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Pinata
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Pinata is the company blog at pinata.cloud, writing about programming and web. Since 2019, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Pinata: Manage Video and Files on IPFS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pinata's site for its IPFS pinning and hosting service. Comments discuss its free tier, pricing above 1GB, and its use for pinning and deploying static sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Easily manage your IPFS files to upload, serve, and index files across the IPFS network.
Most-linked posts?
- Pinata: Manage Video and Files on IPFS4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-17
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-01
What Hacker News says?
Piñata is great and I'm a happy user, but one note: Piñata is not free above 1GB. You can see their pricing page here: https://pinata.cloud/pricing .
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on “IPFS Support in Brave”Submitted Saving a Million Dollars on AWS with ChatGPT O1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI recommend Pinata [0] for IPFS pinning if you do not want to host your own IPFS node. I'm not sure when they'll start charging but it's been free since they launched and I believe Infura [1] also has free pinning. Cloudflare [2] is a good alternative gateway to use. For deployment I use this deploy tool [3] which makes it as simple as `ipd -p pinata my-app` to host a static frontend. [0] https://pinata.cloud/ [1] h…
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on “IPFS Support in Brave”Submitted Pay to Pin on IPFS with X402 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm wondering that as well so dug into the site. IPFS is a way to host and distribute files. It's not free. To have files distributed they need to be hosted somewhere. You can do this yourself by hosting an IPFS server at home or in the cloud. On IPFS this is called a "pin". Pinata host and serves your files to pin them on IPFS. That's why their list of services is that of a cloud provider. From their pricing/plans…
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on “YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video”Submitted Pinata launches submarine.me to share private NFTs on IPFS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.pinata.cloud/ this could be a place to start! makes it easy to upload content and host it on IPFS.
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on “YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video”Submitted Show HN: A CLI for building and deploying Openclaw agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNote that the Filecoin network (which was designed to be the incentive layer for IPFS storage) has been operational for some time. If you look at the current status at https://file.app/ , you can see that storage costs there are extremely low for large amounts of data. If you can get your data verified as open, public data by applying for datacap with a Filecoin+ notary, it's currently free. See https://plus.fil.org…
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on “HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)”Submitted The Lobster Pot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOr "centralized" ones like Fleek, Textile, Pinata, etc. https://fleek.co/hosting/ https://docs.textile.io/buckets/ https://www.pinata.cloud/
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on “Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups”Submitted The GDP of IPFS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI imagine you would ensure the persistence of the data you care about by either running your own IPFS nodes that pin the data, or by using a pinning service like Pinata [1]. [1] https://pinata.cloud/
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on “Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1”Submitted Can blockchains be our sync engines? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYep. That is the price practiced by Pinata[1] after 1GB, and by Eternum[2] at the outset (no free tier). [1]: https://pinata.cloud/ [2]: https://www.eternum.io/
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on “Show HN: IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS”Submitted Pinata Raises $21.5M to Empower Web3 Creators and the Future of NFTs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Where is the content hosted once the build has been finished? There's services like INFURA [0] and Pinata [1] that will pin content for free. It's as simple as using ipfs-deploy [2] to publish the build directory to one of those IPFS pinning services. [0] https://infura.io/docs/ipfs/get/pin_add [1] https://pinata.cloud/ [2] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy
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on “Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps on IPFS”Submitted Pinata: Manage Video and Files on IPFS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"What is stored on the blockchain is most often a link to a web page[6] that itself points to the associated object. Here again, we have lost all idea of decentralization" No where in the article did the author mention IPFS ( https://ipfs.io/ ). The trend with NFTs is that the digital assets are stored on IPFS, typically through a pinning service like Pinata ( https://www.pinata.cloud/ ). With the asset being conten…
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on “NFT: even more deceiving”I’ve thought about this a lot before in my personal and professional life. If you combine JSON with a SQLite database, you can get the best of both worlds. Disclaimer, I wrote this for work but it is based on ideas I developed outside of work. https://pinata.cloud/blog/will-json-work-as-a-database/
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on “Are Databases going to start dissappearing?”Hey HN community! 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. Full disclosure, this app was built under the Pinata ( https://pinata.cloud…
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on “Show HN: Next Level Token-Gating – Serve Media Based on NFT Ownership”