Submarine.me: The easiest way to share exclusive content with your friends.

Submarine.me

Maker

I’m excited to showcase an app I helped build during the ETHDenver Hackathon last week. It’s called submarine.me and it lets anyone—technical or not—upload private, IPFS-backed content that they can lock behind an NFT with a simple share link. Anyone with the link can prove they own the NFT in question and unlock the media. The idea stemmed from the original release of a feature my company, Pinata, calls Submarine. We rolled this feature out last year, and it let people upload media to private storage nodes, generate IPFS content identifiers for verifiability, and share that content with a selective audience. The problem was that individuals and communities wanted to have more complex mechanisms and automation for sharing the media. They didn’t want to have to manually generate a link to the content. For developers, this was no problem. They could write code and implement their own solutions to programmatically generate access tokens for the locked content based on the criteria they set. For non-technical creators, this was a non-starter. We believe submarine.me solves that. Creators simply have to choose how they’d like their media to be unlocked (currently submarine.me only supports NFT unlocking, but more mechanisms will be rolling out soon), provide preview data about the locked media, then upload the media that should be private. When they do so, a simple link is generated. These creators can then safely share that link on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, or anywhere else they want, knowing that unauthorized people will not be able to unlock the content. For those that are trying to retrieve the media, the experience is dead simple. Go to the link, sign a message verifying control of the Ethereum wallet that holds the NFT, and if they do, in fact, have the NFT in their wallet, the private media is returned. If they don’t have the NFT, they are blocked. Excited to see what everyone thinks!

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3yr ago

Jake Boyles

The Visionary by Crew

Beautiful. Love it. Question though. On the email you guys said it could unlock memberships, 1v1 meetings etc. How do you foresee that working if the unlock able is just a file? Do you foresee an API or some other types of integrations or just IPFS type files for now?

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3yr ago

Sarah Dutra

Submarine.me

Maker

@jakeboyles thanks so much, Jake!

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3yr ago

Jake Boyles

The Visionary by Crew

@sarah_dutra12 No problem, edited for a little more clarification on the file side though and the email that you sent, thanks!

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3yr ago

Justin Hunter

Submarine.me

Maker

Hey Jake! Thanks for the comment and questions. We already have an API available for Submarine. So devs can take that and build literally anything. Here’s the link to the docs: https://managed.mypinata.cloud/a... But I can see people potentially getting creative without writing code and using submarine.me to share meeting invites. An invite can be a downloadable file, but that’s just me spitballing 😀

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3yr ago