FFS — Fast File Search
Find anything. Instantly.
Details
- External ID
- 1260501
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- FFS — Fast File Search
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, User Experience
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Search files, apps, contacts, notes, and events instantly. Unit conversions, calculations, and more. Native Swift app, free shareware.
Enrichment
- Theme
- system maintenance and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- fast file search tool for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a fast native macOS launcher with file indexing, caching, and low-latency system-wide search requires low-level Swift systems programming beyond conversational vibe-coding.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift and Objective-C leveraging low-level macOS APIs like FSEvents, Spotlight's CoreServices/Metadata APIs, and a custom in-memory inverted index (e.g., SQLite with FTS5 or custom trie structures) optimized for sub-millisecond retrieval. It needs deep knowledge of macOS event loops, background daemon resource constraints, and sandbox access entitlements.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 23 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 24 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 112 days after the earliest competitor.
- Use-Fs · hn · 2026-08-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- FFFFinder · ph · 2026-09-29 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- JustDocz · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Filesmash Fast file manager for Windows · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- ballast · github · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- JSONaire · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Peek · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) · hn · 2026-07-07 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.