ASL Shredder
File removal with clear limits and local receipts
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Details
- External ID
- 1275351
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ASL Shredder
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Privacy
Description
ASL Shredder is a paid Windows app for removing a selected regular file and saving a local receipt of what was verified. Overwrite is limited to declared magnetic disks. Logical deletion on SSD or flash does not guarantee sanitization. The Microsoft Store app is separate from the Android candidate and organization workflows described on the website.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop file management utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- secure file deletion utility with verifiable logs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the UI and basic file deletion are simple, reliable secure file shredding with verifiable overwrite receipts on Windows requires low-level OS storage driver interactions and filesystem handling. Vibe coding struggle with low-level Win32 storage APIs and verifying physical disk sanitization guarantees.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a desktop application (C++ / Rust or C#) interacting directly with Win32 storage APIs (DeviceIoControl, FSCTL commands) to query physical drive geometries (HDD vs. TRIM-supporting SSDs) and overwrite file allocation clusters. The core technical difficulty lies in bypassing Windows file system caching, Volume Shadow Copies, and journaling (NTFS USN) to ensure non-recoverability on magnetic media, requiring specialized low-level Windows systems programming skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 221 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #98 of 222 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- Delune — Local Privacy Cleanup · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Easy Disk · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- UNIVERSAL File Converter · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ASL Recovery Center · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- EatUp · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hunter Disk Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- PDF Unlocker Pro · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Shred Browser · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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