Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup

Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup snapdrop.me

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But SnapDrop was sold to LimeWire from what I remember, wasn't it? I have it on my (somewhat popular) list https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...

Edit: so that was SnapDrop.net this is so confusing now. Are you the author of that GitHub repo?

jtokoph13 days ago

It seems to be the original developer relaunching. Here is an old show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791403

ranger_danger13 days ago

There is a fork of it here: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop

smusamashah13 days ago

Looking at the history of the github repo of this show hn, the readme was previously linking to now Sold to LimeWire SnapDrop.net. Github author recently changed that to SnapDrop.me and is either doing a Show HN himself or this is another fishy play by LimeWire.

xp8413 days ago

Wait, LimeWire? That still exists? How??

Hugsbox13 days ago

Damn, had to look it up but it's still around.

"Our end-to-end encrypted, AI-powered file sharing platform allows you to upload, manipulate & share files of any size, on any device."

Their website also reports that LMWR is $0.0098, so I guess we'll want to get on that before it goes to the moon.

Capira11 days ago

snapdrop.me is the relaunch

nitin713 days ago

I have used localsend. How is snapdrop this different from https://github.com/localsend/localsend?

sfwf13 days ago

First, snapdrop shouldn't be used at all, it was sold to LimeWire along with some other similar P2P sites (sharedrop, easyupload) so only https://pairdrop.net/ can be trusted.

The difference is that localsend has dedicated apps as well, but sometimes you just quickly need the web version and for me https://web.localsend.org/ is often too slow to connect or devices can't see each other, meanwhile https://pairdrop.net/ always work.

noncoml13 days ago

LocalSend doesn’t work for non /24 subnets

justusthane13 days ago

Are you sure? That would be a bizarre limitation. It seems much more likely there's something else going on where it's not working

fmajid12 days ago

Works just fine on my 10.0.0.0/8

nullify8813 days ago

I've used a bunch of similar tooling like airdrop and localsend. I don't have alot faith in them a little since they usually choke on large files or many files. I'm still looking for something that works well in those cases without resorting to a cable / MTP which isn't fantastic either.

smusamashah13 days ago

Webwormhole.io should work theoretically on file of any size because it does not keep the file being downloaded in memory/cache first. It downloads as a file as soon as it starts.

In practice, I have used syncthing to transfer many giga bytes data from one work computer to other because syncthing uses lot more discovery protocols etc to work around restrictions.

mhitza13 days ago

I can't report on percentage improvement, but after a long time localsend recently pushed out a version that claims to be much better (to be read as faster) for the transfer of large/many files.

For a long time the issue was blocked because of an upstream library, maybe LLMs finally unblocked the devs to push the fixes through.

hobo12313 days ago

Once I tried Airdrop between Macbooks it was very flaky. Haven't had any problems with localsend so far (Windows, Linux, Android).

inexcf13 days ago

Why does this look exactly like https://pairdrop.net/ ?

lawilli13 days ago

Pairdrop is listed in the “Inofficial” instances section of Snapdrop’s GitHub FAQ

https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop/blob/master/docs/faq....

SoKamil13 days ago

Pairdrop is a fork with new features.

See: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop#differences-to-th...

EagnaIonat13 days ago

Both look like Airdrop. Is this for people who don't have airdrop? I am not seeing the benefits.

jdranczewski13 days ago

Yes, as someone who doesn't use Apple devices Pairdrop is pretty useful.

bart3r13 days ago

I wanted to try it out, so i fired it up on my laptop and my phone. The laptop experience was pleasant, but on the mobile, the ads seemed to be covering the nearby devices, and it felt like full scam-ware.

So close, yet, so far.

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