Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 48629220
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser
- Website domain
- socket2.me
- Launched
- June 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6885245901639344
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
The service lets you share an entire folder - not just a single file - with anyone on the Internet in a single click.Under the hood, GET responses are hydrated with file fragments streamed over a duplex WebSocket connection. Close the browser tab, and the server disappears. Files can also be password-protected.I built it because I needed a way to share a static website with a client without first uploading the work to a cloud service.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- static file server running in browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The browser File System Access API paired with WebSockets or WebRTC data channels makes streaming static directory contents to connecting clients entirely vibe-codeable.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Create a public repository/open source version, Rewrite frontend in vanilla JavaScript for OSS
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 209 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 210 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 230 days after the earliest competitor.
- SharingCast — Secure Peer File Transfer · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- just f***ing send it · ph · 2026-06-19 · 155 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- File Transfer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ShareFilesFree · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ShareNod · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WispFile · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Capsule · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Classified · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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