scry
Whole-disk file search for Windows: any file by name in a millisecond, search inside your files, a search bar on Alt+Shift+Space and a tray icon.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 71%)
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- desktop-search
- everything-alternative
- file-search
- rust
- search
- windows
Similar launches
See all 218 similar launches →Could you build this?
Yes Fast whole-disk name search is a known technique (reading the NTFS MFT into an in-memory index), and the hotkey, tray, and UI are standard Windows work that a vibe-coding builder can assemble. Content search can be added with existing text-extraction libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 218 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #197 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- Files Go · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- JustDocz · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- File-Minnow-Linux · github · 2026-10-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Branchway · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- lazyFinds · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- fsearch · github · 2026-10-08 · 1945 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- windows-bulk-file-renamer · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1417195377
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- scry
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.29
- All tags
- desktop-search, everything-alternative, file-search, rust, search, windows
- AI summary
- fast whole-disk file search for windows
- Manually corrected
- No