P2P file sharing?

[01e9]

If you started actively adding features, maybe it's worth adding peer-to-peer file sharing?

Usage:

1. me: choose a file and obtain a link (no file upload on server)
2. other: open the link and click Download
3. my browser -> (send file) -> other's browser (both must keep browser open)

This is useful for big files, like a 6Gb zip or video.

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There are services like this but they are glitchy:

• sending not starting from first try
• sending doesn't finish (and no way to refresh and continue progress)

Maybe now with AI the code can be generated to handle edge cases and be more stable, than those (old) services.

Exaples:

• https://www.justbeamit.com
• https://sharedrop.io/ this was initially pure P2P but recently it was integrated with some LimeWire sh*t and I think the file is actually uploaded on server

[rvmoldova]

@01e9 Yeah, WebRTC / WebTorrent approach seems doable since there are essentially no infrastructure costs here. Let me think about the concept and see if the WebTorrent approach is stable enough. Thanks for the idea!

[HassanNadeem1122]

This is close to exactly what I built — meshare. npx meshare ./bigfile.zip gives you a link; the other person opens it, downloads browser-to-browser over WebRTC (no upload to a server), and their browser becomes a seeder too — so it doesn't just die if you close the tab, it can keep going through whoever else has it.

On the glitchiness you mentioned: it does automatic TURN relay fallback when a direct connection can't form (common cause of "never starts"), and every chunk is byte-verified so a bad transfer fails loudly instead of silently corrupting. Handles multi-GB files by streaming to disk instead of loading into memory.

Might save you building this from scratch — happy to answer questions if you try it.