szimek

6 ms·

1.
by szimek 6y ago
Hi! ShareDrop author here. Thanks for the suggestion - I've updated it in the repo description and in README file.
2.
by szimek 6y ago
Hi! ShareDrop author here. It doesn't use any TURN servers and that's why it doesn't work if one is required.
3.
by szimek 7y ago
ShareDrop author here. It's really great that people are still using it, after almost 6 years since the release! It was first announced here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7468328 . Fun fact: on the same da
4.
by szimek 10y ago
Does everything really work? I've got a car with Android Auto, but I need to pay a small fee to actually enable it (because why not :/) and I'm not sure if it makes sense to pay for it if it's not officially available in
5.
by szimek 10y ago
Recently I got annoyed how hard it is to use shrinkwrap in npm and started working on a npm wrapper that would make npm as easy to work with as Ruby Bundler by copying its workflow as closely as possible ( https://github.com/
6.
by szimek 10y ago
I'm using idb.filesystem.js in https://www.sharedrop.io , so that only very small part of the transferred file is stored in memory, but then without asking users for permission (i.e. using non-persistent storage) you "o
7.
by szimek 10y ago
In the sign-up form they state that "Note that each audio request is limited to 2 minutes in length." Does anyone know what "audio request" is? Does it mean that it's limited to 2 minutes when doing real-time recogn
8.
by szimek 12y ago
I've been using it for almost a year on sharedrop.io (p2p file transfer app) to distinguish peers in the same local network. The code I'm using for finding local IP comes from http://net.ipcalf.com . The app even allows
9.
Show HN: 1-to-1 video calls with real-time translations (Chrome only)(webrtc-translate.herokuapp.com)
11 points by szimek 12y ago|0 comments
10.
by szimek 12y ago
Originally, we used socket.io for presence management and PeerJS library ( http://peerjs.com ), which uses its own websocket server, for WebRTC signaling. We had 2 websocket servers and we really wanted to avoid hosting them ourse
11.
by szimek 12y ago
Yeah, it probably could. I think that https://www.sharefest.me/ has faster transfer speeds, especially that it allows you to download the same file from more than one peer.
12.
by szimek 12y ago
I think I've figured out why it asked for Flash. I forgot to remove socket.io related files that we were using before switching to Firebase.
13.
by szimek 12y ago
Yes it is :)
14.
by szimek 12y ago
It seems so. I was a bit surprised myself, but this data is taken from the info that browsers send to each other to determine the best path for P2P connection. The actual code for determining local IP is taken from http://net.ipc
15.
by szimek 12y ago
I think it worked since 32. The current stable Chrome version is 33.
16.
by szimek 12y ago
Sure. WebRTC allows you to send any data, audio and video directly between peers. Though to be honest there are much easier ways to create text chat.
17.
by szimek 12y ago
Pretty cool. It does upload the files to S3 though, right? ShareDrop in theory should be much faster (especially on local network) and more secure, as it sends files directly between devices without any server in the middle.
18.
by szimek 12y ago
Hopefully, we'll add sending files between networks pretty soon as well. However, it's already possible with similar WebRTC based services like https://www.sharefest.me/ or https://rtccopy.com/ .
19.
by szimek 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by "mobile" :) It works between Chrome on Android and desktop. Unfortunately, Safari (neither desktop nor mobile) doesn't support WebRTC.
20.
by szimek 12y ago
No idea why it asked for Flash. At this moment the app works only in Chrome and Opera, because Firefox doesn't support HTML5 FileSystem API. There's a polyfill for that, but we had some issues with it, so we've decided to rel
21.
by szimek 12y ago
Sure, we mention it even in the README ( https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop/blob/master/README.md ). There's probably a workaround if you have a phone with internet access - you could create a local
22.
Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser(sharedrop.io)
165 points by szimek 12y ago|68 comments
23.
by szimek 13y ago
:) Well, it's open source, so you can check what it does and even run it locally without internet connection if you really want. Good idea though, I'll have to add form for credit card details :)
24.
by szimek 13y ago
Brush, fur and neighbor points look really cool. Using Bézier curves, but with variable width, can give nice "handwritten" feel to it - http://szimek.github.io/signature_pad (works best on touch devices).
25.
by szimek 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. Really cool idea with the publicly available server - I assumed that some HTML slide frameworks might have e.g. SocketIO plugins, but didn't expect them to have an official server as well.
26.
Sync your HTML slides in real-time with your audience using Firebase(cowbell-labs.com)
7 points by szimek 13y ago|2 comments