@frankgraave Here are the differences I can spot right away:
- Wormhole doesn't require signup.
- Wormhole doesn't require your email address or personal information to use the service.
- Wormhole doesn't have blockchain technology involved, which means less energy waste, less "hype", and fewer things that can go wrong
- Wormhole offers file transfers up to 10 GB, while they support only 512MB.
@abir_hs We can't securely add a short link feature. If we did that, we'd be able to see the secret key which protects your files. If you want your files to stay secure, we recommend not creating a short link. Instead, only share the link with the intended recipient of the files.
@ricklamers This is great to hear! Have you seen our list of differences between Wormhole and WeTransfer? It's here: https://twitter.com/feross/statu... You're making the right choice!
@feross great app. i hope you don't mind a new suggestions.
Can you
make the link shorter?
have page that log every wormhole link i create it should tell everything about the link from its birth to its death. when & where it was opened log the number of files it contains blahblah
@jmp These are good suggestions! Thanks – will add them to our list.
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So glad to see this app on Product Hunt. Coincidentally I've decided to cancel my Dropbox account this month so now I have a replacement for Dropbox Transfer! Add a couple of Pro features and Dropbox Transfer could be a forgotten memory.
@clint_waters That's amazing to hear! What are the missing features that are most important to you? Hearing this from you would really help us know what to prioritize. Can you send me an email at (my first name AT my first name DOT org)? Thanks!
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You've done a good job!
But, in my opinion: These kind of "fair tools" should be open source. How to be sure my files are encrypted if I don't know what code I use? On top of that, the frontend should be deployed on IPFS to guarantee code/app.
@paco_pac1 I totally understand your perspective. Auditing a web app is always a challenging prospect. We want to do more to re-assure users with concerns similar to yours. We're going to open source the cryptography code and explore building other types of client frontends, including potentially a CLI client, so you can be more sure that the code hasn't changed out from under you when using Wormhole.
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I downloaded the app with Chrome, and for some reason it looks like the app is part of Chrome. (The menu bar has the little extensions puzzle piece.) Is the app a browser app? Or is it standalone? My CPU goes to 100% for a few seconds when I drop files in there, so I guess that's the app encrypting the files locally?
@darren_t_jansen It's a web app that you can install through Chrome - known as a "progressive web app" or PWA. It should integrate quite nicely with your operating system – should appear when you Control+Tab or Command+Tab (on Mac), and appear in the Start Menu or Dock (on Mac).
All files are encrypted locally with a secret that is known only to you. The server has no way of seeing your files.
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