Milestones & New Features

It's been an exciting two months. As of today, here's what my 30-day project view on my Cloudflare dash has looked like:

These are quite some impressive stats! Aided by a few posts on HN and LinkedIn, I've been impressed with how much traction this service has gotten, considering this was started from scratch.

I've received troves of feedback from friends & family who've used the service. I've fixed a lot of cross-platform connection bugs, issues with peers being on different networks, filesize bottlenecks, and much more. Now live!

Additionally, I've crossed out a few things from last post's TODO
• Streaming
• A developer API 
• A "last connected to" that the browser remembers

Of these, I'm most excited for the developer API. I hope that opening up Static to developers will allow the service to grow more, and for peer-to-peer networking to be accessible for more apps.

Thanks, all, for the feedback & support for this project. I'm excited to see the project grow, and I will continue to listen to & serve users' needs.

Jake

Charter

Hi, all. Today, I'm launching Static - which, aside from having really cool domain-hack name, is a free, 100% in the browser, fast peer-to-peer file transfer service. It's built on PeerJS, which is built on WebRTC.

If I had to elevator-pitch this to my grandma, I'd call it "Airdrop, but global".

Files will never touch a 3rd-party service, and there's no filesize limit. Insteading of sending an email to yourself with a file attachment, just open the site on both devices, and drag & drop. It's private, free, and as fast as possible.

I'm not concerned at all about revenue. Currently, it costs $60/y for this domain's registration. This service is built on plain, cheap-to-serve static pages (no pun intended), so everything happens in the client. Your client is the infrastructure.

And because we're just serving static pages, there are few scalability concerns. Whether we have 50 users or 50,000, the cost is going to hover close to $60/y. Everything is also behind Cloudflare.

At the moment, I want to focus on serving a good, useful product to as many people as possible. Growth is the primary thought right now.

In a world where the web is enshittifying at a rapid pace, good-faith entrepreneurship is hard to come by. And even if this makes zero cents, it's great passion-project & resume-booster :)

I have a long list of asperations for this project! However, here are the most prominent:
 ▢  An API
 ▢  Peer-to-peer video streaming
 ▢  A "last connected to" that the browser remembers
 ▢  Open-sourcing the project

Hope you find this service useful! Consider following the company's LinkedIn for updates :)

Jake