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Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing
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This is a project that spun from my frustrations of using LocalSend and DashBeam to transfer stuff between devices, and with the extra goal of being fast, trying out the Slint framework and, most importantly, establishing a communication channel with trusted external people that can be left always on.
HN · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 146 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: peer-to-peer file sharing tools · 91 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A persistent file-transfer app can be assembled from an existing peer-to-peer networking library (Iroh) and a Rust GUI toolkit, with the networking hard parts largely abstracted away.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Tailscale, Syncthing, sendme, NetBird, Netmaker
Concerns raised: Signaling and NAT punching relies on central server, P2P unreliable in browsers without TURN/relay, TURN relays expose traffic metadata
Feature requests: Expand readme for Tailscale use cases, Merge with my-beloved-rubble
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 47 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 48 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- Gopher · hn · 2026-09-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- React-mediadrop · hn · 2026-08-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- FluxSharing · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- slinky · github · 2026-10-17 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Altersend · hn · 2026-06-05 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- portkey-gateway · github · 2026-10-04 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Finite · hn · 2026-01-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- LAN-Share · github · 2026-10-06 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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