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I really don't understand HN's obsession with webrtc based file sharing tools. 1 of these is posted every 6 months or so, Every version of it is doing more or less the same thing and every time it gets to the front page and stays on it for a while. What's happening?

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I guess they seem to solve a common difficulty (cross-device file sharing), but in the end they are not good enough to be widely adopted, and they get forgotten.

The main feature that's missing from all these services is: integration into whatever messaging application the user is already using (email, Whatsapp, ...)

So posting one of these every six months or so counts as an obsession?

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