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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.

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