Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing

Re:Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing by feross on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:13PM (#26667847)

There's no relation to magic-wormhole. wormhole.app is an independent design and implementation. It's a similar in spirit to Firefox Send (and uses the same ECE streaming encryption that they did). Our design supports instant streaming (instant share link, downloader can start downloading before upload is finished) and peer-to-peer transfer (based on the WebTorrent protocol, which I created).

The word "wormhole" seems to be used in many different tools. For example, try running `brew info wormhole`. You don't get magic-wormhole or wormhole.app but something else entirely.

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Re:Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing by wolverine876 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:18PM (#26667880)

This isn't a crowded namespace, relative to many other domains. File transfer isn't setting SV and Wall Street on fire. It may look to some like you are capitalizing on Magic Wormhole's reputation, and whether you intend to or not, you may be doing that - people will confuse them.

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Re:Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing by Klonoar on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:01PM (#26668682)

It's worth noting that your comment makes slightly more sense when viewed with the original comment it's responding to, which said it's a crowded namespace already. Not sure why the edit happened.

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Re:Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing by lburton on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:19AM (#26669186)

There is also another - webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole / https://webwormhole.io/

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