I love the website and that you do not take yourself too seriously. Kudos to you!
Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
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#32I like this initiative. Best of luck ! PS : I guess there is a typo in the pricing options, the most expensive should offer 1TB instead of 1GB
Oh no, that's no typo (hence the "What do you care?") below.
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#33I love the website and that you do not take yourself too seriously. Kudos to you!
And I love you.
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#34I would like to know deeper how much shady are shady alternatives
I'm talking about things like Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web (I assume their mobile app does), and instead insists you "make a post" for their reddit-style social network thing. There are some other free alternatives, but they aren't very reliable, and it's generally been a bit frustrating because the elephant in the room is that image hosting doesn't make money unless the user pays.…
> Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web
They hide the upload from the mobile views but if you go directly to https://imgur.com/upload you can upload from there even on mobile.
I agree that Imgur has become quite terrible though, and I think it’s a consequence of offering the service for free as they do. They have a lot of users and serve a lot of traffic, and they need to cover their bills and make a living somehow.
I hope to see your paid service thrive and be able to offer a good service and user experience to those of us who are willing to pay. I think your service has a good chance of being able to succeed.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm talking about things like Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web (I assume their mobile app does), and instead insists you "make a post" for their reddit-style social network thing. There are some other free alternatives, but they aren't very reliable, and it's generally been a bit frustrating because the elephant in the room is that image hosting doesn't make money unless the user pays.…
If you want to talk about Imgur.com being shady, they make their mobile site slower on purpose than the desktop site... combined with multiple "download our app for a faster experience" ad plastered on it...
Yeah, I hate that :( Reddit does the same, plus their image service is just terrible.
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#36I thought about doing this as a form of easily managed passive income. But then I remembered: copyright takedown requests and child pornography. Keeping on top of bad actors with an image host sounds like a huge headache! And if you grow that means you have to hire people, and then how do you keep the price so low? Good luck!
Yeah, that's my worry as well. Hopefully the fact that people have to pay will curb that a bit, but yeah, I'm worried about it.
I would hope so. I imagine the child pornographers aren't too keen on handing over payment data with their names in.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that's my worry as well. Hopefully the fact that people have to pay will curb that a bit, but yeah, I'm worried about it.
I would hope so. I imagine the child pornographers aren't too keen on handing over payment data with their names in.
Yeah, I hope I won't have to get rid of the free trial or cryptocurrency payment, but I might...
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#38Nice work! I appreciate your tone, the project, and everything. Heck, I appreciate you man.
(Subscribing now...)
Also this is a great idea and really needed. It’s amazing that something so simple is hard to implement without the shady factor. Resist the temptation to grow and take VC and do all those things that will sour your soul.
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#39I would like to know deeper how much shady are shady alternatives
I'm talking about things like Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web (I assume their mobile app does), and instead insists you "make a post" for their reddit-style social network thing. There are some other free alternatives, but they aren't very reliable, and it's generally been a bit frustrating because the elephant in the room is that image hosting doesn't make money unless the user pays.…
When you choose a "private" post it mirrors the old functionality of imgur.