Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup
Details
- External ID
- 49746346
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup
- Website domain
- snapdrop.me
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 109
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9282296650717703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local peer-to-peer file sharing for web browsers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Snapdrop is a standard WebRTC peer-to-peer file sharing application with a lightweight WebSocket signaling server.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: pairdrop.net, LocalSend, croc, Bitwarden Send, Tether
Concerns raised: Intrusive ads on mobile covering devices, Unclear why microphone access is required, Past reliability and uptime issues, Suspicious acquisition or association with LimeWire, Monetization and long-term sustainability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- snapdrop · github · 2026-09-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Altersend · hn · 2026-06-05 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- omdrop-plugin · github · 2026-09-15 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- RocketShare · hn · 2026-02-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- NoWireTransfer · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- UltraLocked · hn · 2025-11-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ShareNod · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ShareFilesFree · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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