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LANDrop
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LANDrop / LANDrop

LANDrop

Drop any files to any devices on your LAN.

7Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Drop any files to any devices on your LAN.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-06-12 07:34:22 UTC to 2025-09-17 11:38:33 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 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): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 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
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It’s open source, else I wouldn’t recommended it https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop I used it along with another called Localsend, but the later one gave me a bit of headache and crashed while transferring some large files last time I used it, but still great as an alternative too, and it’s open source as well. Edit: Actually, you are correct, it seems they did close it! Try localsend instead.
In Apple Photos app corrupts images
Related projects: - FlyingCarpet: direct transfer over local adhoc WIFI: https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet - LANDrop: Drop any files to any devices on your LAN: https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop - Snapdrop: In-browser file transfer similar to Airdrop: https://snapdrop.net/ - Magic Wormhole: simple file transfer from computer-to-computer over the net: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole - Croc: similar to magic wormhole: https://github.com/schollz/croc - Wormhole: user-friendly in-browser based e2e encrypted file transfer: https://wormhole.app/
In Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
Glancing at your crypto implementation[1], it seems to contain newbie mistakes - eg no public key crypto involved in your public keys, usage of low level raw crypto algorithm primitives from libsodium without session, replay etc related security concerns, no signs of design requiremnts re what security guarantees it's trying to provide, no PK key management, etc. You're also hand rolling wire protocol code in C++, manipulating raw bytes and lengths, which is a receipe for memory safety vulnerabilities. Use an pre vetted implementation of a good security protocol for this, or if this is a hobby project, spend some time reading up on crypto protocol design. [1] https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop/blob/master/LANDrop/crypt...
In Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

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