Altersend
File sharing without cloud
Details
- External ID
- 48408647
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Altersend
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 5, 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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- decentralized file sharing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A serverless or peer-to-peer file sharing app can be readily built using WebRTC data channels, standard WebSockets for signaling, and off-the-shelf P2P libraries.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Security vulnerability risk with firewall bypass and remote listening socket, Large binary size (476.7MB Windows), Lack of documentation on how Hyperdrive works, Unclear how NAT traversal is handled
Feature requests: Pause and resume transfer capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 667 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #202 of 668 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- RocketShare · hn · 2026-02-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- snapdrop · github · 2026-09-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- filet · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup · hn · 2026-09-17 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- UltraLocked · hn · 2025-11-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- s2.dev: Streams as a cloud storage primitive · yc · 2025-11-08 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- pi-jev · github · 2026-09-18 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.