Surprised syncthing isn't mentioned yet. It has been the most stable sync tool for me over the years https://syncthing.net/ . Solid product . Great oboarding experience for Blip! Its just working!
Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
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Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's truly p2p, some relay would be there in case the client cannot be reached through NAT. Not sure how they would bear the cost of the bandwidth for unlimited transfers in that case
Traffic is pretty cheap outside the big clouds. For example Hetzner charges $1/TB on a 10Gbit connection
Their 1Gbit connections are unmetered.
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. AirDrop is for people who are physically nearby. This allows to send files between any computers anywhere. The other person must be a known contact but it doesn't have to be on the same local network like in AirDrop.
There’s a new AirDrop feature that also transfers over the internet: https://allthings.how/how-airdrop-over-internet-works-on-iph...
> To start AirDrop over the Internet, initiate the AirDrop as you normally would
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this is hardly the same thing?
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#85I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…
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Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#86I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…
1. - FTP could fail / doesn't resume the same way rsync, mutagen, or syncthing could
2. - nothing would by your criteria of an airgap, that's a strawman, this is just an alternative over the wire method (as is bluetooth file transfer)
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#87Hey! Blip co-founder here. We didn't expect to show up on HN, but really grateful to OP for sharing Blip. Here's a little bit more about it.
We've built Blip because it's still hard to send original quality photos, videos, and large files to your devices and to other people on the internet. We’re designers and engineers, so our goal has always been to keep the product super simple on the surface, but really fast and powerful underneath.
Blip works in a peer-to-peer way at the UI level: you pick the device or person, and Blip takes care of the delivery. Transfers go directly over WAN whenever possible, and fall back to relays when needed. The idea is to send in one click, skipping the usual dance of moving files through cloud drives and managing shared links.
Under the hood, Blip is optimized for large media and data transfers. It supports full-speed acceleration, resumable progress, and we're rolling out E2EE across all clients to ensure sensitive business data remains secure. Many creative pros and teams already use Blip in their daily media workflows.
We don’t monetize data because it doesn't align with the values of our creative and technical users. Instead, we run on a simple donation and subscription model that lets you support the product and use it without limits, quotas, and frustrations. Our goal is to make file transfer feel invisible.
Happy to answer any questions.
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#88I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…
Classic lore! :)
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#89"former dropbox engineers" doesn't mean a whole lot -- it's a large company where tens of thousands of people have worked over the years. It's not like this is by the founders or anything.
Ok, we've taken the former dropbox engineers out of the title now.
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#90Who else needs to share files bigger than 1 TB? Most cloud services, such as Google Drive or OneDrive, are more than sufficient for managing massive files. I don't see the appeal of this new service.
Google Drive throttles uploads over 5GB, and not everyone has a storage plan that could fit that.