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Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network

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105 points sirbread | 2 comments | 27 Jun 25 06:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.571s | source

i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs.

it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies.

for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying.

github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink binary: https://github.com/sirbread/sink/releases/tag/v0.1

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dewey ◴[27 Jun 25 06:48 UTC] No.44394289[source]▶
What is the selling point over the very mature Syncthing? I’ve been using that for this use case for many years, with the additional benefit of also being able to sync it to my server, having a UI and being in all package managers already.
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1. shakna ◴[27 Jun 25 07:16 UTC] No.44394452[source]▶
SyncThing's insistence that a web UI be how you do everything has caused me quite a few headaches. Especially when said UI regularly breaks accessibility tools.

(The team do tend to fix those accessibility problems pretty fast. But spending a couple days a month working around a tool is not my idea of fun.)

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2. zimpenfish ◴[27 Jun 25 08:01 UTC] No.44394753[source]▶
> SyncThing's insistence that a web UI be how you do everything

It does have `syncthing cli ...` which -I think- lets you do everything but to call it obtuse would be an understatement.