abemassry
Joined 14 years ago
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Web Developer, Game Developer, creator of https://wsend.net and https://www.ireadthisweek.com
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Comment · 4 years ago
I read HN a lot, this topic always comes up so I said
“I’m going to build a site that makes these readers happy. Take all their advice, no JS at all. Everything done in HTML. Everything they’re asking for”
Turns out the hardest thing to do is to get people to use your site.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wrote a post very similar to this comment that you might be interested in reading. I broke down what takes time to load, how fast the browser determines something has loaded, and how fast the user can perceive the page loading. I ended up having to take a high speed video and measure frame by frame the time it took to load for user perception.
https://www.ireadthisweek.com/author/ireadthisweek/post/2022...
The TLDR is it takes longer than reported.
Comment · 4 years ago
Builder here, I read a lot of HN posts about blogging and I took all that feedback and built a site based on everything I've been reading about. I hope you check it out and let me know if you have any questions, Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
It goes to a central server, similar to Dropbox, except when I built the service 8 years ago it was a little more open than Dropbox and it was accessible through the command line.
I built something that was useful for me, 32,000 other people have found it useful as well, let me know if you have other questions as well. Thanks for checking it out!
Comment · 5 years ago
I feel compelled to tell you about my project
https://wsend.net/
I built a way to show a static site on there too: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-static
There are a lot of tools you can build on top of it as well because the core is simple: send a file, get a link.
Comment · 5 years ago
I wrote this a while ago and full disclosure I am the maintainer of this repo and I run the service, but I wanted a way to do full end to end encryption that was easy for me to use
https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg
The downsides are it's command line only, the upsides are you can audit the source and the encryption happens before it leaves your machine. Just wanted to share it with you in case you were interested. I'm a Signal user as well and I like what they are doing too. I have some friends who only exchange messages with me on Signal.
Comment · 6 years ago
I run a similar project like this, I have for the last 8 years, it's pretty bare bones but you can build on top of it: https://github.com/abemassry/wsend