About

cloudyload started because sending a file shouldn't require an account, an app, or ten minutes reading a privacy policy.

Most file-sharing tools want something from you first. An email address. A password. A desktop client. A plan. Somewhere along the way the simple thing — handing one file to one person — turned into a product with a funnel. We wanted the opposite: open a page, drop a file, get a link, walk away.

So that's all cloudyload does. You drop a file and we give you a short link and a QR code. You decide how long it should live — an hour, a day, or a week — and when that time is up, it deletes itself. There's no inbox, no library of old uploads, no “you have 3 files about to expire” email. When you're done, there's nothing left to clean up.

What we believe

Less is the feature. Every box we don't add is one less thing for you to think about. We'd rather ship something small that you understand completely than something large you have to trust blindly.

Privacy by default, not by setting. We don't have accounts, so there's nothing to profile. Files are encrypted before they leave your device, they expire on a schedule you pick, and we keep request logs only long enough to keep the service running — then they're gone. There's no toggle to find; this is just how it works.

Boring, dependable tech. Nothing fancy under the hood — just well-understood pieces that do their job quietly. We're not chasing a stack; we're chasing uptime and a page that loads instantly. If a feature would make the thing harder to reason about, it usually doesn't make the cut.

Who's behind it

A small group of people who got tired of over-built tools and decided to make the one they actually wanted to use. We stay out of the way on purpose, including here — no founder story, no headshots. The work is the point.

— the cloudyload team