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Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by shib71 »

You should be explaining your value proposition on the first page. If I had gone just by what I read there I would have assumed that Uberzet was an alternative upload-and-get-public-link UI.

For everyone else: it is an index of the public Dropbox files of everyone who is signed up.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by chrisdroukas »

shib71 wrote: post #2

You should be explaining your value proposition on the first page. If I had gone just by what I read there I would have assumed that Uberzet was an alternative upload-and-get-public-link UI. For everyone else: it is an index of the public Dropbox files of everyone who is signed up.

It says that NOWHERE. I understand it's a weekend project, but there's absolutely no explanation of what Überzet does on the landing page.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by maqr »

Dropbox is in some serious need of better permissions.

* This app will have access to your entire Dropbox.

* Please make sure you trust this app before proceeding.

There's no way that I'm going to approve of access like that.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by sachleen »

I gave it a try to figure out what it was about (as others say, this should be explained on the main page) Pretty cool idea, but if I remove the app from my Dropbox, will it still have an index of my public folder? It wouldn't be able to index any new items, but I'm guessing the items in there already will remain in your index. Is this correct?

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by Dysiode »

I like the idea so I'd like to share my thought processes as I used it.

Firstly, I had a basic idea of what it probably was having heard about the hack involving file hashes a while back.

While it gets permissions for my entire Dropbox I was aware it only interacted with my Public folder. That's fine.

After signing up it wasn't obvious what to do next, even with the random link. I searched for a file that's in a folder with no luck. My first random file is one of my own. through that trial and error I figured out it only interacts with the top-level folder.

Personally, I organize my public folder. In fact, I have a "persistent" folder that I use to link to, to imply the links are largely non-transient. I'd love to be able to index folders of my choosing.

If you redirected to a page to control that it would be immediately obvious what's shared and what's not.

EDIT: As an aside, I found some pretty neat files I'd forgotten about!

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

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Post by uberzet »

google123456 wrote: post #8

crap i just crashed your server, sorry :(. I was playing with the download system, didn't want to crash it :(.

Interesting - I'm guessing you're they guy who uploaded 'cash.html' a link to 'donate to your startup' - then hammered it's /download GET request 1338 times to make it the most popular file on the system.

Whilst I am at fault for exposing this as a possibility on my system - I think it's seriously not cool to exploit a very unambitious weekend project like this for your own financial gain.

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