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Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by jclos »

cyberferret wrote: post #12
t3ra wrote: post #11

How do you plan to compete with older (& less crappy) services like mediafire? Also tonnes of decent ad supported options with no crap like wait time and million popups like Openload Zippyshare AFH (oh and site looks & performs great! Best of luck for future)

> compete with older (& less crappy) services like mediafire? Did you mean to infer that MediaFire was less crappy than this showcased one? Or crappier than this one? Your follow up sentence would indicate the latter.

I think he/she meant the less crappy among the older services.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by mrspeaker »

Just in the way of feedback (and I might be really out of the loop/not your target market!) but here was my brain-in-action after I clicked on the link from HN:

"Hmm, this looks pretty... what is it for?

It has a huge area that says "click here or drag and drop to start uploading"... but uploading what? And why?

Let's scroll down and read the 'about'!: "Fast", "Compatible", "Encryption"... um... ok but WHY?! Is it personal file storage for me (Like Dropbox?) or is it like a public FTP server? Or something else? If I drag and drop my tax return there is it suddenly shared with the entire world? Why do I want this thing?! Back to the HN comments to find out more!"

Something like that anyway! According to the comments it seems to be more like a rapidshare/mega thing - and now that I get it I'll keep this site in mind for sure!

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by [deleted] »

NoFile wrote: post #17
arekkas wrote: post #5

What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? What's your business model? How do you want to keep DMCA claims at bay? Does this work mobile?

What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? The main difference is that nearly all of these hosts specialize in a specific type of storage. As an example MEGA forces all users to client-side encrypt files before uploading which is useful for sensitive files, but it comes with the cost of incompatibilities with older browsers and devices which can't decrypt/download the files. Uplo…

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Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by daemonk »

I like it. But I would like a more concrete answer to how long the files are kept. "As long as possible" is not really a great answer. I don't expect it to be there indefinitely, but something like "For at least 5 days. And no guarantee longer than that" would be fine with me.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by NoFile »

ferbivore wrote: post #22
NoFile wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? The main difference is that nearly all of these hosts specialize in a specific type of storage. As an example MEGA forces all users to client-side encrypt files before uploading which is useful for sensitive files, but it comes with the cost of incompatibilities with older browsers and devices which can't decrypt/download the files. Uplo…

At the moment there is no revenue source. So what makes you think your fate will be any different than that of all the other free file hosts that have had to resort to advertising in order to survive?

The site will simply not operate with large margins like other sites. The cost of keeping the servers and development running will be covered by a premium plan that's targeted to heavy users.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by saycheese »

NoFile wrote: post #17
arekkas wrote: post #5

What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? What's your business model? How do you want to keep DMCA claims at bay? Does this work mobile?

What's different to so-called 1-click hosters (rapidshare, mega, uploaded, ...)? The main difference is that nearly all of these hosts specialize in a specific type of storage. As an example MEGA forces all users to client-side encrypt files before uploading which is useful for sensitive files, but it comes with the cost of incompatibilities with older browsers and devices which can't decrypt/download the files. Uplo…

>> "there will be a more humane premium plan"

In plain-English, what does this mean?

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by fcremo »

I might be wrong, but it seems to me that the encryption key for the file is the truncated SHA256 hash of the file itself. This is not how you want to generate an encryption key.

Edit: also, password protection is enforced server side, and has nothing to do with encryption

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by [deleted] »

metachris wrote: post #27
zhan_eg wrote: post #7

"Encryption - Protect Your Files Protect sensitive files with encryption. Only users with the URL will be able to view it. " This is not encryption - you should change the copy to tell what encryption is used (AES-128 from the info here), even if it's beta. Some more information on that will be welcome.

https://nofile.io/security/ "Your file is first securely encrypted using a secret key (AES-128) with Javascript on your device. Once it has been encrypted, the encrypted data is uploaded to a NoFile storage server over a secure HTTPS connection preventing any malicious users from seeing what you're uploading (as an extra layer of security). Only those with the secret key (which is in the URL) will be able to see the…

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