Sorry to call it like I see it, but your comment is so wrong on every possible level.
There is nobody else to call when someone is telling the world they're going to commit suicide, where is your compassion? I don't even know this guy, never read his blog and I live in another country, but reading that post and the "love" one he posted with photos of his children, that hits me right in the chest. I feel compelled to try and do something.
Police aren't just there for tending to crimes, they are there to serve and protect the community and in this case, protect someone in the community from themselves who is clearly suffering from immense mental stress and needs help.
The way society deals with people who clearly are suffering from mental illness needs to change. There are so many people out there just like him working in tech and non-tech alike feeling the same, sadly many don't get heard or the help they need. Remember Aaron Swartz?
It's easy for people to say, "he should tell someone, he should tell his wife" when they've never experienced mental illness before. It's easy to be uncompassionate when you're lucky to be a normal functioning human being.
Thank you. It's such a horrible and powerless feeling knowing that there is very little I can do all the way here in Australia. I sent them a Facebook message, but I am glad someone was able to call.
This gives me knots in my stomach, I hope it's not too late to help this man and his family. I would contribute to a crowdfunding campaign, nobody should suffer like this. I don't have much either, but I could help with a little.
Someone in Canada here that can help out? The whois for the domain lists the following:
Name: Dennis Forbes
Postal address: 2273 Britannia Rd
Burlington ON L7P0E8 Canada
Phone: +1.9053158373
Dropjar looks fantastic. Honestly, not really thinking that far ahead on the monetisation aspect, haha. I threw a couple of small Google ads on there which won't do anything considering everyone blocks them anyway. I kind of built it as something to breakaway from my day job and other projects, I'm trying to build one app like this per month for 2017.
My apologies. I confused myself and made a typo with the URL, it is: https://tempfile.cloud/
It was more of a quickly thrown together app. I'll keep it up though, I've used it a couple of times myself now. I find most of the other sites like these either make you sign up, offer smaller upload limits of 300 to 500mb or they spam you with horrible popup windows and pornographic banner ads.
API is a good idea. At the moment the uploads are direct to S3 from the browser using presigned URL's, but wouldn't be too hard to add one in though.
I am absolutely logging everything that is uploaded. One of the first things I did was implement some solid logging.
The captcha is just using Google's Recaptcha service. Yeah, I don't think the ad revenue will pay for the cost, but I set myself a challenge and managed to get something working quickly.
It's built using Aurelia for the client-side and Node.js for the backend using Restify to create a quick REST API for handling the requests.