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by AnonC 378 days ago
I’m always interested in such solutions.

How do we know that it’s end-to-end encrypted and that it’s peer-to-peer (without examine the network traffic)? The source doesn’t seem to be available (I presume this is not open source) and there doesn’t seem to be a self hosting option. This brings me to my next question: what is the business model here?

Your page says “Share text and images instantly and securely across all your devices”, but I don’t see a way to send images. Is that on the roadmap or is the inclusion of images in this description a mistake?

Transferring data across devices on different platforms (like photos from an event, for example) is not easy if one wants to avoid messaging apps. Firefox Send and similar services hosted by generous people for others to use have different limits to manage costs and handle abuse. If this service offers transferring images and videos and the concerns about encryption and privacy are addressed, it could be very useful.

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Thank you for your feedback! I do indeed have file transfer in the roadmap and was planning to launch with it(thus the leftover text, thank you for noticing), but file sharing over 100 Kb is still buggy, so it was disabled until better times. It's is buggy because no data goes through my server, it's all P2P using WebRTC(which e2e encrypted). As for open sourcing it - I will consider it as I do not plan to charge for this tool.