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I built a way to show a static site on there too: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-static
There are a lot of tools you can build on top of it as well because the core is simple: send a file, get a link.
Create a new site. Create a text file. Paste in your content. Hosted!
> why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago?
Interesting question. If it's easy, then probably you're putting your content onto someone else's domain. This leads to two issues (which are related).
1. The domain that's hosting your content can be legally responsible for it, so you have copyright and other legal issues which leads to them putting barriers in your way.
2. The host also might want to make money off your content, so they're going to want to control the ecosystem via things like logins, moderation, etc.
I feel compelled to tell you about my project https://wsend.net/ I built a way to show a static site on there too: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-static There are a lot of tools you can build on top of it as well because the core is simple: send a file, get a link.
> It got my wondering: why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago? What did the "easy" way look like 10 years ago? I don't recall any method that wouldn't require at least some manual steps.
The easy way 10 years ago was FTP or rsync. It seems like that's still the easy way. I'm wondering why nothing simpler/more automatic has popped up.
> It got my wondering: why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago? What did the "easy" way look like 10 years ago? I don't recall any method that wouldn't require at least some manual steps.
The easy way 10 years ago was FTP or rsync. It seems like that's still the easy way. I'm wondering why nothing simpler/more automatic has popped up.
I feel compelled to tell you about my project https://wsend.net/ I built a way to show a static site on there too: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-static There are a lot of tools you can build on top of it as well because the core is simple: send a file, get a link.
From your landing page, I don't understand what happens when you run `wsend file.txt`. Where does the file go?
I built something that was useful for me, 32,000 other people have found it useful as well, let me know if you have other questions as well. Thanks for checking it out!
I know, devil is in the details.
I just read this post on HN about Netlify Drop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254405 https://app.netlify.com/drop