Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers

Markoff

how is this different from dozens of similar websites? https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#file-management-and... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:File_sharing_services and those are hardly a complete lists

ddtaylor

I use wormhole, warp, etc. They are available on many platforms with FOSS licenses with very limited centralization.

rafram

File hosting is an extremely messy business. I don't see any DMCA/abuse reporting mechanism on the site. You need those, and as you scale up, you're also going to need full-time staff whose only job is to wade through uploads and prevent abuse. (No, AI alone can't do that.) Firefox Send had to shut down after becoming a massive malware/phishing distribution center, and that was with full-time staff in that role [1]. Obviously writing a service like this is trivial; keeping it running safely is the hard part. Considering that your other business is an open, unauthenticated CORS proxy service [2], I have to wonder why you've picked two of the very messiest niches. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Send [2]: https://corsproxy.io/

bryden_cruz

The best thig is that you can install it with npm, you did great, keep up

paolatauru

ive used wormhole.app for a while. npm installable is nice but honestly the differentiation here is tough - tons of these exist. curious what the backend looks like, is it self-hostable or managed only?