Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.

by ogdr • 14 years ago

15 21 14 years ago

It's ugly, but hey! It serves its purpose, and you can't get stuck in the polishing nest after all! New design/features will come as they are requested by the community. Keep em' coming!

weisser• 14 years ago

I like how simple this is. Make it so I can copy the URL that you generate on my iPad. The photo upload is quick and easy so once you fix that this could be useful.

I find it hilarious that you mention .wma - you truly are old-school.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

Thank you!

I removed the readonly attributes - Try and see if it works now! :)

wiradikusuma• 14 years ago

Small correction: "You must chose a file to upload" -> choose.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

Thank you! Fixed.

paromi• 14 years ago

how long will the files be stored?

ogdr7• 14 years ago

They will be stored until they're not downloaded for a year or so. We'll calibrate the parameters along the journey, so I really can't say right now, but we'll definately let you guys know!

tmchow• 14 years ago

Feedback: the text box you're using to show the shareable URL to the image is impossible to select and copy from on an iPhone.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

I think it might have something to do with the readonly="readonly" attribute. I'll check it out!

ChrisNorstrom• 14 years ago

Very nice and simple. But that's quite an expensive tld you've got there. That's going to add up over the years. Unless you're using a much cheaper registrar .st domains are about $75/year I think.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

Actually, they're not that expensive. The .st TLD is maintained by Bahnhof, a Swedish internet provider ( they are actually pretty cheap. Check out www.nic.st , they cost about 45USD/Year there).

Skywing2• 14 years ago

I don't see any ads anywhere, and this service looks entirely free. It's not cheap to host large files for people en masse, especially since you allow up to 250MB. For example, if this were hosted using Amazon's S3, somebody could literally just upload a lot of 250MB files and directly hit your wallet. How do you plan to keep this service afloat?

Kudos4• 14 years ago

I'll bet they work in the hosting industry and they're just using spare capacity for this.

Skywing2• 14 years ago

I guess I just don't understand that logic. I also work in a hosting-focused industry. We host large amounts of files for paying customers in a much less sexy industry, but we still revolve around file hosting. As a result, we have a lot of storage space and at times we have a lot of free storage space. What would be the benefit of letting people upload files to our open storage and then download them, as well, entirely for free? Seems like it'd only really "get your name out there", but with a lot more downsides than that.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

We have a few other hidden upload limits, and we'll probably use ads later on to solve the financial issues, but right now we're trying to estimate the interrest of the service in general.

Kudos4• 14 years ago

Speaking as the operator of a similarly themed site, allowing drive-by downloads is a huge target for malware uploaders.

ogdr7• 14 years ago

So how do we solve this? By only allowing hotlinks on Images or similar?

Kudos4• 14 years ago

That's precisely what I do. You probably also want to scan the files for viruses at the time of upload and at regular intervals. I use ClamAV and F-Prot.

alexkearns• 14 years ago

How do you intend to make money? You could end up with a significant server bill if lots of people start using the service.

Great service, btw!

james33• 14 years ago

Why is this better than using one of the many other services that do the exact same thing? Like, say, http://ge.tt (not affiliated with them, but just a personal favorite).

dancablam• 14 years ago

Looks like an old-school version of http://drop.pr

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