Basalt
Your own streaming service, on a drive you already own
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Details
- External ID
- 1264256
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Basalt
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7682903893172842
- Tags
- Android, Open Source, Privacy, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Basalt turns one Windows PC into a private drive for the whole household. Browse every file, watch your films and series, and pick up where you left off on any PC, phone or tablet. Free, open source, no cloud and no account.
Enrichment
- Niche
- personal media and device tinkering tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted personal streaming service for home storage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic local file serving is simple, building a cross-platform home media streaming server that handles transcoding, playback sync, and discovery across devices is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: A real solution resembles a lightweight Plex or Jellyfin, built with Go/Rust/C# for the daemon, integrating FFmpeg for dynamic on-the-fly video transcoding and HLS streaming. The difficult challenges are handling local network mDNS discovery, tracking watch state across heterogeneous clients (web, mobile, smart TVs), and optimizing CPU/GPU hardware-accelerated video decoding/encoding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 76 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 77 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmniFlux Player · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Filmxora · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- mosaic · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- RELAY · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Cloud Dock TV · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Cineza · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Fresco · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- C7 Streamings · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.