I love how simple your site is. I hope is stays around. I would take everyone's advice and remove the animations. I and a few other people I showed it to in the office all had the same annoyed reaction. Everything else is great and seems to work!
Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
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#172I did something similar recently https://streambin.pl/ , you can upload whole directories but only when web-browser is on.
this is cool, I like the way the time limit is just built in with the life of the process. Perfect niche use case.
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#173I'm operating DropJar.om and I can say it's a big headache. For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints. http://dropjar.com
"For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints." Everyone I have shown Oh By[1] to has immediately wondered "Oh, could you upload an image instead of text ?". The answer is no and will always be no, for these reasons. It's evident right here on HN - limiting people to text weed…
I'm kinda curious whether one could "use" your service to upload 4k chunks of a base64 encoded image (perhaps by hitting the shortener using curl)...seems doable from a first glance?
Maybe you have something in place to prevent that?
If not - then I can envision an API of sorts that you could feed an image to, chunk it out, get the codes, then do the reverse...
...the thing is, if I can see this possibility - somebody else likely has long before me (I'd hope).
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that in the end, the way to really address these issues is with WebTorrent or a similar service. When you're online, you should be: 1. contributing your own bandwidth to the images you upload 2. contribute your own bandwidth to the images you look at. If you look at an image, maybe you should be required to seed it twice over. If you upload your image, maybe you have to seed it at least 10 times for it to sta…
Although the idea is great but I'm not comfortable with the legal implications of "seeding" the stuff I view. It might work in some legislations but I'd be putting myself in too much risk under my local law.
What if everyone "seeded" random content that others are browsing? Sort of like a Tor Relay for P2P traffic. Everyone assumes some small responsibility and yet could argue plausible deniability.
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#175This is pretty awesome - I really want to replace Filepicker as it's way too expensive for what I need. But I really like their embeddable widget that I can embed with a button click. Also I like all the sources for files rather than just a drag/drop or click upload. Can you support any of these features?
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Err, Hostr founder here. Not sure if I'm happy that it was mentioned, or sad that it went to crap :P
To crap was a bit exaggerated, sorry. :P Localhostr was great for a while for just uploading stuff without needing to bother with accounts or RapidShare's wait-a-minute-or-pay thing. It makes sense why you scaled back the free version (I can imagine that these services quickly get expensive to run..) and started requiring accounts. But personally that's the point where it was roughly equally annoying to upload to Hos…
Yeah, dropping anonymous uploads made my life so much better. I'm a solo founder of a side project, it's just not worth it.
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#178Great design & feature set. Feedback: the navigation bar at the top is quite unusable from an UE point of view. The positions of the icons (and therefore the hovering position) change as the mouse hovers them. It is quite annoying. Also, in the FAQ: "How can this be a free service? Magic" This sounds to me as: "stfu, don't ask, you are not clever enough to understand" or "there is some dirty way to get money from you…
I agree with both comments, especially the faq language. Often times, lightheartedness in the tech space comes across condescendingly. A simple explanation here would suffice...and if it is truly magic, I'm all in.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although the idea is great but I'm not comfortable with the legal implications of "seeding" the stuff I view. It might work in some legislations but I'd be putting myself in too much risk under my local law.
What if everyone "seeded" random content that others are browsing? Sort of like a Tor Relay for P2P traffic. Everyone assumes some small responsibility and yet could argue plausible deniability.
I believe Freenet and IPFS are both built on this idea.
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#180I don't see a DMCA link... that might be problematic for you in the future, legally speaking.