BRbrudgers·Mar 5, 2016
In Show HN: file.pizza - WebRTC p2p file sharing webappkern
filepizza
TypeScript2015–2025
kern / filepizza
filepizza
:pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser
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22Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
10.3KGitHub stars
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What it is
:pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser
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Where it is used
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- magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- robinlinus/snapdrop · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- schollz/croc · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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HN mentions by year22 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-05-15 15:56:42 UTC to 2025-07-22 19:55:15 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesWebTorrent actually implements the bittorrent protocol, and can be used as a nodejs bittorent client. It extends the bittorent protocol to do p2p sharing inside the browser (but you only can connect to other people using the webtorrent nodejs app or in-browser app, and not all the bittorent network)
FilePizza and Bitfly are much simpler implementations, doing 1-to-1 file transfers in the browser using the basic WebRTC Datachannel API.
Looks like FilePizza is now using WebTorrent too now, as it's mentionned in their FAQ:
"Where are my files sent? Your files never touch our server. Instead, they are sent directly from the uploader's browser to the downloader's browser using WebTorrent and WebRTC. This requires that the uploader leave their browser window open until the transfer is complete."
https://github.com/kern/filepizza
In Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTCSimilar project: FilePizza – https://file.pizza/
github: https://github.com/kern/filepizza
show hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9535332
In Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC