Sometimes you need to quickly copy some text/text file from your phone to your PC or vice-versa. I found myself doing this a lot as I had to share some things with my friends or while working. When I had to deal with files, I would quickly spin up a python server using the command python3 -m http.server, get the IP address of my PC, and connect to it via my phone before downloading the file.
Not only was this process tedious, but it was also repetitive as I sometimes I will have to turn on my phone's hotspot and go through the same process of locating my IP.
I do not own a USB key (we're in the 21st-century imao) so sometimes when I had to do some assignment in the computer laboratory at school, I will have to copy it on paper. I did not want to deal with creating an account and signing up everywhere.
To solve my issue, I built Buffered.link. It is a tool that allows you to easily and quickly share text between two or more devices that have access to the internet.
Today I launched a new version with more features.
The app is entirely open source and free to use.
Full article : https://josiasaurel.hashnode.dev/introducing-bufferedlink
Live App : https://buffered.link/
Source Code : https://github.com/JosiasAurel/buffer
Product Hunt : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/buffered-link-2
Hey, I just tried it. Looks great. Is there an end-to-end encryption possibility to share secrets?
Not at the moment...
For now the only way is to share the link to your public buffer which will allow anyone with the link to view all items that have been saved as "public".
Contributions to this are welcome
For that purpose I use the "Note to myself" feature of the Signal app. It allows me to share text and attachment. That's not to say what you wrote is not useful, on the contrary! There is a need and I'm specially happy that you published it under a Free Software license :thumbs_up:
Thank you ;)
I avoided any chat app because sometimes I will have to share files from someone else's computer and I don't find it safe to login to any app there.
https://signal.org is extremely safe to use, by design. But I get where you're coming from.