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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by dang »

1mbsite wrote: post #95
rgbrenner wrote: post #94

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He could have put "Show HN" in the title. But you seem unaware that this is one of the functions of this website. In fact, there's an entire section for it with a link in the header: https://news.ycombinator.com/show Show HN is suppose to be helpful criticism and feedback. Calling it a "shittier product" is entirely uncalled for. Not just for the language, but because it's entirely unconstructive. It helps no one.

I apologize for not using the proper title. I was unaware.

We've added it.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by dang »

winningcontinue wrote: post #72
joshmn wrote: post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

The problem is he's not marketing his product here on HN for his benefit. He's not writing up a post about his ideas and process of creating his product, just spamming the forum for exposure. The mods really have to crack down on this type of viral self serving marketing, or it'd just encourage more people to do the same. On top of that, it's a shittier product that other people have done and done better at the same…

Your comment breaks both the site guidelines and the Show HN rules. Would you mind reading them and following them in the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

aurora72 wrote: post #105
1mbsite wrote: post #101

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Thank you! You can’t self-host 1MB, but we do offer some open source software on our repo at https://GitHub.com/1MB

Sorry I have no time for closed-source things.

Fair enough! I just can’t make all my hard work open source.. I’m trying to build a business. There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

homero wrote: post #100
1mbsite wrote: post #13

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1. This tool allows you to deploy all files in your directory to your site. If you were using the API directly you’d need to deploy each file individually. 2. It was monetized in the past but Gumroad banned my account because they consider web hosts to be a risky business. I’m re-implementing Pro soon (more info: https://pro.1mb.site ) 3. It just seemed like the most logical way to store and retrieve data with JavaSc…

Sftp would be incredible

For security reasons I can’t, but I wonder if somebody could make a SFTP wrapper that uses the 1MB API.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by hopscotch »

1mbsite wrote: post #28
jszymborski wrote: post #26

Things I love about this: I would have given my left ear to have a similar service growing up. There were a billion "free hosting" sites that let you throw PHP scripts up on them, and "free mysql" hosts that let you have a couple of free tables of X rows, which give a 12yo an incredible head start when it came to web-dev. The downside is that those sites were trying to push scuzzy gambling sites or were soft targets…

Thank you for your kind words! In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB as long as you don’t delete your account and follow everything outlined on https://policy.1mb.site . Also pride ourselves in being more secure than your average free website host

Have you had a proper security review? I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective.

Like, it's OK that you didn't, but maybe you should check that your entire public API (all microservices, UI, etc) will really be secure.

You will probably struggle to get a secure interface while user content is served from the same domain as your UI.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by hopscotch »

1mbsite wrote: post #114
homero wrote: post #100

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Sftp would be incredible

For security reasons I can’t, but I wonder if somebody could make a SFTP wrapper that uses the 1MB API.

What security reasons?

You can totally have a secure sftp endpoint on your filehost.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

hopscotch wrote: post #115
1mbsite wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your kind words! In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB as long as you don’t delete your account and follow everything outlined on https://policy.1mb.site . Also pride ourselves in being more secure than your average free website host

Have you had a proper security review? I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective. Like, it's OK that you didn't, but maybe you should check that your entire public API (all microservices, UI, etc) will really be secure. You will probably struggle to get a secure interface while user content is served fro…

For reference @hopscotch appears to be referring to this post: https://forum.1mb.site/?t=1556326142930

I think the interaction in this forum thread says a lot about my focus on security. An issue was reported and I jumped on it immediately. I’m not going to sit here and claim to be perfect, but I am going to tell you that I work really hard to make sure I do stuff right and fix my mistakes ASAP. I have had white hat hackers review my API by the way and have patched reported security vulnerabilities.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by hopscotch »

aurora72 wrote: post #105
1mbsite wrote: post #101

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Thank you! You can’t self-host 1MB, but we do offer some open source software on our repo at https://GitHub.com/1MB

Sorry I have no time for closed-source things.

It's a static file host with a nosql database and a text editor. There's a very clear migration path if you don't want to use their service.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by voltagex_ »

ignoramous wrote: post #19

Super nice. Despite presence of weebly, gumroad, shopify, squarespace, carrd et al, there is something missing that would put the rest of world on web, I feel; much like how WhatsApp has replaced most modes of personal communication in one fell swoop over the years, and how Twitter has taken over micro-blogging (key point: Both are free). To do that, I guess, 1mb or similar businesses could add capability to create a…

WhatsApp is aggressively anti automation unless you're a big business. I'd definitely go for updates via email, though.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by voltagex_ »

IgorPartola wrote: post #77
TheRealPomax wrote: post #50

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Dude, if I just want to put a page online, the last thing I want to have to deal with is SSH... Have browser, will content.

SSH/SFTP is a standard protocol. Their API is not. Many more devices support sftp than their API. I don’t always have a browser, but I often have ssh.

I'm more often somewhere that blocks port 22 than port 80, but I get you
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