Project · 2017 · Product & development
FileNation
The simplest way to send your files around the world: decentralized sharing over IPFS, with no intermediary servers.
- Problem
- Sharing files depended on centralized servers, with censorship and single points of failure.
- Product
- Decentralized sharing over IPFS: you send a file as a link, with no intermediaries.
- My role
- Product and development.
- Outcome
- Front page of Hacker News and more than 860 stars on GitHub.
- Evidence
- Code on GitHub
What FileNation is
FileNation uses IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) to make sharing a file as simple as sending a link, but without depending on a central server. The file lives distributed, not on a single machine that someone can switch off or censor.
Why it mattered
It reached the front page of Hacker News and has accumulated more than 860 stars on GitHub —a public, verifiable signal that it solved something real for other people—. The code is still open.