• lolc 6 hours ago |
    This can be very useful.

    Indeed my Android phone sees my Linux PC. And the PC can send a file to the phone. At first the file transfer to the PC didn't work and the icons just twitched. After 5 minutes it works now strangely enough.

  • smusamashah 6 hours ago |
    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?

    • ranger_danger 5 hours ago |
      There is a fork of it here: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
      • smusamashah 2 hours 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.
    • jtokoph an hour ago |
      It seems to be the original developer relaunching. Here is an old show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791403
    • xp84 an hour ago |
      Wait, LimeWire? That still exists? How??
  • saadn92 5 hours ago |
    I've had this need recently and noticed that tailscale is extremely useful between phone to mac transfers as well. I mean you can also technically use airdrop too, but that sometimes is unreliable for me.
  • mathfailure 5 hours ago |
    File transfers do not work. Even after allowing microphone access on both ends.
    • _carbyau_ 14 minutes ago |
      What is the microphone access for?

      Do you need to say "My voice is my passport." or something?

  • Redster 5 hours ago |
    If you like Snapdrop, you'll love croc!

    I used Snapdrop before they got bought and found it pretty reliable. It sometimes would not transfer and I went exploring.

    I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it, but now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything. Whether it's sending files to myself or others, it's just the most flexible and seems to be reliable and fast from my use.

    (I haven't been using it super long, but I heartily recommend.)

    • canadiantim 5 hours ago |
      What about something like Iroh?
      • Redster 5 hours ago |
        I've never used Iroh; can you use it with no setup or without an account? I send/receive files often enough from non-technical people, having a no-install/accountless solution for sending files is essential. For my use-case, my go to is croc or Bitwarden Send (I'm on a paid acct), depending on the person.

        Update: I see that there are many ways to do this accountless. For some reason the search result was iroh.computer and I made some assumptions. There are definitely some iroh-based options that look like they would have essentially the same UX that I'm going for. Would love to hear if there's some specific pros or cons to croc or iroh.

  • inexcf 5 hours ago |
    Why does this look exactly like https://pairdrop.net/ ?
  • ProAm 4 hours ago |
    What year is this?
  • dhanizael 4 hours ago |
    good work!
  • hn_acc1 3 hours ago |
    So does this host the files? For free? How long before ads start / you have to register / subscription model, etc?
    • tredre3 an hour ago |
      > None of your files are ever sent to any server. Files are sent only between peers. Snapdrop doesn't even use a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. Even if Snapdrop was able to view the files being transfered, WebRTC encrypts the files on transit, so the server would be unable to read them.

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

  • analog8374 3 hours ago |
    I like localsend mself
  • nitin7 3 hours ago |
    I have used localsend. How is snapdrop this different from https://github.com/localsend/localsend?
    • noncoml 31 minutes ago |
      LocalSend doesn’t work for non /24 subnets
  • kyxsc 3 hours ago |
    Use Tether!!
  • djfobbz 2 hours ago |
    Terrible service. I used to use it back in the days until it starting going down all of the time. Switched to localsend and never looked back.
  • ftchd 15 minutes ago |
    I'll usually go with pairdrop.net, never failed me!