About
TaskMetrics started as a side project — the kind of thing that grows out of frustration. Sending a 600 MB recording to a friend should not require an account, an app install, three pop-ups asking about cookies, and a marketing email a week later. So I wrote a small tool that does exactly one thing: it takes a file and gives back a link. The link works for 24 hours. Then the file is gone.
There is no signup, no profile, no dashboard, no "team plan", no AI summarizer, no integrations marketplace. There is a drop-zone and a link. That is the entire product, and that is on purpose.
Philosophy
I like software that respects the person using it. That means not collecting data I do not need, not asking for an email address as a toll, and not pretending a 30 KB tool is a "platform". Privacy is the default because it is easier to build that way and because it is what I would want as a user.
It also means the site itself is small. No tracking script, no font weighing in at 80 KB, no JavaScript framework for what is essentially a form. If you are reading this on a slow connection, it should still feel instant.
Stack
Boring tech that just works. A small HTTP server, an S3-compatible object store with short-lived presigned URLs, and a cron job that sweeps anything older than a day. Files are encrypted at rest with a key derived per-upload, and TLS is handled by the reverse proxy. Nothing exotic — the goal is for the system to be small enough that one person can keep it in their head.
Funding
TaskMetrics costs about as much as a couple of coffees a month to run, and that comes out of my own pocket. If it ever stops being free I will say so loudly, on this page, and give people time to grab their links. There is no investor deck. There is no growth target.
If something breaks, or if you have a question, the source for the page you are looking at is on the changelog. The code is small. Read it.
— the TaskMetrics maintainer