dropbox and Google API keys used in the eventually-shipping version aren’t present in the open source repo. In order to develop Rhea you’ll need to provide these keys by filling in kRHEADropboxAppKey, kRHEADropboxRedirectURLString, and kRHEAGoogleKey.
• Rhea uses git submodules, so run git submodule update --init when cloning.