Show HN: 10MinuteStorage – Filesharing simplified with three words

This is cool. You can even use curl:

"curl https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/room/create/" to create a room

"curl -X POST -F "files[]=@pizza.jpg" https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/file/upload/my.room.name... to upload a file

"curl https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/file/download/file_hash -o pizza.jpg" to download a file

Handy!

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?

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.)

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 :)

Great idea Christian! Just sent you an email regarding a security/privacy issue around data leakage that is occurring on the site.

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

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.

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.

One of the cleverest ideas I've seen on HN lately. Great job!

What systems do you have in place to prevent abuse?

Awesome idea. 10 minute expiry should reduce abuse and impending DMCA's :)

Wow. Super cool idea. Are you the guy behind 10minutesmail.com?

Asking bcus it seems related.

Looks like a good idea to me. Looked at site, very clean. Good work!

Pretty nifty....Is there a file size limit?