A SaaS Founder's Free File-Drop Feature Took 37.1 Million Requests in 24 Hours Before Being Shut Off
r/SaaS·medium signal
BugSmash launched 'drop' — upload an HTML file or zip, get a live hosted link in seconds, modeled on Cloudflare and Netlify drop — and reported 37.1 million requests within 24 hours, forcing them to block it (74 upvotes, 37 comments on r/SaaS). The pattern is worth noting because unauthenticated instant-hosting endpoints are now a prime target for automated abuse at a volume no indie infrastructure budget survives. The same founder space that ships fast with AI is discovering that the abuse surface scales just as fast as the build speed.