Hello makers, I m Niloy, Product Lead & Researcher at BurnLink. It s been amazing seeing the support and response from the community so far. Today, I wanted to share something interesting about the thinking behind our product what led us to build it in the first place from a psychological perspective and what's the future of BurnLink.
The open-source file sharing tool for people who actually care about privacy.
Ever sent sensitive data through email? Or watched your files sit on someone's cloud forever? We built BurnLink because the alternative to privacy shouldn't be inconvenience.
Confession: I got hacked. many times. This is what came after.
First breach: 2019. Got the notification email like everyone else. Password was there. Changed it everywhere (or thought I did). Still have no idea if it's floating around somewhere.
We built something weird: an ashtray for digital secrets. Throw the password in, light it once, and watch it go. No smoke. No evidence. Just a little click and it s gone.
Why this exists
People still email passwords, paste keys in Slack, and trust we ll delete it later. That trust is why things get leaked.
BurnLink flips the script: make sharing fast, then make the trace disappear.
A real talk about why we built this, and why your instinct to be scared is actually correct.
The Honest Truth
You know that feeling when someone asks you to email a password? Or send sensitive docs through Google Drive? And you know it's not great, but... what else are you supposed to do?
BurnLink lets you share sensitive files with end-to-end encryption and
one-time links that burn themselves after access. No accounts. No permanent storage. No trust required.
