five minutes or forever

Most of what we send online outlives its purpose: a contract in an old email thread, an API key buried in Slack history, a shared folder nobody remembers making. The internet is brilliant at keeping things it should have forgotten.

ttl.space puts you in charge of that. Drop in a file, give it a time to live and share the link. When the clock runs out, the file is deleted, with no bin to fish it out of. Switch on burn after reading and it vanishes the moment it’s downloaded.

Some things should stick around, though. With an Orbit account, files can live for up to 30 days or for good, so ttl.space doubles as an encrypted backup. Orbit also brings 50 GB uploads, a dashboard, file requests that let others send you files only you can open, and plenty more besides.

Either way, everything is encrypted in your browser before it leaves your machine. Argon2id turns your password into a key and XChaCha20-Poly1305 does the rest, so all the server ever sees of your file is noise. No password, no file. That goes for me too.

The basics are free, with no account, no ads and no tracking. Have a go at ttl.space.