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Burn After
Single-use file links that disappear after opening
Burn After lets you send sensitive files using single-use links that expire after first access. No recipient account required. Useful for tax documents, IDs, contracts, PDFs, or anything you’d rather not leave sitting in someone’s inbox forever. Upload a file, share the link, and once it’s opened, the link expires and the file is removed shortly after.
I built Burn After because sometimes you need to send sensitive documents... but you don't want the file sitting around in someone's inbox forever.
Burn After creates single-use links that expire after first access, then removes the file shortly after.
Stop emailing sensitive documents. Send files that burn after opening.
Useful for:
• tax documents
• IDs and forms
• contracts
• sensitive PDFs
• anything you’d rather not leave sitting in an inbox forever
No account required for the recipient. Just a link that works once.
Would love feedback 🙏
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Single-use expiring file links is a clean and simple idea. No account required for the recipient is the right call — adds friction kills adoption. I've needed something like this for sending credentials and signed contracts. Curious if there's a TTL option for links that are never opened.
I have a quick question, @ezrafree. For the single-use links, what happens if the download gets interrupted mid-transfer? Does the link still expire, or can the user retry safely?
Congrats on the launch! The problem is real and underserved. One question, what happens on the server side between upload and the link being opened, is the deletion verifiable?
About Burn After on Product Hunt
“Single-use file links that disappear after opening”
Burn After was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 12 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Burn After lets you send sensitive files using single-use links that expire after first access. No recipient account required. Useful for tax documents, IDs, contracts, PDFs, or anything you’d rather not leave sitting in someone’s inbox forever. Upload a file, share the link, and once it’s opened, the link expires and the file is removed shortly after.
Burn After was featured in Email (36.7k followers), Privacy (11.1k followers) and Security (2.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 17.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Burn After?
Burn After was hunted by Ezra Free. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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