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The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resumes) and the file download (which is still running) seamlessly completes.

I found that particularly impressive.

> into a file server

This is underselling it by at least three orders of magnitude. This is astonishing tool, you have to watch the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

In addition to being an awesome piece of software, their self hosted demo server is the fastest web app I have seen in a long time ... and this is while trending on HN !

Amazing.

Now I am wondering, would it be technically possible to build a similar app but based on the syncthing protocol?

I really like syncthing but it would be cool to have a version where you could just easily share specific files with peers.

From https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/vers... (kudos for doing this, BTW!):

> seafile … and nextcloud … their license is problematic

There’s nothing problematic about the AGPL, really. It protects users. It protects developers against someone taking over their projects. The only people it bothers are those who wish to take a free software project and integrate with an unfree one. That seems like a feature to me!

This is the wet dream of every power-user. It has tons of features on top of the file server. And it also seems developed by a 10x (100x?) developer, I mean, just making/editing the video is a work of art and humor.

If the author is lurking here, are you doing all by yourself? Do you use any LLM/agent?

It really is impressive.

Copyparty is an amazing piece of software. I recommend watching the recent YouTube video for an overview[0]. The developer is a personal friend and my household is proud to own one of 20 limited edition copyparty disc releases.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

This is amazing, just amazing. I'm sure this fills important use-cases in my personal projects.

Bj-skys.s3z - i havent heard in years. Excellent choice in the demo video and thanks for serving up on your nuc server! https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/music/chiptunes/#af-bd94d434

I've wanted to have local image and video hosting for a long time, this came at the right time. I saw the video on my YouTube front-page yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Absolutely amazing project, my hat's off to the creator

Half techie guy here with basic question. Could I run this on an old android phone sitting on a shelf with a large minisd card in the slot and call it a day?

With a VPN on (Mullvad), https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/ returns 403 Forbidden nginx

I have a decent library of ebooks and music albums I (legally!) purchased from myriad sources. This sounds like the perfect solution to get that properly onto my LAN in an accessible form.

Take a look at the known issues section regarding iPhones. It’s good evidence of apples non competitive behaviour regarding browser support. PWA/websites are not allowed to be good on iPhones.

I'm planning to use copyparty with Apple Shortcuts to sync my clipboards across devices - should make life a lot easier.

Besides being useful, this just seems fun as heck after watching the demo video. I'm curious if folks have examples of other similarly fun/whimsical (but still useful!) software. I would submit https://fraidyc.at/ to the list.

This is much more than just a file server. It looks pretty neat.

I am unreasonably happy about the "Activate Windows" watermark on the demo server (https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/)

From the introductory video: "There is no telemetry and their never will be. Not even an auto-updater". And yet this is one of the most feature-full projects I've ever seen. Brilliant.

How does it compare to Caddy?

I saw "Python" and was going to comment a completely stand-alone* executable would be simpler, and then I scrolled and holy moly, there are a lot of features there! It would be quite some work to redo it in another lang.

*It already has no deps

Great job there. A nice tool you've made.

Edit: already adressed: https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#copypar...

I use this as a music player for my ancient ipad in my kitchen. It’s ugly but nothing else worked; the dev even changed it a bit to help me out

I'll take this out for a ride with my friends at the Assembly Demoparty, let's see if it holds up!

I also like SendMe [0]. I’ve used it to share files between local PC and server sometimes. And also to send large files to friends without cloud links. It’s written in Rust and based on iroh p2p library [1].

[0]: https://github.com/n0-computer/sendme

[1]: https://www.iroh.computer/

This is Awesome!

I had been using serverultimate on my phone for a few years, and recently limitations made the port binding not work anymore. Copyparty using termux on Android worked amazing!

I love seeing the term file server being used as opposed to "NAS". Its a server that serves files so its a file server!

It will be useful for me, thank you for the info.

I have never heard of this before, but watching through their Youtube introduction, this might be one of the best pieces of software I've ever seen. Assuming it works as advertised, this could replace a few things I've been hosting myself.

As someone who has tried and failed to upload 2gb files on mobile data, only for the upload to fail at the last minute, this genuinely makes me want to play with it. There aren’t a lot of good drop-in solutions like this.

Just learnt about this awesome tool. Now it's on all my systems. :-)

Thanks!

Don’t get me wrong, but that one person is part time developing this magnificent peace of software with his smartphone commuting in the bus is another proof that Python is a great programming language.

Really cool! I wish it also had some better support for books so one could replace calibre web.

For example, access over OPDS, which one could then configure as the store backend on Kobo eReaders (yes, that's possible).

No deps is great, but what I'm looking for is no bugs, authentication and encryption. I want features turned off by default, configs tight as a drum.

[starts watching video] Ok cool it's a file browser, there's a million of the---s----e

[keeps watching video] what the fuck

Is anyone else have their antivirus alarms go off on visiting this repo's URL?

Absolutely amazing piece of software, the kind that makes you wish you had a use-case for that. Kudos to devs for taking security seriously, too.

By the way, the youtube video showcases this project really well.

Damn wow I really need to make up a reason to use this.

From the "'frequently' asked questions

> i want to learn python and/or programming and am considering looking at the copyparty source code

> do not

This is awesome. The readme is fun as heck and I just want to use the software based on that. I see nothing but complaints about nextcloud and others on r/selfhosted. I can't wait to try this out.

Wow sick loading animations https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/ !!!

..and with RSS feeds, very smart!

Saw the demo video on YouTube today. Almost made me rent a cheap vps with lots of storage just to run it

I pop this up at an annual lan party amongst friends and its always a hit. Easy to use, easy to run, jam-packed with features

Looks like another reinvention of the torrent.

This is awesome! The demo is really fun, nostalgic 90s vibes, it even lets me play chiptunes :). Keeping all dependencies optional and just making it a single file is great too!

Coincidentally, I started to do media server similar to this 3 days ago. I just want to serve any folder, then be able to download a file and watch videos with a decent video player.

Now I feel like crap seeing how amazing this project is.

This is amazing, and somehow the "wapkthrough" video is super fun. Super kudos.

this guy protocols