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Show HN: Dissipate - Free ephemeral cloud storage
- typable 13y agoJust a side project. Hope you can get some use out of it
- jjkmk 13y agoWow, this is one of the smartest ideas I have seen. I can see this blowing up like Imgur.
- typable 13y agoAlso, any UI or UX feedback would be appreciated since my goal was to make it as simple as possible to share a file. Thanks in advance
- mieses 13y agoon the visual design (not so much ui/ux) the over-use of cloud imagery feel cheap and dull. i would suggest removing all graphics, color and typography to bare minimums (black/white/greys, one simple font). for the image, drop in a simple canvas/javascript/processing.js particle system to illustrate dissipation .. a cloud of white pixel-like particles dissipating .. not requiring interaction. from a google image search for "dissipation": http://thelarkeyexperiments.com/category/dissipation-studies/ http://thelarkeyexperiments.com/category/dissipation-studies...
- deadon 13y agoSimple and useful.
- meritt 13y agoSo the download links just redirect to an S3 URL. What's to prevent someone from sharing the URL of the file itself and bypassing the quota?
- typable 13y agoAll files are uploaded directly to a private S3 bucket. Every time a download is initiated through a Dissipate private URL, the user is redirected to a signed S3 URL that is generated with a short TTL. The window in which someone can do that is limited
- colemorrison 13y agoWow. Now that's some cool shit. Great job!
- typable 13y agoI really appreciate that.
- jivid 13y agoSo ridiculously simple, I love it! That being said, would it be possible to add an option to only count a successful download as a download attempt? Right now, if I just hit the download button, the count gets decremented.
- typable 13y agoI've added that to my notes. Really appreciate that feedback.