Repogen
a static site generator for package repositories
Details
- External ID
- 46514559
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- RepoLens
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 38
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7536231884057971
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,Package repositories don't need to be complicated. They're just static files: metadata indexes and the packages themselves. Yet somehow hosting your own feels like you need dedicated infrastructure and deep knowledge of obscure tooling.repogen is an SSG for package repos. Point it at your .deb/.rpm/.apk files, it generates the static structure, you upload to S3 or any web host. Done. $0.02/month to host packages for your whole team.It supports Debian, RPM, Alpine, Pacman, and Homebrew. Has incremental mode for updating repos without redownloading everything. Handles signing. Very alpha, but it works. Would love to get feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- static site generator for package repositories
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A static site generator for Debian/RPM/package repos simply reads archive metadata (e.g. control files in .deb) and formats standard index files (like Packages.gz or Release) and HTML directory listings, which is easily implemented with standard scripting and LLM assistance.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Artifactory, apt-ftparchive, plow (serverless debian repos), repogen
Concerns raised: Git-LFS support limitations with GitHub Pages hosting, Package size constraints, Complexity of diverse infrastructure tooling combinations, Whether multi-repo support is necessary vs single-purpose tools
Feature requests: Docker image support, Demo or example project
Competitors
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Attention rank: #21 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 63 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SmartPack · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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