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

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105 points sirbread | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 06:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | 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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donatj ◴[27 Jun 25 09:19 UTC] No.44395219[source]▶
Syncthing is the most confounding user-unfriendly software I have ever had the displeasure of using. It makes a process that should be pretty easy, pick some folders and share some keys remarkably painful and convoluted.
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1. pydry ◴[27 Jun 25 13:27 UTC] No.44396648[source]▶
to be fair, syncing is something that appears simple on the surface but which is a mess of complexity under the hood.