Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file sharing service?

Posted by Fsp2WFuH on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Thinking of making a simple site for sharing files. As easy as imgur, you drag-drop, upload, and get a link you can share. But with a twist - you can only download once, preventing most DMCA takedowns and illegal activities (movie sharing).

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by LinuxBender on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:07PM (#17341266)

That limits the transfer to 1:1. Unless it is linked to from a popular site, I think you might find not many people will use it.

I created a couple of sites that let people upload any large file, all server side code, no javascript and people rarely use it. I've also created public anonymous sftp servers, but people don't use them. "too difficult".

Nowadays folks mostly use discord for chat and small images and box for bigger files because of the integration with their desktop and other clients.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by one87 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:22AM (#17346911)

https://www.justbeamit.com/ That's pretty much what you described

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by tothrowaway on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:06AM (#17352715)

https://send.firefox.com is another one.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by sharemywin on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:00PM (#17341209)

What would the use case be?

How would you monetize?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by Fsp2WFuH on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:04PM (#17341246)

You want to send a file to a friend, maybe a word file, maybe a movie. So probably up to 4GB in size. Something that could be too big for email, or too large for imgur to not compress it (images).

I'd advertise my other products, so it would be a loss leader for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by sharemywin on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:01PM (#17341228)

I'd probably make people register.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file shari... by Fsp2WFuH on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:07PM (#17341264)

Such a simple service does not require registration. Assuming you're mentioning this for reasons of logs/security/liability reasons, I'd probably just throttle. Maybe auto delete after 1hr after upload complete and no download attempts made, so server is always clean.

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