ShareDrop
Dev tools
peer-to-peer file transfer
SHOW HN2014
165points
68comments
#140of 2,272 in 2014
Top 7%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, AirDrop-like file sharing that works across platforms in a browser
From 4 comments
Holy fucking shit this is the best thing since sliced bread. You don't know how much I hate emailing file attachments.
rainmaking on HNThis is really amazing! I had a bit of trouble on my first attempt because I was connected to a VPN, so ShareDrop was considering me to be in the 10.* range (my local IP address…
NathanKP on HNI opened this with the Hamachi VPN open, and suddenly could share files with my computer on the other side of the world. I have a Mac so usually do this via the built-in sharing…
marquis on HNWasn't sure if this would be useful to me without mobile support, but man, it really saved my ass today. Thanks for this.
hmhrex on HN
Avoids emailing files and sends directly between devices
From 2 comments
Holy fucking shit this is the best thing since sliced bread. You don't know how much I hate emailing file attachments.
rainmaking on HNNo central server to intercept the file in transit
arcameron on HN
Objections
Only works in Chrome and Opera; Firefox and Safari unsupported
From 2 comments
No idea why it asked for Flash. At this moment the app works only in Chrome and Opera, because Firefox doesn't support HTML5 FileSystem API. There's a polyfill for that, but we…
szimek on HNIt depends on what you mean by "mobile" :) It works between Chrome on Android and desktop. Unfortunately, Safari (neither desktop nor mobile) doesn't support WebRTC.
szimek on HN
Reports wrong IP address behind VPNs and on some networks
From 3 comments
This is really amazing! I had a bit of trouble on my first attempt because I was connected to a VPN, so ShareDrop was considering me to be in the 10.* range (my local IP address…
NathanKP on HNit got my vmware IP address, not the actual one.
est on HNThis is really cool! Initially, I tried using this between a computer on my 2.4 GHz band and a computer on my 5 GHz band, and I guess the JavaScript wasn't able to determine the…
lerxst on HN
Requires a shared network, unlike AirDrop
From 1 comment
Cool, but one major advantage to airdrop is that it doesn't require a local network at all, so you can airdrop even without any wifi AP in range.
0x0 on HN
Requests
Firefox support
From 1 comment
No idea why it asked for Flash. At this moment the app works only in Chrome and Opera, because Firefox doesn't support HTML5 FileSystem API. There's a polyfill for that, but we…
szimek on HN
Mobile Chrome on iOS support
From 1 comment
This is really cool. I am curious why Chrome on iOS wasn't made available yet? (i.e. if there was technical roadblock that made it difficult for you to do so.)
dhfromkorea on HN
Transfers between networks
From 1 comment
Hopefully, we'll add sending files between networks pretty soon as well. However, it's already possible with similar WebRTC based services like https://www.sharefest.me/ or…
szimek on HN
Faster transfer speeds
From 1 comment
I'm getting transfer speeds of ~970KB/s (checking using iStat). Averaging nearly 1MB/s isn't bad, but I'm curious, could this go faster?
sfaruque on HN
Questions
Why WebRTC instead of websockets
From 1 comment
Noob question: It seems like websockets is more appropriate for sending files to peers, why would they go for webrtc?
utopkara on HN
Why it rejects some browser versions and asks for Flash
From 2 comments
It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"? Then: We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop…
skrowl on HNI'm running Chrome version 26.0.1410.63 on Linux, and I'm getting the not supported error message. Is there a minimum Chrome version?
alexjh on HN
Alternatives named
ShareFest / RTCopy (WebRTC)
From 1 comment
Hopefully, we'll add sending files between networks pretty soon as well. However, it's already possible with similar WebRTC based services like https://www.sharefest.me/ or…
szimek on HN
Dukto
From 1 comment
A cross-platform (but not web-based) open-source LAN file-transfer tool that I've used in the past is dukto: https://code.google.com/p/dukto/
barbs on HN
EZ Drop and wsend (server-based)
From 2 comments
Something similar (with a server in the middle) for android<->computer is EZ Drop: http://ez.dropper.co
nanch on HNAnother one with a server in the middle: https://wsend.net/upload
abemassry on HN
SumoDrop
From 1 comment
Looks like a clone of my friends page: http://www.sumodrop.com *edit: I guess 'clone' is too strong. I meant to imply it has similar functionality, not that it is carbon copied.…
rpowers on HN