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Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser

Details

External ID
48629220
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser
Website domain
socket2.me
Launched
June 22, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
14
Upvotes percentile
0.6885245901639344
Tags
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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.

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