Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by chetangoti on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:11AM (#27482023)

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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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by yamrzou on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:49AM (#27482206)

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

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by plibither8 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:05AM (#27482283)

Also FilePizza: https://file.pizza/

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by anaganisk on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:52AM (#27482532)

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

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by quenix on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:50AM (#27483823)

Ditto, never got it to work.

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by chkal on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:54AM (#27482885)

Same here.

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by jerrygoyal on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:26AM (#27483688)

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

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by dzhiurgis on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:01PM (#27487771)

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

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by crossroadsguy on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:10AM (#27482958)

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.

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by nguyenkien on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:22AM (#27483020)

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

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by yvbbrjdr on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:55AM (#27484131)

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.

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by edwinyzh on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:38AM (#27483095)

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

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Re:Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file tra... by luke2m on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:34AM (#27483734)

Easily self hostable as well

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