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Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2014-03-25 · latest 2024-08-18

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  1. https://www.sharedrop.io (source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop ) is a great user friendly option as well. I use it with friends, and even between VMs on the same machine.
    comment by scosman · 2024-08-18 · in Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
  2. …to transfer from Windows to iOS, Windows to macOS and macOS to iOS without installing a thing. [1] https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop
    comment by etra0 · 2024-08-17 · in Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
  3. Sadly things are a bit broken if IPv6 is involved: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/issues/55
    comment by BitPirate · 2024-07-07 · in Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop
  4. …versions available: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://github.com/jchorl/sendfiles https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop
    comment by nrvn · 2024-05-05 · in Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server
  5. …https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop ShareDrop - Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/ - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop FilePizza - Site: https://file.pizza/ - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza Original Wormhole -…
    comment by vinnymac · 2024-02-15 · in How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
  6. …through their servers, although encrypted. [0]: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/ [1]: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop
    comment by doodlesdev · 2024-01-05 · in Ask HN: What is the best FOSS file sharing protocol/app?
  7. https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop "If I was feeling paranoid and wanted to know if my files are being sent to some third destination..." then I would not use a third party website. I would want to prevent this unauthorised transmisison…
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2023-08-25 · in LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN
  8. …https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop ShareDrop - Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/ - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop FilePizza - Site: https://file.pizza/ - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza Wormhole - Site:…
    comment by vinnymac · 2022-01-02 · in OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
  9. Also ShareDrop: https://www.sharedrop.io/ https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop
    comment by yamrzou · 2021-06-12 · in Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool
  10. …that are peer to peer - [1]: https://github.com/kern/file.pizza https://file.pizza [2]: https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop https://sharedrop.io [3]: https://github.com/webtorrent/instant.io https://instant.io [4]:…
    comment by thrwaway69 · 2019-12-28 · in Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust
  11. An HTML5 alternative: https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop Uses WebRTC for file transfer.
    comment by smurfpandey · 2019-08-19 · in OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
  12. …can use it without installing a Python ecosystem [8]. [1]: https://github.com/nils-werner/zget [2]: https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop [3]: https://github.com/webtorrent/instant.io [4]: https://github.com/kern/filepizza [5]:…
    comment by qrv3w · 2018-06-20 · in Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line
  13. …http://sharedrop.io , which was featured on HN a couple years ago and also uses WebRTC. Source: https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7468328
    comment by tjohns · 2016-02-28 · in Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC
  14. …. If you're interested, you can check out the relevant source code for presence management at https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop/blob/master/app/scripts... and WebRTC signaling at https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop/blob/master/app/scrip…
    comment by szimek · 2014-03-26 · in Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser
  15. …anyway. We'll continue working on Firefox support. The whole source code is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop ), so anyone can help.
    comment by szimek · 2014-03-25 · in Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser
  16. Sure, we mention it even in the README ( https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop/blob/master/README.md ). There's probably a workaround if you have a phone with internet access - you could create a local WiFi network on it and connect to…
    comment by szimek · 2014-03-25 · in Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser