A Permanent File Drop URL: Replace Email Attachments With /u/yourname

Most file-transfer services give you a one-shot link: the sender creates a session, the receiver uses the code, the link dies. That model works fine when you know in advance who is sending what. It breaks the moment you want a permanent "send me a file" button — the kind that lives on a business card, an email signature, an Instagram bio, an invoice footer.

File Tunnel's persistent inbox URL is exactly that. Activate Pro Pass, claim a slug like myname, and your permanent address becomes file-tunnel.site/u/myname. Anyone who visits drops a file in seconds — the file streams peer-to-peer when you come online to receive, and you get an email notification with the transfer code the moment the sender starts.

Where a permanent inbox URL earns its keep

• Photographer / videographer. Your studio website says "Send wedding videos to file-tunnel.site/u/cheols-photo." No client account, no upload manager, no mystery 30-day link rot.
• Designer / illustrator. A client sends you a brief PDF or reference images straight from their phone — no Figma share, no Drive permission dance.
• Freelance journalist. Sources can drop documents without creating an account and without trusting a third-party dropbox. The link is yours, you control how long it works.
• Translator / lawyer / accountant. Clients forward source documents at the moment of need — no back-and-forth "can you send a Wetransfer link please."
• Coach / consultant. Inbox URL printed on the intake form — clients send filled-out questionnaires without email-attachment drama.

Why a permanent inbox is different from email

Email attachments cap somewhere between 10 MB and 25 MB depending on the provider, take time to upload, and create a copy in your mailbox forever. A persistent inbox URL has none of those constraints:

• Real-time, not stored. The file streams peer-to-peer when you receive. We never write it to disk on our side.
• No size cap from us. The sender's plan is what governs — anonymous senders can drop up to 10 GB, Pro senders up to 200 GB.
• You stay in control of timing. The transfer waits until you enter the code; if you ignore the email, nothing happens.
• The URL is portable. Print it on physical things — business cards, posters, conference badges. It will still work next year.

How the receive flow looks for the sender

1. Visitor goes to file-tunnel.site/u/yourname. They see your display name in the header (e.g. "Drop a file for Cheol's Photo Studio").
2. They drag a file in or click the upload button. Same File Tunnel send UI you already know — they don't need an account.
3. The session is created. They get a transfer code on screen. You get an email with the same code and the file name.
4. Whenever you open the email — five minutes or three hours later — click "Receive now". File-tunnel.site opens with the code pre-filled. The peer-to-peer transfer starts.

The privacy model is exactly the same as a normal transfer

Owning a /u/<slug> inbox does not change how the data moves. We never persist file bytes. The slug-to-license-key mapping lives in our database, but the file content streams between the sender's browser and yours — we are a real-time relay, not a storage host. If you delete the inbox or your Pro Pass lapses, the URL stops resolving; nothing about old transfers becomes more or less recoverable.

How to claim your slug

1. Activate Pro Pass.
2. Scroll to the Your inbox URL section on /pro.
3. Pick a slug — lowercase letters, digits, hyphens, 3–30 characters. Reserved words (api, pro, u, etc.) are blocked.
4. Optionally set a display name ("Cheol's Photo Studio") and override the notification email.
5. Click Claim inbox. Your URL is live the moment the form succeeds.

If you later want a different slug, hit the same form with a new value — the move is atomic, and the old URL stops resolving the same instant.