Nearby Drop
Two-way Quick Share for Mac and Android
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Two-way Quick Share between Mac and compatible Android, from a native menu-bar app. Includes Android USB MTP, Finder sharing, QR tools, and Windows Quick Share tested both ways with one PC in a Debug build. macOS 14+; free download.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Mac
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Partial The menu-bar UI and file transfer are buildable, but two-way Quick Share with Android and Windows requires interoperating with proprietary, lightly documented protocols. That is hard to vibe-code reliably.
What it would actually take: The core is a native macOS app (Swift) implementing Google's Quick Share/Nearby Connections protocol over Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi Direct/mDNS, and encryption handshakes, reverse-engineered from the Android and Windows implementations. It also needs MTP handling for USB. This takes protocol reverse-engineering skill and extensive device testing across Android versions.
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Attention rank: #147 of 287 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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