File.io
Infrastructure
file sharing
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
8 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 11 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Privacy: 1 for, 7 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, clean, no sign-up; usable from curl with an API
From 3 comments
THANK YOU for giving this an api I can use from Curl.
Torgo on HNVery nice, no sign up, no nonsense.
cmdrfred on HNLove this service -- beautiful site, simple docs, simple API, great concept.
rdegges on HN
Objections
Privacy and trust: no privacy policy, no technical details on deletion, hosting operator unclear
From 4 comments
tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to…
chbrown on HNNo privacy policy, no technical details on how the files are stored / "securely deleted" / etc., no definition of what "illegal" means (i.e. which…
yellowapple on HNAdd a privacy policy
flipcoder on HNData remanence is a really hard problem. Are you sure this lives up to your claims that "the file is completely deleted without a trace"? How are you storing them? Do they ever…
bascule on HN
Link previews by Slack, Facebook and similar bots consume the one-time file before recipients download it
From 2 comments
It might be a bug (could be a feature?) but when I paste the link into Slack, Slack visits the link and then when a contact goes to download it, it's already been deleted. Love…
coffeecheque on HNDon't try to share the link via Facebook though - Facebook will visit the URL and gone is the file.
currysausage on HN
Legal risk from illegal content hosted on the service
From 2 comments
Pastebin for binary files? By the look of things, clean and easy to use? Handy! It's probably time to start thinking about ways to monetise this to pay for the hosting costs at…
rwallace on HNCute. 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…
pjc50 on HN
Requests
Configurable expiration times shorter than one day
From 2 comments
What is the filesize limit? and is there any LESS time limit? like hrs? or days?
motyar on HN1. Nice implementation of a potentially useful micro service. 2. Nice domain name. 3. You should put more details in your FAQ like "no, this is not guaranteed to be a perfect…
russellbeattie on HN
Multiple downloads allowed per file
From 2 comments
Nice service. You should considered a default expiration (a week?) to lighten the load, and an option for multiple downloads (?dl=3) so the first n get a copy or multiple tries…
irq-1 on HN1. Nice implementation of a potentially useful micro service. 2. Nice domain name. 3. You should put more details in your FAQ like "no, this is not guaranteed to be a perfect…
russellbeattie on HN
Client-side encryption
Custom link names and returning full URL from API
From 2 comments
It's a very simple yet useful idea. It might be cool if you could specify your own link. That way you could tell someone in advance to check file.io/someLongRandomString in the…
redwards510 on HNIn addition to the token returned, it'd be handy if it returned the full url as well.
jonny_eh on HN
Questions
What is the file size limit?
From 1 comment
What is the filesize limit? and is there any LESS time limit? like hrs? or days?
motyar on HN
Is the source available?
From 1 comment
Where's the source?
FOSSbot on HN
Alternatives named
file.pizza (WebRTC peer-to-peer transfer)
From 1 comment
i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man…
_nvs on HN
transfer.sh
From 1 comment
Very nice. Also very similar to https://transfer.sh/
calebm on HN
curl.io
From 1 comment
https://curl.io/ has been doing that for a while. 20GB file size limit, deleted after 4 hours. I've used it here and there and its useful for quick, temporary storage.
ac29 on HN
filebin.net
From 1 comment
Personally I use http://filebin.net/ which has nice and simple looks and uses Drag & Drop for easy uploading. Source available at : https://github.com/espebra/filebin It is made…
xt on HN