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Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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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.

Looks very smooth!

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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From your landing page, I don't understand what happens when you run `wsend file.txt`. Where does the file go?

It goes to a central server, similar to Dropbox, except when I built the service 8 years ago it was a little more open than Dropbox and it was accessible through the command line. 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!

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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> What were the steps 10 years ago that weren’t complex? I would really like to hear the answer to that! And why the 10-years-ago thing can't be done today.

I didn't say it was harder today, I asked: "why isn't it easier today?" I would think with improvements in tech, things would actually become simpler.

What was hard then that you're worried about needing to be "easier" today?
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