LanSender
Cross-platform file sharing with chat, no cloud relay.
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LanSender combines local chat with cross-platform file sharing for Windows, Mac, Android, and ARM Linux. Find devices automatically and send messages, photos, files, and whole folders over encrypted connections — no account or cloud upload.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: peer-to-peer file sharing tools · 99 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -11% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Messaging
- Customer Communication
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Could you build this?
Partial Chat and file transfer over LAN with device discovery is buildable, but native clients for Windows, macOS, Android, and ARM Linux plus a correct end-to-end encryption design is substantial work beyond simple vibe coding.
What it would actually take: Expect a shared protocol core (device discovery via mDNS or UDP broadcast, an authenticated key exchange such as Noise or TLS with pinned keys, and chunked resumable transfers) with thin native shells per platform. The hard parts are getting the crypto and NAT/firewall edge cases right and maintaining four platform clients, which calls for someone experienced with networking and security review.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 250 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 251 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
- TreeTalk Node · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- softros-lan-messenger · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Nearsend · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Beam-It · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Crossposter · ph · 2026-09-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- XCopy · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cross Sync · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PastePad — Phone ↔ PC · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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