My father died on Friday and for some reason I found myself in tears while reading this.

I wasn't sure why, at first, but I think I was sad because, after my father died, my world felt smaller. It seemed that someone who loved and cared for me my whole life was gone, and the world was filled with strangers.

But reading this helped me to realize that strangers care and love me for no reason - just because I am another human being - and they want to help. And it makes me realize the world is bigger than I initially thought.

Ha this is a cool idea!

thank you, yes this was my original plan and kind of the default plan

Good luck then, I'm interested and will stay tuned! There are some interesting possibilities for doing the old thing with new technology but restraint is key.

I own the trademark for Friendster

That's super cool - I'd be interested to hear more about that if you chose to write about it.

yes I've been thinking about making it decentralized - am seriously considering using nostr for this

Thank you for the feedback. I don't want it to grow just by making it addictive. I'd rather it be a great product. I have faith that if it is a great product and helps people, then people will want to use it. I'd rather people use it because it helps them make friends or keep in touch with friends, or something positive like this.

yes truly awful, I should be ashamed for making it. Why do I make anything. Thank you for the feedback

I do not think this was personal. As a security professional I have the same reaction.

Security is hard, but not only in the technical area. The whole governance is not obvious for someone who did not have these threats on their radar.

If you do security you need to be ready to get feedback you do not expect, in areas you may have not fully addressed.

Sorry, nothing personal. :) No shaming/accusation intended - all I intended was a warning to potentially naive readers about the security principles involved. Keep building, the UX is great.

Unfortunately, security stuff has some pretty hard lines we had to start drawing and moving further forward due to excellent security research (of whatever color hat)...

thanks. I think security is super important, however I do not think it is necessary to obsess over it for no reason. If I want to share a dev password with someone, I can tell them the login over discord and then send them a link to temp.pw. Easy peasy and absolutely no security risk. This is why I created it.

Sounds like the temp.pw server is owned by you and you're willing to trust AWS with your secrets.

So your security posture with respect to this service is significantly different from people on the web.

Or you just tell them the password.

This is a much better way.

Yes, especially that you can use a "human-readable" password such as galleria-blunderer-tutor-omit-nursing-unify which is easy to provide via voice

... and as secure as ljpvxzbygjnzmbfoazibgmpwmegwkmrlczybzxgbctdbqkmtdq

because it is about sharing a one-off password with someone so that you don't have to worry about it getting stored in chat history

I don't know why the share button became that color. I actually made this years ago because I needed it for my company. But then file.io was acquired (which I was using for the backend), and so I had to recently switch to using aws as the backend. So I vibe-coded a new backend api for aws in the last couple of months. I also acquired the domain temp.pw - previously used temporary.pw (which still works).