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Just Launched: File Zipping API
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Sudhir Jonathan
https://zips.dev
Sounds like a neat service. I think the biggest issue in finding customers would be people willing to trust their files with your service. Not sure how to get around that. Curious to see what kind of demand you get. Good luck!
I’m considering offering a self-hosted container for companies that have trust or compliance issues, maybe priced at a few hundred $ a year, like Sidekiq. I’d expect the hosted version to be used by B2C companies like e-commerce, content, social media etc, where a a lot of the content is already public and the service is used purely as a packaging system.
Haven’t figured out how to get this out there yet... Reddit Ads were one possibility, but no results yet.
Will start building an audience in parallel (ideally should have started with that).
I've had to zip files dynamically at many of the projects I worked on, and the ad-hoc solutions we came up with always had problems with not working reliably, running out of disk space, taking too long / being asynchronous or just doing the wrong thing.
I've built https://zips.dev to do that one thing really well. It takes a signed JWT manifest of all the files you want to zip and the directory paths you want them to appear under, then downloads the files, zips them and streams them out on-demand. This allows you to zip thousands / gigabytes of files without worrying about whether it'll work. I've also added an option to store a manifest and access it via just the signature, so it's easy to share temporary download links that expire and make the package as they're being downloaded.
Happy to help people set up their data download / export systems for reporting, GDPR data export, or whatever else they need this kind of service for.