Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by feross on Sunday May 16, 2021 @03:26PM (#27176271)

In 2013, I started https://webtorrent.io the first torrent client that runs in a web browser. It’s open source here: https://github.com/webtorrent

I built it to make torrent technology more accessible to the masses. We’re still actively building it and we even have a slick desktop app that uses the same engine for streaming.

WebTorrent also powers https://wormhole.app an end-to-end encrypted file sending service that I built with my friend jhiesey.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by tediousdemise on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:04PM (#27176567)

Wormhole looks awesome!

I was looking for something just like this a few days ago since Firefox Send was shitcanned by Mozilla. I ended up using send-anywhere, but Wormhole looks so much better. I wish it showed up in my Google results when I needed it.

Is Wormhole p2p? If so, why the 10 GB limit? If it’s not p2p, why are you storing user data on servers (even if it’s E2E encrypted)?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by indigo945 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:12PM (#27176638)

According to the explanation on the website, it appears that the 10GB limit only applies if you make the optional choice to also store a copy of the file on Wormhole's servers, to keep the file available after you close your browser.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by tediousdemise on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:29PM (#27176761)

Where did you find that? The tooltip I saw says they store files up to 5 GB on their servers, but it doesn’t appear to give you a choice. It also says that for files larger than 5 GB, it will use p2p (that answers one of my previous questions, I guess), but it still says “up to 10 GB.”

Why would there be a 10 GB limitation for p2p transfers if data is not being stored remotely?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by smashah on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:34PM (#27178283)

I'm looking forward to a npm ads follow up. I feel like opinions have changed around money and open source.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by qorrect on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:27AM (#27195940)

Say what now?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by nneonneo on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:25PM (#27179111)

I got WebTorrent running on iOS via play.js (Node, rather than Safari, so it supports native sockets etc.). Might be the first non-jailbroken torrent client for iOS :) Very nice project, and works extremely well!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by easrng on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:58PM (#27179317)

iTorrent[1] works non-jailbroken, however you need to sideload it with something like AltStore [2].

[1]: https://github.com/XITRIX/iTorrent

[2]: https://altstore.io

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by coconut_man on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:42AM (#27180644)

kudos to you, I love Webtorrent. Thanks for making such great app!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself? by vdraman259 on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:31AM (#27180886)

Wormhole is Killer. Love it.

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