Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost)
Details
- External ID
- 47123466
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost)
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5316711590296496
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
It's been a few months since the last HN post. I've added lots of new features to this app. One of them is Services - you can now run background tasks like a web server or game server. I'd love to hear your feedback, thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted lightweight file sharing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight self-hosted file sharing web app with background process/service management is a classic CRUD and process-spawning tool that can be built easily with AI coding assistants.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 101 days after the earliest competitor.
- Docket (system for active note-taking) now self-hosted after HN asked · hn · 2026-07-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Filemat · hn · 2026-05-27 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Socket to Me, a static file server that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-06-22 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Capsule · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Agam Space · hn · 2026-01-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LightCloud · hn · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Shareboxed · ph · 2026-09-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Mist · hn · 2026-01-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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