Show HN: PeerYeet – P2P file transfer or fail

Show HN: PeerYeet – P2P file transfer or fail(peeryeet.com)

2 points by dicroce 14 days ago | 2 comments

I wanted a p2p file transfer site that didn't require you to create an account or login, didn't require you to upload your files and either established a webrtc p2p connection or just failed (no TURN relay). You're data never hits the peeryeet server.

For the hackernews audience I'll mention my other requirements: a single binary, written in C, super efficient so I can run the whole service on a very minimal VM.

Hopefully I can finally stop sharing files with myself via gmail now. :)

coldstartops 5 days ago |

Most of the home consumer WiFi Routers block inbound connections with no way to unblock them, thus PeerYeet cannot establish a connection. One workaround is to use OpenWRT https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_c7 on the router and allow direct connections, but it is not so easy to do.

For example I cannot use PeerYeet on any of my devices, even if I am on the same wifi. So they find the senders, but it is always no direct path, nothing was sent.

Unfortunately you need to relay the traffic.

dicroce 3 days ago | |

So, i'm still perfecting my stats collection but so far it looks like 74% of the traffic that tries to send a file is able to. My goal at the beginning of the project was 70%... so I'm still happy by this.