Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ripon, and I built MeghXL.

Moving a file across a room is still weirdly hard. You email it to yourself, or upload 2 GB to a cloud drive so a laptop two metres away can download it back, or you go looking for a USB stick. AirDrop fixes this beautifully — if everyone in the room owns Apple hardware. In most offices, classrooms and homes they don't. So MeghXL works the other way round. You install it on ONE computer, the one that's usually on. That computer becomes a private file hub for your network. Everyone else opens meghxl.local:3000 in a browser, or scans a QR code. iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, a guest's laptop: nothing to install, no account.

What it's like to use:

A board, not a beam. Drop a file once and it's there for the whole team. The other person doesn't have to be online at that moment.
Big files from phones actually arrive. If the screen locks or the Wi-Fi drops, the upload pauses and carries on from where it stopped.
Disguised programs get caught. An "invoice.pdf" that is really a Windows program is flagged in red before anyone opens it.
Safe on shared Wi-Fi. Private mode lets people in only with a QR code or a 6-digit code. The host can approve every new device, block one, and post announcements.
One host, and it proves it. The desktop app pairs with your host once and refuses any other computer that claims to be MeghXL. If the host computer dies, its recovery key restores it on new hardware.
When a phone can't connect, it tells you why: Windows set to "Public", a firewall, or a guest network.

What it deliberately doesn't do: send your files anywhere else. No cloud, no relay, no account, no "share publicly" button. Files go straight across your own network, with no size limit.

Honest comparison: LocalSend is excellent. It's peer-to-peer, so every device that sends installs the app. MeghXL is a hub: one computer runs it, everyone else uses a browser, and files wait on a shared board. The

trade-off is that the host computer has to be on.

It's free and open source (Apache 2.0). The apps for macOS (notarized),

Windows (signed) and Linux (.deb / .rpm) are on GitHub.

I'm here all day. Tell me what breaks, what's missing, or how you'd use it.

I read every comment. 🙏