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Sounds like dropbox is best suited to answer your question. Ask them?

Edit: This two-in-one example of the perils of relying on free cloud services. Here it's the whims of Dropbox and the immutability of bit.ly/goo.gl links that have broken OP's setup.

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Link shorteners are important because the generated links to shared content -- at Dropbox or MediaFire or wherever -- are impossible to dictate or manually type.

Also, I've got a Pro ($99/year) account, so it isn't a free goddam service. Do you know of any free or paid cloud services that let you share uploaded files using custom, short, pronounceable links?

Your own domain. You only need to setup a redirect from my-awesome-stuff.com/the-app to whatever storage provider you use.

OK, fair answer. I don't really want to own a domain, but that would be a solution: it gives me complete control over the form of the link, and makes it editable and redirectable.

You don't need a domain for S3. It's usually something like mybucket.s3.region.amazonaws.com.

Using S3 does not solve the problem. It just postpones it to the unknown future.

Looks like you could do it with AWS pretty cheap: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/build-a-serverless-priv...

Key part is that S3 supports redirects.

github pages might suit your needs.

Huh. TIL. Reading further, thank you!

It looks very much like github pages[1] combined with github release support[2] will do the job. Thank you again for the pointer!

[1] https://pages.github.com/

[2] https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases/

Except at the rate GitHub is losing money there's no guarantee they'll be around forever either.

Additionally you can use git.io to shorten any github.io or github.com link. It's not available on the website but their API also allows you to choose your own pronounceable name. Most names you could want are still available.

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