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jonluca•about 1 hour ago

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

Bender•4 minutes ago

Do free accounts require any kind of email validation such as retrieving and pasting in a code?

superjose•41 minutes ago

Agreed I think this is pretty solid especially since you get all the Cloudflare benefits like CDN from the get-go.

swingandamiss•about 1 hour ago

hn has turned into a reddit hate fest. It's getting hard to read non stop negativity and hate. I'm happy to see your positive comment.

combyn8tor•35 minutes ago

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

andrethegiant•about 2 hours ago

Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

tech234a•about 2 hours ago

And BitBalloon before that (which Netlify acquired) http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitbal...

brightball•about 2 hours ago

There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?

scubbo•27 minutes ago

I was always under the impression that that was referencing the notion from spycraft.

latchkey•about 1 hour ago

Don't forget Digital Ocean Droplets.

dmillar•about 1 hour ago

Low barrier services don't care who's first in this epoch.

ares623•17 minutes ago

But this time it's with ~blockchain~ AI!

nickgray•5 minutes ago

This is cool and I like it.

Bender•about 3 hours ago

There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.

mattlondon•about 2 hours ago

Only live for an hour.

But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...

Y-bar•about 1 hour ago

One hour is great for spearphishing attacks, once the victim has been infected their IT department will have no trace of the source.

DakotaR•about 2 hours ago

Yeah, I was going to start a file drop site like 0x until realizing what it'd be used for

alberth•34 minutes ago

Reminds me of web development in the 1990s.

I honestly miss those days of deployment simplicity.

smalltorch•about 3 hours ago

Hmm, that's fun and useful. Here is snake game for 60 minutes.

https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev

tengbretson•about 2 hours ago

Your code appears to have a bug where if the arrow keys trigger a change of direction twice in a single frame interval, it can mistakenly send the snake back on itself.

copper-float•about 2 hours ago

What an honor. I got a high score of seven.

_pdp_•about 2 hours ago

It is cool to see not sure why you would use it.

Also it seems to me that this is a good way to exfiltrate data, rubber stamped by cloudflare themselves.

gruez•about 2 hours ago

Isn't there already thousands of ways for exfiltrating data that must be whitelisted by corporate firewalls? office365/gsuite, for instance. Not to mention the classics like dns.

throwaway81523•about 2 hours ago

Wait, my first impression was that it points a local browser to your local browser. Now it looks like it uploads your folder to Cloudflare and temporarily serves it over the web. But is that different from what we used to do with FTP? Are there any databases or anything like basic PHP hosts supply? It's just static sites?

Is this a product or what? What's the purpose? Is there an API?

joenot443•about 2 hours ago

A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots.

I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.

qingcharles•about 1 hour ago

Absolutely agree. There's an insane "feature" of Claude Design which means you can only share the link to the design with other users on your account?! You can export the design, though, but then you need somewhere to quickly drop a bunch of HTML + assets. This would be perfect for that.

efields•about 1 hour ago

Trying to solve this here: https://jlnk.us

Here's the instructions my agents have:

> Shareable Deliverables → jlnk.us (default) The jlnk MCP server is configured machine-wide for all team agents. It publishes disposable public links: create_link(content, ttl) returns an unguessable URL anyone can open without logging in; it self-destructs after its TTL (4h/24h/72h, default 4h, max 5 MB). Also list_my_links() and delete_link(id).

> When handing a human (Founder, CEO reviewer) something to look at — QC screenshots, prototypes, reports, before/after comparisons — default to a jlnk.us link instead of a repo file path or local path. Use 72h for Founder review, shorter when the review window is same-day.

> Content must be ONE self-contained HTML file: inline CSS/JS, embed screenshots as base64 data URIs (![image](data:image/png;base64,...)).

> Downscale images to stay under the 5 MB cap.

> Links are public to anyone holding the URL. NEVER publish secrets, API keys, credentials, or private client data.

> Links expire — they are a viewing convenience, not the system of record. Durable artifacts still go to the repo and issue attachments as usual.

pantelisk•about 1 hour ago

There are also solutions for sharing your homelab with others (basically tunneling from your machine->server (internet accessible) <-> client. Though, if your machine would go to sleep that whole chain would fall apart. A few good automatic solutions out there that solve the problem (no "just replace dropbox with ftp" type of argument).

However, I see the appeal of this. Kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet to be honest.

efields•about 1 hour ago

I built a tool _just the other day_ for this exact purpose. Now my agents proactively make disposable links for me: https://jlnk.us

dmillar•about 1 hour ago

Replit is used a lot in this context. Their agent is good, but their circumvent-policies-to-get-something-in-front-of-execs-quickly is an amazing and mis-priced feature.

throwaway81523•about 2 hours ago

You could just upload to a personal or other website? I sometimes do that. Is there any security or privacy (e.g. password protection) for this Cloudflare Drop site?

vulture916•about 1 hour ago

Check out Tailscale - they have TUNS + share the source files with someone else in tailnet.

janandonly•about 3 hours ago

Makes sense. It plays nicely with the vibe code kids who don’t know how to do GitHub or don’t know to ask their LLM about it.

collabs•about 2 hours ago

Congratulations on launching!

I tried uploading a git repository that I have previously successfully published on Github pages. This is a "no build" website I have built with the help of Claude. It should just work but I keep getting an error. Who can I reach out to give them steps to reproduce? The website repository is public and I feel like anyone at Cloudflare who wants to reproduce my problem can quite literally clone my repo and upload it to cloudflare drop.

Please drop your cloudflare email address and I will reach out to you with my repository information.

turtlebits•about 2 hours ago

Or you could do some of your own troubleshooting? Uploading a git repo is different than uploading a zipped/folder, especially if your index.htm/l isn't at the root.

BoppreH•about 1 hour ago

Dropped a folder with a small HTML project, and after 20 seconds got "Something went wrong. An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support.".

Note how the error has zero information.

Looking in the network tab, a POST request to /upload returned 403 and an HTML page starting with "Sorry, you have been blocked", and to "email the site owner to let them know you were blocked".

I'm very tired of this adversarial approach to software coupled with vague errors.

EDIT: it was the file './git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample' created by default on git init. Maybe because it's Perl. Worse-than-useless "please try again" and "you've been blocked" for committing the sin of uploading a folder that's a git repository. Sigh...

Cider9986•about 2 hours ago

>Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support.

I have a few qualms with this app.

altairprime•about 2 hours ago

Hah! This is exactly how I’m serving the vestigial remnant of my blogging in the early 2000s from a ZIP-backed Cloudflare Worker today. Should I rebuild my site with Drop+Claim or is it fine as-is? I kind of feel like ‘if what I have works, don’t change it’ is the best path.

sgt•about 2 hours ago

Tried uploading a ZIP and got:

"Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."

TZubiri•about 1 hour ago

When contacting support:

"Please upload a screenshot of the error by dragging a zip of the png file."

rickcarlino•about 1 hour ago

Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.

TZubiri•about 1 hour ago

And if there's a form or something with a backend? Just break?

djfobbz•about 1 hour ago

Yet I can't drag and drop a plain old HTML file without putting it in a folder or a ZIP file first.

bossyTeacher•14 minutes ago

It could be fun to use a temporary Mediafire/Rapidshare/Megaupload service. Especially if you need to transfer something between an Android and an iPhone.

ricardobeat•about 1 hour ago

I remember doing this in 2006. FTP. Good times.

barnacs•29 minutes ago

I remember making a Qt app for a friend that would upload dropped files via ftp and copy the link to the clipboard. Good old days!

ChrisArchitect•about 3 hours ago

> No account needed. Deployment is active for 60 minutes, then expires unless you claim it.

(https://x.com/BraydenWilmoth/status/2074894829616509358)

simonw•about 2 hours ago

Same deal as their Cloudflare Workers previews from a few weeks ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/

anonymousiam•26 minutes ago

Odds are that this new feature will not suffer the same outcome as Megaupload, because of Cloudflare's close relationship with the USG.

toomuchtodo•about 1 hour ago

Cloudflare folks: Please consider supporting WARC archives for deployment.

system2•about 2 hours ago

It would be nice if we could see some information such as file size limitations, demos, link structure, management, etc. Am I expected to upload a random HTML file and see how it works?

Fergusonb•about 1 hour ago

Yep, I chucked it a file on my desktop: index.html present Max individual file size 25MB Total file count <2000 Total size less than 100MB

petee•about 1 hour ago

Yeah I'm very lost on what this is supposed to do -- "Summon your site" is quite vague. "see it live", like a demo? or is this actually published somewhere? Is it forever?

Desktop mode doesn't show any more information either

heipei•about 2 hours ago

Cloudflare is really good at launching features that facility low-friction deployment of malicious content (such as phishing) on the Internet, piggybacking on their hosting reputation and the fact that you can't easily block their ASN or domains.

simultsop•about 1 hour ago

I don't know your experience. Once I was toying around and doing a basic auth with registration and so. The weekend was over and couldn't get back to that couple of months. The worker was quarantined and marked as phishing automatically. So I believe they have something in place to prevent those you complain.

jszymborski•about 1 hour ago

Your anecdote just illustrates that their system detects legit uses as abuses, not that they have a system that effectively detects abuses.

cute_boi•43 minutes ago

Cloudflare is also like a Chinese copycat machine. They mostly copy some successful project and sell it at cheap price.

Waterluvian•about 2 hours ago

Be the change you want to see to make the world of your dreams.

And then sell its denizens malice protection services.

nalekberov•about 1 hour ago

The internet will soon be flooded with even more scam landing pages.

cute_boi•41 minutes ago

And you should be using cloudflare to protect yourself...

ChrisArchitect•about 3 hours ago

Extension of the temporary accounts they needed to enable for Agents https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/

sleepynoodle•about 1 hour ago

This is so cool.

S0y•about 1 hour ago

Cloudflare has the astonishing ability to make me hate them more as a company every new feature they launch.

vevoe•about 1 hour ago

why?

S0y•about 1 hour ago

Every new feature they've launched recently can be used to make the web more dangerous for everyone except those who use Cloudflare.

denismenace•about 1 hour ago

How would this make the web more dangerous? Its just static file hosting. Already wildly available!