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desireco42
Looks like a good idea to me. Looked at site, very clean. Good work!
seangrant
What systems do you have in place to prevent abuse?
copperx
What kind of abuse are you imagining?
seangrant
These temp file share sites are often prime targets for CP and illegal warez distributors
azinman2
warez... now that's a word i haven't heard in a while
HAL9OOO
What about the chiptunes that went along with the key-gens?
Scaevolus
10-minute expiration functions as an automatic take-down faster than most other mechanisms.
jtokoph
Great idea Christian! Just sent you an email regarding a security/privacy issue around data leakage that is occurring on the site.
dvt
Awesome idea. 10 minute expiry should reduce abuse and impending DMCA's :)
volaski
One of the cleverest ideas I've seen on HN lately. Great job!
copperx
Beautiful user experience.

I'm assuming the file will remain "alive" while it is downloading, right? So after you share it and the download starts, the receiver can take, say, 2 hours to download the file?

hbking
Hey Copperx, all files will be deleted after 10 minutes. Once a download started it will be finished
pjc50
Just checking: 10 minutes after upload complete, not upload start? Is there a size limit? Are downloads resumable within the 10 minute window?
_kst_
I just copied a couple of files there. In the browser window where I copied them, it correctly showed the sizes as 8 kbytes and 63 kbytes. When I re-open the same page, it shows them as "8 bytes" and "63 bytes". They download correctly.

Is there a way to copy files other than drag-and-drop? That's not always convenient, and in some environments might not be possible. (As hanniabu points out, clicking on the drop zone opens a file selection dialog, so never mind.)

hanniabu
Just did it in mobile. If you click the drop zone you can select files from your document folder.
hienyimba
Wow. Super cool idea. Are you the guy behind 10minutesmail.com?

Asking bcus it seems related.

arm
Or maybe even 10minutemail.com. :P
modoc
Nope! I'm the guy behind 10MinuteMail.com. But this looks super cool! Glad to see the trend for ephemeral services:) Would be happy to cross promote with links though if the creator is interested.
adammunich
Your service has helped me get soooo many fairchild semiconductor samples, thank you :-).
arm
Oh wow, seriously? I also have to thank you for 10MinuteMail.com! I’ve used it to the point that it’s got a spot in my web browser’s bookmark bar. ;)
hbking
Hey Modoc, your 10minutemail was the source for this idea, i use your service very often. Thanks for the chance to cross promote, are you on twitter?
modoc
Awesome! Glad you like! I am devondragon on Twitter.
hbking
Cool Devon, if you just refollow me (@dermerkel) i can send you a PM with my emailaddress so we can get in touch...
hbking
Hey Devon, wrote you a PM on twitter, not sure if you've seen it...
unsignedint
Very cool. I have been looking for ways to easily move small data between my machines. (I have Syncthing setup between machines, but it's a bit cumbersome when I just want push a file or two.)

I definitely give this a try for this purpose.

hanniabu
Pretty nifty....Is there a file size limit?
hbking
Hey Hanniabu, no filesize limit, it's fair use...
[dead] hanniabu
Pretty nifty....Is there a file size limit?
amelius
I normally use wetransfer.com for this purpose. I'm wondering what makes this solution better (it is certainly not the size of the availability time-window :)
atrilumen
I noticed that AWS Lambda increased the maximum function timeout (from one minute) to five minutes.

Maybe that'd make it a good platform for (something like) 5MinuteStorage. Store a file only in memory, allow a specified number of downloads within five minutes.

dweinus
I'm curious what method is being used for generating the words. I played around with humanhash a while back for similar purposes.