Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC

I guess it would be a bit better to call it “inspired” by AirDrop rather than a “clone”, as it doesn’t use AWDL for discovery (rather, it seems to use Firebase).

Snapdrop is also available: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

I’ve been using this for quite a while, and recently I’ve run into the trouble that the fire base account was overcapacity. Not sure if it’s been fixed since then, but I’ve had to use the QR code instead of the automatic detection. Still, really nice tool.

I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet.

That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only sharing file between folks on the same network. I applaud the effort, I will certainly like to try this out soon!

> Sharedrop: HTML5 clone of Apple's AirDrop – easy P2P file transfer powered by W

Powered by W? Is W a new programming language or JavaScript framework?

It looks like @todsacerdoti is not aware that Hacker News submissions are limited to 80 characters in the title. They probably wanted to submit “HTML5 clone of Apple's AirDrop - easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC” which is 73 characters long and represents the current project headline on GitHub, but then they added the project name at the beginning “Sharedrop:” turning the title into a 79 characters long string cutting “WebRTC” out. I think this would have been enough: “Sharedrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC”.