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Show HN: Share text and links between all your devices

by lavamantis on 4/1/15, 3:47 PM with 13 comments

  • by toledi on 4/1/15, 4:03 PM

    Solves a need, but Apple (if you use both a Mac and iOS) and Pushbullet can do similar functionality way better. Still, I'm glad people are building these sorts of things.

  • by mrspeaker on 4/1/15, 4:27 PM

    Sounds like a cool idea, but the site is not loading for me (stuck on loading spinner, no errors in console) - in Firefox/Mac.

    Syncing content is a pain - the most convenient way I have of sharing data between my iphone and my mac is taking a photo of the screen! It takes 1 second and I don't have to open anything on my desktop.

    Obviously that's a hack, so anything to make this process easier sounds good to me!

  • by shanecleveland on 4/1/15, 4:54 PM

    Cool idea for a simple problem that I commonly encounter myself. I'd try it if I had a Facebook account. Other commenters mention existing apps with this functionality built in, but I like seeing these stripped-down solutions if you don't have, want or need the other apps. Which is sort of why the Facebook requirement is disappointing.

  • by kinduff on 4/1/15, 6:51 PM

    > Facebook login makes security quick and easy, and no Facebook permissions are asked for.

    Please don't. There are other ways to archive this, simple username and password using passport middleware for example. Forcing to connect to facebook just for a security manner seems lazy.

    Great app and great idea. Love how simple it is.

  • by zackify on 4/1/15, 9:33 PM

    I made something similar a year ago. You just have to be on the same local network. https://zach-share.herokuapp.com/

  • by davejazz on 4/1/15, 4:44 PM

    Cool. I use Google Keep for this.

  • by purans on 4/1/15, 7:51 PM

    Always wanted this. Wanted to build myself but never happened. Good job!