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Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by ca98am79 »

motyar wrote: post #3
ca98am79 wrote: post #2

I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community

What is the filesize limit? and is there any LESS time limit? like hrs? or days?

I think the file size limit is currently 500MB, but I may try to increase this at some point. There isn't any lower time limit than one day right now, but thanks for the feedback - it would be cool to have, so maybe I can add it soon

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by pjc50 »

ca98am79 wrote: post #2

I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community

Cute. Potentially useful. It would, of course, be a disaster for you if its use took off and you ended up handling a lot of illegal material, or even if it were enough of a success that you used a lot of bandwidth.

The oneshotness of it does mitigate that a bit. If someone wants to share material with N people they have to upload it N times, which rate-limits (ab)use.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by pjc50 »

ca98am79 wrote: post #5
motyar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the filesize limit? and is there any LESS time limit? like hrs? or days?

I think the file size limit is currently 500MB, but I may try to increase this at some point. There isn't any lower time limit than one day right now, but thanks for the feedback - it would be cool to have, so maybe I can add it soon

Time limits of a few minutes would be useful, but if you do that make sure you time from upload complete to download start and don't expire things in the middle of a download.

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by theunixbeard »

From the username I noticed the creator is also the owner of http://park.io --- a cool domain dropcatching service for .io, .ly, .to, and .me domains.

The one time I had a support request it was dealt with promptly by the founder himself.

Be careful though --- I got the bright idea to be an amateur domain speculator... So far I've spent a cool $1000 on 10 domain names and am now discovering flipping them is harder than I thought!

Shameless self-plug for anyone who might be interested in my portfolio: http://cerebral.io

Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

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Post by ca98am79 »

theunixbeard wrote: post #9

From the username I noticed the creator is also the owner of http://park.io --- a cool domain dropcatching service for .io, .ly, .to, and .me domains. The one time I had a support request it was dealt with promptly by the founder himself. Be careful though --- I got the bright idea to be an amateur domain speculator... So far I've spent a cool $1000 on 10 domain names and am now discovering flipping them is harder th…

haha, thanks for using park.io! I'm glad you were pleased with the support, it is important to me. Best of luck selling the domains - you have some nice ones
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