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Web Developer, Game Developer, creator of https://wsend.net and https://www.ireadthisweek.com
I read HN a lot, this topic always comes up so I said “I’m going to build a site that makes these readers happy. Take all their advice, no JS at all. Everything done in HTML. Everything they’re asking for” Turns out the hardest thing to do is to get people to use your site.
I wrote a post very similar to this comment that you might be interested in reading. I broke down what takes time to load, how fast the browser determines something has loaded, and how fast the user can perceive the page loading. I ended up having to take a high speed video and measure frame by frame the time it took to load for user perception.
https://www.ireadthisweek.com/author/ireadthisweek/post/2022...
The TLDR is it takes longer than reported.
Builder here, I read a lot of HN posts about blogging and I took all that feedback and built a site based on everything I've been reading about. I hope you check it out and let me know if you have any questions, Thanks!
It goes to a central server, similar to Dropbox, except when I built the service 8 years ago it was a little more open than Dropbox and it was accessible through the command line.
I built something that was useful for me, 32,000 other people have found it useful as well, let me know if you have other questions as well. Thanks for checking it out!
I feel compelled to tell you about my project https://wsend.net/
I built a way to show a static site on there too: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-static
There are a lot of tools you can build on top of it as well because the core is simple: send a file, get a link.
I wrote this a while ago and full disclosure I am the maintainer of this repo and I run the service, but I wanted a way to do full end to end encryption that was easy for me to use
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
The downsides are it's command line only, the upsides are you can audit the source and the encryption happens before it leaves your machine. Just wanted to share it with you in case you were interested. I'm a Signal user as well and I like what they are doing too. I have some friends who only exchange messages with me on Signal.
I run a similar project like this, I have for the last 8 years, it's pretty bare bones but you can build on top of it: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend
Yes, I had wanted to learn about multithreading in Python at the same time I had previously read this story. I built it, it worked, but took a reaaaaly long time, it was fun! https://github.com/abemassry/crazip
A quick and easy way to send files from the command line.
Tech Used: Bash, Node
Statistics: 612 users, 7 paying customers
History: I started working on this in Jan 2013, I wanted a quick way to send files from the command line and get a URL. I later found after building this backend, I, or anyone could expand upon it in many ways
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-twitter-card
A little more about how it was built is in this post
http://abemassry.com/blog/2014/02/14/building-wsend/
I have some more ideas as well, if anyone has any ideas or wants to work on this with me I would definitely be down for it.
I thought about it, but according to the other commentors here a project like this wouldn't make sense. I was learning python at the time and I wanted to learn about multithreaded programming in python.
I could turn it into a learning project with no practical applications. It would be a good platform to learn about OpenCL, and see if the benchmarking times improve.
Also had a similar thought experiment, went and built it. Thanks for the other commentors as well I should link to this HN page in the README.
My project is only tangentially related but a little similar. https://github.com/abemassry/wsend deletes after 1 month.
We should team up, I'll contact you offline.
You might be interested in this client side encryption I worked on if you're looking for something like this https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg it is a command line app though, I couldn't get it to work in the browser.
You might be interested in this project I worked on https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg it's end to end encryption, there's no settable timeout but there is a delete command so something like what you're saying might be possible.
I've already posted below but wanted to share this with you incase you're interested.
For something similar check out: https://wsend.net
I started this project https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg and while it's not the easiest to use I'm sure it can be improved. There's no key exchange either but there has to be a quick and easy solution that people can use if we work on it a little more.
I wrote https://github.com/abemassry/crazip in python and it was challenging to find out how to do multiprocessing effectively, not sure how this would run if implemented in other laungaues.
Not exactly what you're looking for but it's similar https://wsend.net
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wsend.net is an easy way to send files from the command line. Trying to figure out how to get more people using it. Tell your friends about it / Tweet it out
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Another one with a server in the middle: https://wsend.net/upload
I've attempted to solve this problem for the command line with https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
I haven't had any ideas on how to make it easier to use for people that use windows / don't use the command line. Maybe some type of GPG implementation in javascript for the browser, looking for any ideas / help
I'm working on this small project, it might be less friction, probably not zero. I'd be interested if you had any thoughts on how to improve it. It's using GPG for end to end encryption.
for a free similar service check out:
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
its a little different premise, but worth checking out
I wrote this command line tool to use gpg, I would like to work with someone that's interesting in making it available to non command line users.
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
Check it out and contact me
Yeah, the command line tool was really easy when I used it as part of my project https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
I've also seen them called creepers. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Princess-Creeper-Snapsuit/dp...
I was going for ease of use and encryption. This install procedure is not secure and people should review the source, but the more steps there are the less likely people are to use some type of encryption.
I would like to use a package management tool in the future.
This is awesome, we made a realtime news like this http://mashrd.com would love to work together.
$2.50/month from https://wsend.net I'm working on growing it and developing add ons that use it as a backend. No day to day work, 1 hour of server maintenance a month approx.
File Transfer http://xkcd.com/949/