Blobber
Push and stream arbitrary files with OCI registries
Details
- External ID
- 46560821
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Blobber
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- file storage using container registries
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic CLI or tool using existing OCI client libraries can be vibe-coded, but implementing low-level OCI registry chunk streaming, layer composition, and robust OCI spec adherence is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: Likely built in Go or Rust utilizing OCI distribution specification libraries (e.g., ORAS or containerd/go-micro). The difficult parts entail handling resumable chunked layer uploads, content-addressable storage hashing (SHA256), streaming de-duplication, memory-efficient streaming of multi-gigabyte blobs without local disk caching, and compatibility with various cloud container registry quirks. Requires solid systems programming and container registry protocol knowledge.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Selective file extraction from container images by filename or SHA hash, Decentralized/swarm-like distribution from public OCI registries
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 326 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #306 of 327 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 70 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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