DirtyShare
Web and SaaS
file sharing
SHOW HN2012
75points
25comments
#318of 1,677 in 2012
Top 19%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 3 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting concept for in-browser file sharing
From 2 comments
I really like the concept. I often have files i want to share with peers, and they're often in weird places on my desktop, not to mention are often quite large, and i often dont…
krmmalik on HNGreat stuff, and maybe also a step towards a content-centric web, which is indifferent about where content comes from, only that it's precisely what the audience requested.…
gojomo on HN
Objections
Not truly peer-to-peer because a central server sits in the middle
From 3 comments
Not really P2P - I see that you're aware of this and working on it. Really cool stuff. Why can't I drag-> drop files in?
chrisrhoden on HNSo is this not "true" P2P because a node.js server sits in the middle?
firefoxman1 on HNHaving a central server sit in the middle that all traffic goes through goes right against the very definition of P2P.
charliesome on HN
Drag and drop and uploads broken in current browsers
From 2 comments
Both of those things are TODO. Drag and Drop was working, but I broke it again (file input is handled differently in different browsers, which was a headache) and I just wanted…
Mizza on HNHeh. Well, mine wasn't completely arbitrary. If I remember correctly I was trying to trade off server CPU usage with memory usage. One chunk at a time is buffered on the server,…
adpowers on HN
Requests
Drag and drop file input
From 1 comment
Not really P2P - I see that you're aware of this and working on it. Really cool stuff. Why can't I drag-> drop files in?
chrisrhoden on HN
SSL transfers
From 1 comment
Great work. Do you guys host this yourself on EC2? Also, would be great to get SSL transfers.
nodesocket on HN
Saving files without prompting via local storage
From 1 comment
Do you know of a way to save the files without prompting? DOM localstorage is tiny. If there was a way to pull updates from your friends automatically and cache them, that would…
sedachv on HN
Questions
Can uploads be piped directly from POST to GET without websockets?
From 1 comment
Couldn't you just connect the uploader's POST to the downloader's GET request instead of using websockets?
robert-boehnke on HN
Alternatives named
Transfury
From 1 comment
I made almost exactly the same thing a few months ago: http://www.transfury.com/ The server is written in node.js and it uses socket.io to do the transfers. I think it only works…
adpowers on HN
ge.tt
From 1 comment
Try http://ge.tt
c10n on HN
Sendoid
From 1 comment
Kudos on the site! In an earlier version of Sendoid, we were doing exactly this to handle the "larger than reasonable" in-browser sharing issue. We had some privacy concerns at…
quartz on HN