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Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by oron »

Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net,

Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)

Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by Yeri »

oron wrote: post #2

Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net, Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)

Looks really nice. Nice interface. Perhaps add SSL?

Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by oron »

Yeri wrote: post #3
oron wrote: post #2

Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net, Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)

Looks really nice. Nice interface. Perhaps add SSL?

Thanks, Yes good idea SSL, will add it to the todos.

Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by geek90 »

oron wrote: post #6
geek90 wrote: post #4

Looks great and the whole idea is pretty neat but in my opinion as a user, the UI could use some improvement as in some cues pointing to the jar or something similar.

Can you elaborate? like an arrow or something that points there ?

As in an arrow or popup indicator getting the user's attention towards the jar. I understand the reason to keep it tucked away. But I clicked twice on the text appearing in the pictures(ads) hoping it leads to a howto or features page before I figured out that the jar contains link to the help/detail page.

Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by kartikkumar »

oron wrote: post #2

Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net, Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)

Nice idea. I think this has been posted on HN previously right (e.g., [1])? Would be good to know what the biggest changes are since then.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204126

EDIT: Added missing question mark.

Re: Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

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Post by oron »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #8

So tell us a bit more about the technology behind it. Where are the files stored? etc. Also curious as to why over 90% of your main homepage is a clickable area that takes me to dollarphotoclub.

nodejs on the backend. the files are stored on local disk and backed up on Google cloud storage. Dollarphotoclub is this month's promotion. The back drop will be a big advert to various brands and I chose them as the first as I took the big faces that promote dropjar from their collection.
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