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24 alternatives to An SSH based utility to transfer pipes across machines – beam
Hey HN, At work, I was annoyed about having to download logs by writing them out to files and transferring them over to my local over HTTP (admittedly, this is because of a rather novel architectural situation). So, I built a tool in Go that lets you pipe contents into an SSH server for sending and reading them out on another connection. You can also use this tool to transfer files. Just cat the file on the sender end and redirect the output of the receiver end to a file. Please note that the transfer rate is heavily dependent on your connection and proximity to the public ssh.beam.camp…
Beam is an SSH-based utility written in Go that enables transferring piped data and files between machines without creating intermediate files. Users pipe content into an SSH server on one connection and read it out on… 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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Blockchain-based secure & private file sharing for everyone
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Secure & private cloud storage & file sharing
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ts-ssh solves a specific problem: accessing machines on your Tailnet from environments where you can't install the full Tailscale daemon (like CI/CD runners or restricted systems). It uses Tailscale's tsnet library to establish userspace connectivity, then provides a standard SSH experience. Works with existing workflows since it supports normal SSH features like ProxyCommand, key auth, and terminal handling. Some features that proved useful: • Parallel command execution across multiple hosts • Built-in tmux session management for multi-host work • SCP-style file transfers • Works on…
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file transfer made easy
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BeamUp▲140Explore BeamUp file uploads with no relay servers and instant S3 delivery. Available in beta
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Hi HN. I built Payload to make file transfers easy for less-technical users who need large/fast transfers, so I have focused on auto-discovery, drag-and-drop, visually distinct device icons. It's using Tauri (an "Electron alternative" built on Rust) which keeps my binaries small and bundles to .msi, .dmg, .deb and .appimage. No CLI, iOS or Android support (yet). The network stack is a separate binary written in Go. It uses mDNS for local network discovery and TLS over TCP or Quic, with a public Ed25519 keypair for each device. The protocol is ad-hoc and symmetrical control stream using…
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Get and manipulate data with a visual programming interface.
2017 · pipes.digital · its alternatives →
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2016 · station307.com · its alternatives →
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Bring your dotfiles to remote machine via SSH. Contribute to FOBshippingpoint/shittp development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blober.io▲104Safely transfer files between AWS S3, Google Drive, Azure Blob, GoPro Cloud, Backblaze B2, Dropbox and more. Lifetime license, no subscription fees. Desktop app for Mac, Windows & Linux.
Jan 2026 · blober.io · its alternatives →
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BLAZE Transfer▲231Send big files securely with BLAZE quantum-safe encryption
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Blockchain-based file transfer. Designed for everyday use.
2019 · its alternatives →
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Beam▲132The easiest wallet ever, no app, no signup — it just works
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Stream data over http using curl. Contribute to jpschroeder/pipe-to-me development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Greetings! We are excited to announce pipe: our managed pubsub service over ssh. We are at a point where we would love to get feedback on the service to see if it resonates with the HN crowd. All you need to use `pipe` is a pico account which can be created using ssh: `ssh pico.sh` We've been using it internally for a few weeks now and keep coming up with new use cases. For example, we are using `pipe` to create a log drain for all of our services and even a way to share logs with users. You can read more about it on our blog post: https://blog.pico.sh/pubsub
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A highly configurable Google Cloud Dataflow pipeline that writes data into Google Big Query table from Pub/Sub - bomboradata/pubsub-to-bigquery
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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📦 Command line peer-to-peer data transfer tool based on libp2p. - dennis-tra/pcp
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Beam▲101Encrypted router protecting your data, location and devices
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