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transfer.sh
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dutchcoders / transfer.sh

transfer.sh

Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.

15Distinct people
17Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
15.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.

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Where it is used

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transfer.sh is easily one of the best file-sharing website I've used. when I recommend it to others, they find it _counter-intuitive_ to use, maybe because of them not being…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-20 07:10:07 UTC to 2025-09-12 21:21:58 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Since this is conspicuously lacking among other threads here, allow me to thank the creators and maintainers for a service invaluable to those of us who are grateful for the ability to share files without installing new software, and who mightn't need e2e protection for it (though as the examples show, this is possible, again without installing additional software). Thank you! :) https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/#creators
In Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
There are already transfer.sh [1] and other established projects (which I can’t recall right now) that serve this purpose. With more fine-grained control too. A golang compiled executable is also arguably more lightweight than a php app, whether the feature set/code is simpler or not. [1] https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/ Edit: Since more than one person has replied with non-self-hosted solutions, I should note that transfer.sh can be self-hosted, although you can also use the website itself.
In Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)
app4soft·Oct 29, 2018Submission

Tell HN: Transfer.sh will shut down on November 30

Developer of Transfer.sh, file sharing service with command line interface, claimed that site (as service) will shutdown 30th of November 2018: > transfer.sh will shutdown 30th of November 2018 > After running transfer.sh for 4 years, it has to come to an end. I started this project, because I needed something quick and simple to share files between from the command line. Now it has grown out of control, with millions of files being shared each month, and no longer sustainable and affordable to keep it running for free. From day one the code has been opensource, of which you can run your own instance. Special thanks to Andrea Spacca for maintaining the opensource version, the amazing community for all efforts, the patrons for all support and to Gopher for being you. > So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. > Remco Verhoef. This message now
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placed on homepage[0,1,2] and all other subpages. R.I.P. $ curl --upload-file ./hello.txt https://transfer.sh/hello.txt P.S.: Source code hosted on GitHub.[3] [0] http://i.imgur.com/13GEUoA.png [1] https://transfer.sh [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20181027144208/https://transfer.sh/ [3] https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh
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thewisenerd·Nov 15, 2016Recommendation phrase
transfer.sh is easily one of the best file-sharing website I've used. when I recommend it to others, they find it _counter-intuitive_ to use, maybe because of them not being comfortable with the command line. now it has a drag/drop interface, so, that's _good_ (i guess). one "issue" that I do have with it, is that downloads aren't resumable/pause-able or you can't see actual download progress. Is this a limitation or was it built that way ? thanks for making such awesome things :) (for those reading, transfer.sh is fully open sourced here: https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh )
In Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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