Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files

41 pointsposted 5 months ago
by MarsB
(dum.pt)

53 Comments

AfterHIA

5 months ago

This is the kind of neat, small, useful tool I carouse HN for. I'm going to add this to my giant list of, "neat ass little tools that I found on Hacker News."

Now if only somebody could make a tool that can audit my giant ass list of neat little tools so that when a use case comes around I remember, "ah yes this!"

staindk

5 months ago

Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.

MarsB

5 months ago

Appreciate the comment, feels great

blacksmith_tb

5 months ago

Carouse != peruse? Though maybe on Fridays everything has a party atmosphere...

therealpygon

5 months ago

I can’t think of a more relevantly time to carouse than when browsing my deep archive of ADHD-sorted bookmarks.

AfterHIA

5 months ago

I'm influenced by Tom Nook's usage of the term in, "Animal Crossing" or, "どうぶつの森" for the Nintendo Gamecube.

air7

5 months ago

I'd be happy to see that list. Perhaps consider sharing it.

defanor

5 months ago

Apparently the "Show HN" prefix would be appropriate here [0]. And this kind of a service is usually called a pastebin [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin

MarsB

5 months ago

Thanks for the heads up! I update the title to show the appropriate tag. I'm familiar with the term pastebin, but this is not limited to just text and I do feel like pastebin.com has taken ownership of the term so I wanted to avoid confusion.

BobbyTables2

5 months ago

What happens if people use this to publish base64 versions of pirated works?

Or other illegal activities?

MarsB

5 months ago

I've added a report functionality. It's not the perfect solution, that's for certain. But it's something while I figure out better ones :)

AlexClickHouse

5 months ago

I've implemented a similar site a few years ago, with one crucial difference, which makes it even simpler: https://pastila.nl/

The difference is that there is no "share" button, so you don't have to press it, and just copy the page URL any time.

MarsB

5 months ago

Neat! I like your solution, much better for simple text sharing.

matthewtse

5 months ago

Can I curl this file to a linux machine easily?

I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine. Rather than doing many hops through SSH tunnels, the easiest thing to do would be to host the file online, and wget it down to my linux machine.

The options out there were lacking. I used https://bashupload.com/ for a bit, but the problem is that after you download the file once, it gets deleted. Sometimes I want to share the file to multiple machines.

ac29

5 months ago

> I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine.

You can do this with tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop

MarsB

5 months ago

I made an initial version, let me know if you find it useful! Docs at dum.pt/dev or just curl https://dum.pt :)

fsflover

5 months ago

The page uses Google Tag Manager. Related discussions:

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eth0up

5 months ago

I love these websites. I think as bapak (and codefined) suggested, they tend not to last though, which is unfortunate. I also imagine it's fun to build. Good old fashioned simple utility.

Thanks for sharing.

MarsB

5 months ago

This was in all honesty a very self-serving project! Fun to build, something I wanted and that's that. Fingers crossed it's smooth sailing and it doesn't end up in the graveyard like all the other :')

nomel

5 months ago

Why not simplify the URI?

https://www.dum.pt/25d16868-60b7-4a5e-bf2f-828341ff7c1a

"dump" seems redundant.

MarsB

5 months ago

I've been giving this some thought... While I definitely agree with you, adding the extra route seems more "future-proof". And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway... But it might be worth just making the whole link much much shorter over all. I'll think about this!

nomel

5 months ago

> And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway

They're what everyone sees, when a link is shared. It's a fundamental part of the user experience, for a service like this. As stupid as it is, I would be a bit embarrassed to share a link with "dump" in it. Dump.ty is fine/great.

> adding the extra route seems more "future-proof".

I'd claim this is a separate issue. "routing" isn't real, after all, it's just string matching. Most/all routers have regex match options that might take some ns longer. You're free to do whatever you want in the future, trivially so if you make sure whatever future path doesn't look like an ID.

MarsB

5 months ago

I liked your points, I updated the link structure. :)

codefined

5 months ago

Looks fantastic! As someone who has done it before, if this gets popular you'll run into some abusive users that you'll want to deal with. Microsoft will often give out free access to it's PhotoDNA service for detection of explicit images of minors. VirusTotal will often do the same for malware in exchange for samples. You'll also want to have a structured retention process, e.g. size is inversely proportional to storage time.

Good luck, get in contact (see my profile) if you run into any issues.

MarsB

5 months ago

wow thank you so much for the tips! I had mostly just worried about piracy and thought that the maximum 24 hour retention policy would be "good enough". Naively, I had not thought of things I'd want to nip right in the bud (Like CP). So I will definitely be looking into the solutions you've mentioned. Thanks again!

morkalork

5 months ago

Hackers like to use these types of services (eg pastebin) as remote C&C servers too where infected computers both retrieve commands from them and also exfiltrate data to them

MarsB

5 months ago

Thanks for flagging this! I will definitely be doing a deep dive into all this this weekend

crtasm

5 months ago

Thanks but I'll continue to use similar services that don't embed google tracking.

MarsB

5 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! I've removed google analytics in favour of minimalistic in-house (public!) analytics

https://dum.pt/analytics

crtasm

5 months ago

Much appreciated!

jaharios

5 months ago

And another one! How long will it last? All bets on the table.

MarsB

5 months ago

Hopefully longer than the other ones, but who knows. Time will tell :)

bapak

5 months ago

[flagged]

MarsB

5 months ago

I considered it, but I (naively) thought that the 24 hour maximum retention policy would take care of most abuse. As others in the comments have pointed out, it won't! So I will be taking more steps towards abuse prevention :)

7bit

5 months ago

If someone uploads just one CP picture, our are fucked for live.

quesera

5 months ago

One has to believe that law enforcement forensics folks have the wherewithal to distinguish a stray image in browser cache, from a large downloads folder full of similar content.

One has to believe this, for their own sanity.

One does wonder though, particularly in countries with increasingly-weakenened rules of law.

MarsB

5 months ago

I ran a social media site years ago, had a few instances of CP where we personally notified law enforcement. It was taken care of, we got in absolutely no trouble. But it's worrying how inefficient the whole process is. Or at least was back then.