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Comment by chetangoti | Hacker News Reader

This looks good.

There is similar tool which web based and opensource Snapdrop[0](https://snapdrop.net/) which works on the same network.

[0] https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

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Also ShareDrop: https://www.sharedrop.io/

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

Also FilePizza: https://file.pizza/

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

I was never able to make file.pizza work either on lan or over the web.

Ditto, never got it to work.

Same here.

to point out this is different and needs network data to upload and download files.

Tried using Sharedrop and it was super slow. Way quicker to just upload to wetransfer.

Having actual apps go a long way. Especially if it’s trying to be an AirDrop like app and these apps not being electron apps is such an added bonus.

I prefer PWA like snapdrop. All you need is a browser.

Yeah I've also done my research and found a lot of similar stuff. The problem with this particular one is it requires Internet* to work. I don't feel good about WebRTC and having to share my public IP address for such a task.

Also, it requires you to open a webpage every time you use it. I'd really like the user experience of AirDrop that you need to do nothing to receive files. So I made LANDrop a daemon-like stuff.

* It has a mode that you can save the page offline, but that doesn't work with iOS.

Tried snapdrop, but it didn't work. Not sure if it's related to the GFW....

Easily self hostable as well

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