{"slug": "wormhole", "name": "Wormhole", "category": "files", "category_name": "Files, sync and backup", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.847, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-20", "latest": "2026-04-28", "why": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "wormhole.app", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://wormhole.app/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Wormhole"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 766906592, "item_id": 47931662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931662", "by": "udugadoqehale", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed.", "excerpt": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed. If you're sharing with the same people regularly, just use Telegram (no compression, 2GB limit) or a shared Google Drive folder.", "context": "", "use_case": "file sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?"}, {"id": 766506560, "item_id": 47906660, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906660", "by": "DarknessEoL", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use wormhole.app lately.", "excerpt": "I use wormhole.app lately. Used to use gofile.io", "context": "", "use_case": "file sharing", "switched_from": "Gofile", "story": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["file sharing"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 763533091, "item_id": 47720818, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720818", "by": "InfraScaler", "date": "2026-04-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I did the same in 2016 (pre-tailscale?)", "excerpt": "You are rebuilding tailscale but requiring a centralised hub. I did the same in 2016 (pre-tailscale?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013451/https://wormhole.network/ I am not sure WireGuard existed at the time, and I used SoftEther and based it all on doing outbound tunnels to TCP/443* to avoid firewall blocks in corporate networks. You could explore full P2P by leveraging UDP hole punching: https://cloudnetwork", "context": "", "use_case": "tunneling to machines behind firewalls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906587", "title": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208", "title": "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700460", "title": "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854", "title": "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 766985008, "item_id": 47936563, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936563", "by": "cachius", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Also https://wormhole.app/, but feross is busy", "excerpt": "Also https://wormhole.app/, but feross is busy witch Socket and the myriad of NPM supply chain attacks nowadays", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"}, {"id": 766906592, "item_id": 47931662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931662", "by": "udugadoqehale", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed.", "excerpt": "Check Wormhole or WeTransfer; you drag, get a link, send it. No account needed. If you're sharing with the same people regularly, just use Telegram (no compression, 2GB limit) or a shared Google Drive folder.", "context": "", "use_case": "file sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?"}, {"id": 766506560, "item_id": 47906660, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906660", "by": "DarknessEoL", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use wormhole.app lately.", "excerpt": "I use wormhole.app lately. Used to use gofile.io", "context": "", "use_case": "file sharing", "switched_from": "Gofile", "story": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?"}, {"id": 735939744, "item_id": 45996234, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996234", "by": "RenThraysk", "date": "2025-11-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Yep https://webwormhole.com/ Just needs a WebRTC capable browser.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"}]}