I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
Details
- External ID
- 49165845
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang
- Website domain
- picburn.xyz
- Launched
- Aug. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6975806451612904
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and give me control over how many times the private link can be shared and how long the image will be accessible for.There are similar services to this one, but they are either convoluted with ads, or require sign-up, or expect you to fill out a survey or something.picburn is small, safe, and has no interest (nor the code or the server space) for storing your uploads.give it a try if it fits your usecase and let me know what you think.Note: there was a typo in the url
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-destructing image hosting
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author is an entry-level Go dev who built a standard web service that stores files temporarily with TTL counters and view limits.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Search Console for domain verification, Open source analytics software instead of Google tracking
Concerns raised: Legal liability for hosting illegal content (CSAM, malware), Site will be rapidly discovered and abused by bad actors, Domain will be blacklisted as dangerous/phishing if malicious content uploaded, Google tracking script contradicts 'no tracking' claim, Organized abuse pipelines operate with commercial efficiency
Feature requests: Gate/restrict public access to uploaded content, Red team security audit before launching, Open source the code publicly
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 129 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 130 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- imageserver.pw · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Minilith · hn · 2026-09-05 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ShareFilesFree · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Flashpaper · hn · 2026-07-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- PicSqueeze — Free Online · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Bucket · hn · 2026-01-25 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- OptiBatch · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- DD Photos · hn · 2026-03-10 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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