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Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by toastercat »

javajosh wrote: post #13

Surprised no-one mentioned https://syncthing.net/ yet. That would seem to be the main competitor for such an app. Still, perhaps there's a market for something a little more user friendly and streamlined. Nice work!

To be fair, the developers of Syncthing have been explicit that Syncthing is not intended to be a file transfer application, and that you should avoid doing so. Syncthing is designed to keep two folders on separate devices in sync at all times.

That said, I have used it at times to "transfer" a single file that I copy paste elsewhere and then delete from the sync folder. Sorry Syncthing devs..

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by jwells89 »

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jwells89 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How demanding/complex upkeep is may be a big factor here. For something like a single platform utility, the burden is relatively low because the number of things that can break is bounded (as long as public APIs are used, private API usage is another matter). With a Mac app like Magnet there’s one time each year chance of breakages occurring is high (new OS release), which devs are given several months ahead of time…

> Multiplatform apps obviously multiply that burden They also multiply the number of potential customers, so I don’t see that being a problem. > with some platforms being more problematic than others That _is_ part of the problem. As a developer, you have to compare your programming effort with expected revenues, so if a platform is “more problematic”, you’d only develop for it if you expected to get more revenue fro…

> They also multiply the number of potential customers, so I don’t see that being a problem.

This is something I believe requires some research, because each platform is a bit of a different market. Point in case, the market for Magnet exists only because macOS has no Aero Snap type system built into its window management — a utility like it probably wouldn’t sell enough copies to justify Windows or Linux ports.

There’s plenty of software where multiplatform makes sense, but it’s not certainly not universal.

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by beingforthebene »

Almondsetat wrote: post #34

Still no automatic and seamless WiFi ad-hoc network creation for fast offline file transfer. Please stop claiming to be an "AirDrop for Android" if you can't implement this. Also Samsung's QuickShare and Google's NearbyShare not only have gotten a lot better but are merging together and being incorporated into Windows and elsewhere

Seriously, this is a completely different use-case than Airdrop

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by MostlyStable »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #64

Considering how boring and generic phones have become, if you’re really hell bent on airdrop just get an iPhone like the majority of the world. Who in there right mind would pay for this?

If price is your main concern here, recommending switching to Apple seems completely unhinged. Don't get me wrong, Apple has a lot of advantages, but price is absolutely not one of them.
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