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NautilusWave commented on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing   blip.net/... · Posted by u/miles
tomazsh · a month ago
Hey! Blip co-founder here. We didn't expect to show up on HN, but really grateful to OP for sharing Blip. Here's a little bit more about it.

We've built Blip because it's still hard to send original quality photos, videos, and large files to your devices and to other people on the internet. We’re designers and engineers, so our goal has always been to keep the product super simple on the surface, but really fast and powerful underneath.

Blip works in a peer-to-peer way at the UI level: you pick the device or person, and Blip takes care of the delivery. Transfers go directly over WAN whenever possible, and fall back to relays when needed. The idea is to send in one click, skipping the usual dance of moving files through cloud drives and managing shared links.

Under the hood, Blip is optimized for large media and data transfers. It supports full-speed acceleration, resumable progress, and we're rolling out E2EE across all clients to ensure sensitive business data remains secure. Many creative pros and teams already use Blip in their daily media workflows.

We don’t monetize data because it doesn't align with the values of our creative and technical users. Instead, we run on a simple donation and subscription model that lets you support the product and use it without limits, quotas, and frustrations. Our goal is to make file transfer feel invisible.

Happy to answer any questions.

NautilusWave · a month ago
What's the timeline on rolling out E2EE? Is it for paid users only?
NautilusWave commented on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not   theregister.com/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/LorenDB
jfengel · 2 months ago
(it's slightly more than 1% of their revenue)

In a lot of industries, 1% revenue is rather a lot. Many domains have profit margins of 5% or even less; that would be fully 20% of your earnings.

Software development is not "many industries", and Mozilla isn't most software development companies. So it's hard for me to say whether that specific CEO salary is appropriate. But I'd rather see his salary described by earnings, rather than revenue, since revenue by itself could just be churn.

NautilusWave · 2 months ago
Don't you have to look at Mozilla CEO's salary in the context of that of other non-profits?
NautilusWave commented on Starcloud   ycombinator.com/companies... · Posted by u/wiley1454
NautilusWave · 3 months ago
Maybe we can put the quantum computers in space too.
NautilusWave commented on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood   supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
afavour · 5 months ago
> my husband Tyler and I wanted that sense of community that feels like it’s only possible in the suburbs, but we believed we could achieve this while living in San Francisco.

This genuinely threw me because in my experience the suburbs are the antithesis of this, just lots of people occupying neighboring space and rarely talking to each other.

Still, a heartwarming story all the same. And yes, this is _exactly_ what city living should enable.

NautilusWave · 5 months ago
Hard agree. Especially in widely spaced suburban/exurban neighborhoods that mysteriously lack sidewalks and have suspiciously wide roads.
NautilusWave commented on No Billionares at FOSDEM   drewdevault.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/Tomte
tgsovlerkhgsel · 7 months ago
There are two things that don't sit right with me:

1. "the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers" -- this implies that users actually using decentralized services is a burden, a bad thing. Or rather, that a) it would be much better if Twitter was better and people just continued using Twitter rather than FOSS platforms b) that Twitter has some kind of obligation to keep their platform good because not doing so will make people use FOSS services. If the operators don't want their service to be used, they don't have to offer it...

2. "No billionaires" as a motto, implying that having money in itself (and not a specific way of behaving) is wrong, unethical, and worthy of exclusion. That feels like an very common envy-based position, trying to tear people down because they are better off. He does have reasonable points for not wanting that specific billionaire, but the demand for exclusion is "no billionaires". Should e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Acton not be allowed/given a platform at FOSDEM?

NautilusWave · 7 months ago
That sounds like something a billionaire would say.
NautilusWave commented on GitHub Git Operations Are Down   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/hunkins
itsjustjordan · 7 months ago
I was going insane doubting my SSH knowledge, stopped short of creating new keys thankfully!
NautilusWave · 7 months ago
I had just upgraded to Windows 11 last week, and for some godforsaken reason earlier today, I could SSH via WSL but not from the host OS even though they were both using keys served from the Windows OpenSSH agent! I'm just going to blame this service outage and hope for the best tomorrow.
NautilusWave commented on Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect   carsonogenic.substack.com... · Posted by u/apsec112
theasisa · 8 months ago
I think poly is kind of an umbrella term right now for a lot of different kinds of "multiple partners" type relationships. I am ENM (ethically non-monogamous) but if you're not familiar with the term (and most people aren't) saying poly is much easier. It is a bit like saying LGBT and including all the things that fit under the umbrella but aren't lesbian, gay, bi or trans.
NautilusWave · 8 months ago
It's not a very good umbrella term, the term itself implies a relationship structure where an individual is in multiple, involved intimate relationships. A couple in an open relationship where one or both partners engage in dalliances doesn't fall under that umbrella.
NautilusWave commented on Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect   carsonogenic.substack.com... · Posted by u/apsec112
e40 · 8 months ago
What does “door ajar” mean? I have seen several references to it but no definition.
NautilusWave · 8 months ago
I imagine it's like an open relationship with more rules around when and how one engages in outside activities.
NautilusWave commented on Every V4 UUID   everyuuid.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
NautilusWave · 9 months ago
For some reason, I was expecting the search to filter the results instead of just work like Ctrl+F. It'd be nifty if it could collapse non-matching UUIDs.
NautilusWave commented on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing   nytimes.com/2024/12/05/ny... · Posted by u/jbrot
potato3732842 · 9 months ago
The hate was always there. It's just now newsworthy.
NautilusWave · 9 months ago
The hate wasn't always there. Pent up frustration for the healthcare system precipitated as hate when an obvious target hit the news.

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