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DropLink
Send huge files device-to-device. No cloud, no account
DropLink moves files of any size straight from one device to another — no cloud upload, no size cap, no account. 50+ MB/s on your local network, encrypted browser links for remote delivery. Free on Mac, Windows and iPhone.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Marco, an indie dev from Italy.
DropLink exists because of my own desk: a Mac, a Windows PC and an iPhone, all a meter apart, and the standard way to move a big file between them was to upload it to someone's server and download it back. I did that for years without questioning it. Then WeTransfer had its AI-training terms episode last year, and being annoyed suddenly felt justified. Why does a file going one meter need a middleman at all?
So DropLink skips the middleman. Devices on the same network find each other over mDNS and transfer peer-to-peer over QUIC. On normal Wi-Fi I see 50+ MB/s, more on Ethernet. Across the internet, app-to-app transfers go direct P2P with NAT traversal, and when a corporate firewall kills the direct path, an encrypted relay forwards packets it can't read. Browser links work differently: those downloads always stream through our relay, encrypted in transit and never stored. Nothing sits on a server either way, and there's no size cap: a 300 GB folder of video dailies is the same drag and drop as a PDF. The person receiving doesn't need the app or an account, they just open a link in the browser.
Under the hood it's a Rust core. TLS 1.3 with TOFU fingerprints on the local network, Noise protocol for remote transfers, BLAKE3 checking every chunk as it streams. Native apps for macOS, Windows and iOS. Android is in testing (happy to add beta testers, ask below). All of it free.
Two limitations you'd find anyway, so I'll say them first: your machine has to stay online while a transfer runs, that's the price of there being no cloud copy. And remote speed is whatever the slower of the two connections allows.
I'd love brutal feedback, especially from photographers and video editors who ship big files for a living. What would make you switch?
About DropLink on Product Hunt
“Send huge files device-to-device. No cloud, no account”
DropLink was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #114 on the daily leaderboard. DropLink moves files of any size straight from one device to another — no cloud upload, no size cap, no account. 50+ MB/s on your local network, encrypted browser links for remote delivery. Free on Mac, Windows and iPhone.
On the analytics side, DropLink competes within Mac, Productivity and Privacy — topics that collectively have 770.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DropLink performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DropLink?
DropLink was hunted by Marco Abbattista. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Marco Abbattista