Why I built files24.online

I'm Yahor – an engineer with 20+ years building software, and a musician on the side. My days run across an absurd mix of devices: a phone on one operating system, a laptop on another, a locked-down work machine, a tablet I only read on. Moving a single file between them was always the same small ordeal.

Every option annoyed me. Email it to myself and fight attachment limits. Upload it to a cloud locker, wait, then download it again on the other side – leaving a copy on a server I don’t control. Or install yet another “free” app wrapped in banner ads, pop-ups, and an account I never asked for. That’s a lot of friction, and a lot of trust handed to strangers, for a thirty-second task.

What I wanted was boring and obvious: open a page on both devices and send the file straight from one to the other. No upload step. No account. No ad reading my screen. And the technology to do exactly that already lives in every modern browser – it’s called WebRTC, and connecting peers directly is something I’ve worked with for years and genuinely love.

So I built files24.online on top of it. Two browsers pair with a short code or a QR scan, negotiate a direct connection, and stream the file between them. The server only helps them find each other – it never receives or stores what you send. No banners, no tracking, no sign-up. The same principles run through everything I make.