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Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#2If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#3If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
That was my thought as well. Not sure what the actual value is here.
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#4What's the biz model ?
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#5If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
That was my thought as well. Not sure what the actual value is here.
Especially since links can already be pretty private by default if they are random enough and not shared on any site where a crawler can access them. If you want actual security, you need to protect content on your end. If you don't really care and just don't want it publicly indexed, share it privately and keep it off the surface web.
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#7What's the biz model ?
I hear what you're saying, but people DO just put stuff out there for it to exist and aren't necessarily looking to monetize it. Crazy I know :)
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#8If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
I suppose it is the same concept as gumroad vendors. Most of them simply put an s3 url behind the gumroad paywall. Once you are done buying, the s3 url can be shared with anyone.
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#9If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
I ran a similar service when In was in high school. People were using it to distribute links in public settings that were meant for small circle of folks. Lots of club newsletters were distributed this way.
People also used it for selling files and things but as you've said it was trivial to defeat and only filtered out the least technical folks.
It was surprisingly popular.
Re: Show HN: Protect your links with a password
#10If it's just a redirect, isn't it going to be bypassed as soon as the first user shares the real URL?
I suppose it is the same concept as gumroad vendors. Most of them simply put an s3 url behind the gumroad paywall. Once you are done buying, the s3 url can be shared with anyone.
I think the S3 URLs typically expire after a bit, at which point a new one would have to be generated the next time you need to re-download.