ForbiddenItlwm
Because AirDrop was never supposed to work on Intel Wi-Fi.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 161 upvotes (top 23%) · 0 views
Niche: hardware device drivers and utility software · 178 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- airdrop
- awdl
- hackintosh
- intel-wifi
- macos-tahoe
- opencore
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Could you build this?
No It is a macOS kernel extension that makes an Intel Wi-Fi chipset support AirDrop, which requires kernel-level driver development and reverse engineering of Apple's AWDL protocol.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 440 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 441 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- omdrop-owl · github · 2026-10-08 · 2401 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- AirCard-Injector · github · 2026-09-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- itlwm · github · 2026-10-02 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- hop · github · 2026-10-27 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device · hn · 2026-09-15 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- omdrop-plugin · github · 2026-09-15 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- SignalCend · hn · 2026-02-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OPAirDrop · github · 2026-10-21 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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