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To be fair, I did change it to be a drop in replacement. Fewer dependencies is always good, especially in the plugin itself.

To test this, I went through all the examples on the original project with jQuery and dropped in the new file and changed the original call and all the demos work great with those two minor changes.

I don't see why not, if there is interest. I really just refactored it to work with my project without jQuery. I'll take a look, maybe make the choice of API selectable.

I was working on a project and found a plugin that was perfect. Unfortunately my project didn't use jQuery and the plugin was built on jQuery. I didn't want to add another dependency. I noticed the plugin was licensed under MIT, so I thought I would fork it and refactor it to remove jQuery dependencies, which I did. Thought I would share.

https://destructible.io for sharing files temporarily with yourself across terminals, or others. I submitted to HN, got a huge spike of subscribers. Submitted to Reddit, got another, smaller spike.

Eventually other people started submitting it in response to questions online in forums like HN, where people would ask things like, "What's the Best Productivity Tool You've Found" or, "What Secret Thing Do You Wish Everyone Knew About." Started getting more spikes in users, then a regular base of users, then paying customers, then enterprise customers! Pretty cool organic spread.

It's definitely a side project, but making some money on it which is awesome.

Tried Google AdWords, total waste of (free up to coupon amount) money. Maybe one new user with $250 spent.

So I would say: Build a good product and maybe if people will like it enough you will get some organic growth.

edit to say: I'm still 1000% just doing this as a fun aide project that I built to serve a need I specifically had, but am happy to answer specific questions about what I stumbled through and did to kind of get off the ground enough to pay monthly costs and make a little profit.

Hey I'm very interested in pursuing FOIA modernization with you guys. Is sending in a resume through the link the best way to proceed?

I made a small database software engine. Learned a lot about pointers and C syntax, and I still use the software sometimes. SQLite is written in C, if you didn't know.

How many would you recommend for better security? The thought was that these links wouldn't last long, and the files are deleted upon expiration. But of course trusting obscurity for security is a flawed concept in itself. But looking for a good middle ground.

The DC Bikeshare app always starts me there too before moving me to the correct location.

Seems to be working for me at the moment. Are you saying it's not functional for you, or that it shouldn't be uploaded to Amazon?

edit: Just to update, changed up the file upload structure so it's randomized with an appended uuid.