Ferry
Send files straight to another device
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Details
- External ID
- 1274256
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ferry
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Task Management, Open Source, GitHub, Encryption
Description
Most file sharing tools upload your files to a server first, then cap the size or ask for an account. Ferry sends them directly from one device to the other. Open it on both, scan a code or type six digits, and send. Files are end-to-end encrypted and never stored, so there is no size limit. It runs in any browser on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. A dropped transfer picks up where it stopped, and on the same Wi-Fi it works with no internet. Free and open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- peer-to-peer file sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- peer-to-peer file transfer between devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and encrypted transfer flow are vibe-codeable, but reliable direct device-to-device transfer depends on NAT traversal and relay infrastructure that works across real networks.
What it would actually take: Build it on WebRTC or a custom P2P stack, with a lightweight signaling server for the six-digit pairing codes and TURN relays as fallback for restrictive networks. The hard parts are NAT traversal reliability across mobile carriers and firewalls, plus correct end-to-end encryption key exchange. This needs someone with networking and applied cryptography experience, plus relay bandwidth costs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 360 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #157 of 361 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- ShareNod · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- ShareFilesFree · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- File Transfer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- SharingCast — Secure Peer File Transfer · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WispFile · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- just f***ing send it · ph · 2026-06-19 · 155 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OnShare: share files & text instantly · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- GreySpace · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57