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Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost)

Details

External ID
47123466
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost)
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Feb. 23, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
10
Upvotes percentile
0.5316711590296496
Tags
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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

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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.

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