Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to 8fs.io
Hey All. I recently built 8fs.io, a simple file-sharing tool. No sign-ups, no tracking—just upload a file and share the link. I’d love to get some feedback on usability, speed, and any features you think would make it better. Also, do you see any potential use cases I might have overlooked? Looking forward to your thoughts!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Peony 0.5▲431Hey HN, founder of Peony here. Most founders use DocSend to share investment or sales docs and have to pay $65 to $300 a month to get the security and analytics features. It pains me to see startups getting ripped off when the availability of technologies such as Clickhouse makes real time analytics almost a trivial feature to implement in 2024. We think it's time to end the carnage and democratize the technology. We set ourselves a high bar: we don't want to build another DocSend - we want it to be a far more superior product and also 10x cheaper. After a couple of months of work, I'm proud…
2024 · peony.ink · its alternatives →
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DROP▲422I'm the founder of DROP. I've been plugging away at this project for over six months now. We managed to secure funding, which was a huge relief. You see, I had a previous startup called cowtransfer.com. It was a file transfer gig, kind of like WeTransfer. I had a good run with it, but in 2021, I decided to sell it and move on. Now, jumping back into the digital assets arena was like starting from scratch. I kept asking myself, what does the AI creative industry really hunger for? How can AI swoop in and make their creative content production process a breeze? I mean, it's like trying to…
2025 · drop.space · its alternatives →
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Sharing files with file.io is convenient, anonymous and secure. Just upload files and share the links via email, SMS, Slack, Discord, etc. Easy-to-use REST API.
2015 · file.io · its alternatives →
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Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network
2021 · sedo.com · its alternatives →
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Hirosend▲90I built Hirosend because I needed a fast and secure way to send files to clients without asking them to create accounts or navigate permission screens. Dropbox/Drive were too heavy for one-off transfers, WeTransfer felt clunky for quick sends, and I really missed the simplicity Firefox Send had before it shut down. Hirosend lets you upload a file, set expiration, add an optional password, or generate a one-time magic link. Recipients just click and download — no signup required on their side. Files are encrypted before being stored and automatically deleted after expiration. There are…
Nov 2025 · hirosend.com · its alternatives →
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A free and simple way to send large files — instantly
2019 · kwiqflick.com · its alternatives →
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IPFS▲84Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web
2015 · about.ipfs.io · its alternatives →
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I made a simple site that allows you to upload files. It requires no sign up and 100% free. The biggest advantage is that it returns you the direct URL to your file. So you can use it to store images for MD-based forum posts. Or put in your site's . I use the Cloudflare R2 storage which offers zero egress fees. So I pay $0 of transfer costs. I added a simple anti-nsfw files check and a simple anti-malware check. Please do not try to break it. Thanks! (>‿◠)
2024 · uploadfile.click · its alternatives →
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Back in March we first launched Scarf Gateway with support for Docker/OCI containers.
2021 · about.scarf.sh · its alternatives →
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Send large files up to 3GB for free. No signup required. Fast, simple, secure file sharing with 7-day storage. The easiest way to share files online.
2020 · sendfiles.online · its alternatives →
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Facebook's Katran looked too scary (and I don't do C++), so I thought I would investigate using XDP/eBPF to redirect packets at high speed and Go to do the control plane work of health-checking backed servers and managing configuration. With luck the resulting binary should be easy to deploy by non-developers. It's still not mature, but seems to work. Code was written in a very exploratory manner, and I'm not a developer so it is quite shocking at the moment, but I aim to improve it. It is intended to be horizontally scalable with ECMP and has been tested on service providing…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built SendFast (https://sendfast.app) because I was tired of clunky urls, and not knowing when my files are viewed. Google Drive links are long and annoying, WeTransfer has ads and expirations, and most alternatives don’t tell you if someone actually opened your file. With SendFast: - You upload and share files up to 32GB - Get notifications when someone views or downloads your file (no more “Did you get my email?”) - Recipients don’t need an account & can preview files (images/videos/pdf) instantly without ads - Links won’t expire as long as you need them [also…
2025 · sendfast.app · its alternatives →
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Scalable high-performance shared filesystem for S3-compatible object stores and Azure Blob Storage. Faster than Amazon EFS, SoftNAS and GlusterFS. For Linux, EC2, MacOS, as well as SMB and NFS exports. Great for machine learning, cluster computation, simulation, backup and DR, Kubernetes and web ser
2015 · objectivefs.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re Dan and Vaughan, based in Cambridge, UK. We recently launched cunoFS, a filesystem for fast, POSIX object storage access. Yes, we’ve heard that “Object Storage is just not suitable for POSIX workloads” or that “workloads should be rewritten to natively support S3”. But what if it could be? And often much faster than S3-native apps? We’ve worked hard to make this possible, without the shortcomings of other approaches. Summary here: - Run (unmodified) applications with S3/AZ/GCP or “S3 compatible” storage, for example: ls s3:// az://…
2024 · cuno.io · its alternatives →
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After a lot of work, I'm proud to show HN my first real "startup idea". HN has been a real inspiration to me. Attach.io allows users to upload files up to 2GB (soon to be 8GB) and share them with others. Attach.io offers the regular file for download, and also if possible, an alternative preview version, so users can view files on their iPad for example. PSD files get converted to PNG AVI, WMV etc... to MP4 EPS/AI to PDF DOC(X), PPT(X) etc... to PDF This is a sneak preview, and is not 100% complete. Things I still have on my ToDo list: Allow users to email link to others, currently they have…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Ufile.io▲4The simplest way to send large files, no signup required.
2021 · ufile.io · its alternatives →
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Smmall Cloud▲18Free Open Graph checker and validator. Test how your links look on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Slack. Check og:title, og:image, og:description instantly with our OG tag tester.
2024 · smmall.cloud · its alternatives →
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It's free servers monitoring and centralized cloud management app. We're hoping to lunch anytime soon. What do you think? Thanks.
2013 · cloudiff.com · its alternatives →
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Securely share files with anyone. Protect the file from the servers on which it is hosted.
2015 · filesender.io · its alternatives →
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