Announcing poof

19 Sep 2024

I've been sending a lot of password protected files of late, and quite frankly sending passwords for them in plain-text over the email or SMS is shaking my inner paranoid demon.

I'm pretty sure there are lots of services like this, but I'm making one for myself anyway as

1. I needed to "write" it.
2. The others I found have ads.
3. I definitely needed to "write" it.

The goal

1. Create a text snippet.
2. Share it via a link.
3. Recipient opens link and views the text snippet.
4. The text snippet is deleted forever.
5. Simple to maintain.

The application

The application is called poof. Because, duh!. You can find it running on https://aktsbot.in/poof. Go ahead and try it out!

The source code is over at Github. It uses sqlite and expressjs. And that's it!

Happy Hacking & have a great day!