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Ask HN: How to easily transfer files between devices

I own one linux and one mac computer, and also one iphone. I found transferring files between them is not convenient.

Airdrop is nice, but is not available for the linux machine. I have been using scp between the mac and the linux.

And if I need to transfer something to my phone, I will have to scp to my mac first, then airdrop.

webrtc based anonymous services like

https://file.pizza/

https://www.sharedrop.io/

are not ideal either. mainly they expect people to type very long urls or share urls with a message app. But in many cases, I need to share files with random people, I don't know how to exchange the long urls.

I want to make something better to solve this problem (as a side project). I have been having the itch for doing it for long. But every time I consult my friends about this idea, they don't seem to feel the pain that much.

Is this worth my time solving? Or I just missed some already existed solutions?

24 points billconan 7 years ago 41 comments

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