OpenNearby
Beam files across the nearby. Fast. Secure. Reliable.
Details
- External ID
- 1247473
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenNearby
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Home, Open Source, GitHub, Wi-Fi
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
OpenNearby shares files between devices on the same WiFi/LAN no cloud upload, no account, no signaling server. Any device opens a browser and gets the same UI, with nothing to install for guests. Free and open source.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- file sharing for nearby devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes OpenNearby hosts a lightweight local HTTP server with mDNS/multicast DNS discovery, allowing local network devices to upload and download files directly via a web browser.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- WispFile · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ShareFilesFree · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ShareNod · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-06-22 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HushOS Drive · ph · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- TreeTalk Node · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ButterShare · ph · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SharingCast — Secure Peer File Transfer · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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