LAN-Share
A simple LAN-based file sharing tool for transferring files between devices on the same local network.
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Details
- External ID
- 1407106240
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- LAN-Share
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33058984910836764
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- networking, privacy, and security utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lan-based file sharing tool for local network transfers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local area network file sharing tool can easily be built with Node.js, Go, or Python using mDNS/Bonjour for peer discovery and standard HTTP/WebSockets for file transfers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 606 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #399 of 607 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- snapdrop · github · 2026-09-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Altersend · hn · 2026-06-05 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- LAN-Chat · github · 2026-09-30 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- plexo · github · 2026-09-15 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup · hn · 2026-09-17 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- filet · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Cross-agent messaging and shared memory over the local filesystem · hn · 2026-05-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- RocketShare · hn · 2026-02-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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