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Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by jonny_eh » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:07 PM UTC

ca98am79 wrote: post #6

Torgo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

THANK YOU for giving this an api I can use from Curl.

you are welcome, I am glad to have people using it - let me know if you have any feedback

In addition to the token returned, it'd be handy if it returned the full url as well.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by redwards510 » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

_nvs wrote: post #40

i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man ( https://github.com/kern/filepizza )

Thanks for sharing that, it is also very cool! I think the two projects have slightly different use cases though. Two things come to mind: * Sender and Receiver must directly connect using file.pizza, revealing IP addresses to one another. * Both users must be online at the same time with file.pizza, and be able to communicate in near real time to exchange the link.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by skj » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:27 PM UTC

chbrown wrote: post #13

tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.

Don't trust. Use a client that adds an encryption layer on top of file.io.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by ErikRogneby » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:37 PM UTC

"Also, no illegal files are allowed."

Is this a "(our lawyers made us put this in)" sentence?

It's not like there is a .ilgl file type, and with 1 time downloads DCMA takedowns are unlikely.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by cwmma » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

_nvs wrote: post #40

i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man ( https://github.com/kern/filepizza )

similar is https://instant.io/ which is bit torrent but in the browser

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by voltagex_ » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:46 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #37

tyingq wrote: post #29

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Maybe it failed because USE TOR -> PEDO :)

Lol at the downvotes. Not my fault that a privacy oriented filesharing service has a domain with the words use, tor, and pedo all in a row.

It doesn't add anything to the discussion. This isn't Reddit.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by stfnhh » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:53 PM UTC

I created a little CLI for it - https://gist.github.com/stfnhrrs/76b0e1df901a68c82f6b

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by flipcoder » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 6:56 PM UTC

Add a privacy policy

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by tyingq » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #46

tyingq wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol at the downvotes. Not my fault that a privacy oriented filesharing service has a domain with the words use, tor, and pedo all in a row.

It doesn't add anything to the discussion. This isn't Reddit.

^ And that did?

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by redwards510 » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

ca98am79 wrote: post #2

I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community

It's a very simple yet useful idea. It might be cool if you could specify your own link. That way you could tell someone in advance to check file.io/someLongRandomString in the future .