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Show HN: DropJar – pauseable, resumeable big file transfer

19 points by oron 12y ago

oron 12y ago
Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net, Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)
- Yeri 12y ago
  Looks really nice. Nice interface. Perhaps add SSL?
  - oron 12y ago
    Thanks, Yes good idea SSL, will add it to the todos.
- kartikkumar 12y ago
  Nice idea. I think this has been posted on HN previously right (e.g., [1])? Would be good to know what the biggest changes are since then. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204126 EDIT: Added missing question mark.
  - oron 12y ago
    Not a lot of changes, but it's been a while and it was not getting the love it deserved. I fixed a lot of bugs, added T&C and a proper privacy policy etc. Added a help desk with FAQ etc.
geek90 12y ago
Looks great and the whole idea is pretty neat but in my opinion as a user, the UI could use some improvement as in some cues pointing to the jar or something similar.
- oron 12y ago
  Can you elaborate? like an arrow or something that points there ?
  - geek90 12y ago
    As in an arrow or popup indicator getting the user's attention towards the jar. I understand the reason to keep it tucked away. But I clicked twice on the text appearing in the pictures(ads) hoping it leads to a howto or features page before I figured out that the jar contains link to the help/detail page.
deanclatworthy 12y ago
So tell us a bit more about the technology behind it. Where are the files stored? etc. Also curious as to why over 90% of your main homepage is a clickable area that takes me to dollarphotoclub.
- oron 12y ago
  nodejs on the backend. the files are stored on local disk and backed up on Google cloud storage. Dollarphotoclub is this month's promotion. The back drop will be a big advert to various brands and I chose them as the first as I took the big faces that promote dropjar from their collection.
Jemm 12y ago
Nice; One thing that I think will confuse people: When downloading a file the file name is some random string.zip which when unzipped puts the files in the same folder rather than creating a new folder with the same name as the zip.
- oron 12y ago
  I understand, you mean you would like the zip to contain a sub folder with all the files in it. I was just following the example of other big transfer sites, assuming most users open up the zip with windows .. but for mac and linux I agree it could be improved.

19 points by oron 12y ago

oron 12y ago

Here is a little we Transfer competitor I coded in nodejs with the ability to transfer files for free up to 10GB but also the ability to pause and resume an upload later when you need the bandwidth. This is the main itch I was trying to scratch building this, I hate it when you start uploading a huge file and than want to browse the net, Let me know what you think. and happy Christmas everyone :-)

Yeri 12y ago
Looks really nice. Nice interface. Perhaps add SSL?
- oron 12y ago
  Thanks, Yes good idea SSL, will add it to the todos.
kartikkumar 12y ago
Nice idea. I think this has been posted on HN previously right (e.g., [1])? Would be good to know what the biggest changes are since then. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204126 EDIT: Added missing question mark.
- oron 12y ago
  Not a lot of changes, but it's been a while and it was not getting the love it deserved. I fixed a lot of bugs, added T&C and a proper privacy policy etc. Added a help desk with FAQ etc.

geek90 12y ago

Looks great and the whole idea is pretty neat but in my opinion as a user, the UI could use some improvement as in some cues pointing to the jar or something similar.

oron 12y ago
Can you elaborate? like an arrow or something that points there ?
- geek90 12y ago
  As in an arrow or popup indicator getting the user's attention towards the jar. I understand the reason to keep it tucked away. But I clicked twice on the text appearing in the pictures(ads) hoping it leads to a howto or features page before I figured out that the jar contains link to the help/detail page.

deanclatworthy 12y ago

So tell us a bit more about the technology behind it. Where are the files stored? etc. Also curious as to why over 90% of your main homepage is a clickable area that takes me to dollarphotoclub.

oron 12y ago
nodejs on the backend. the files are stored on local disk and backed up on Google cloud storage. Dollarphotoclub is this month's promotion. The back drop will be a big advert to various brands and I chose them as the first as I took the big faces that promote dropjar from their collection.

Jemm 12y ago

Nice; One thing that I think will confuse people: When downloading a file the file name is some random string.zip which when unzipped puts the files in the same folder rather than creating a new folder with the same name as the zip.

oron 12y ago
I understand, you mean you would like the zip to contain a sub folder with all the files in it. I was just following the example of other big transfer sites, assuming most users open up the zip with windows .. but for mac and linux I agree it could be improved.