NC Web
Norton Commander for the web, built with vanilla JavaScript
Details
- External ID
- 47426428
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- NC Web
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5781057810578106
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web-based file manager
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A two-pane Norton Commander file manager clone in vanilla JavaScript running in the browser is a classic frontend UI project that an AI coding assistant can generate quickly.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: No test suite
Competitors
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Attention rank: #520 of 1149 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 138 days after the earliest competitor.
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- container · github · 2026-09-23 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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