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Pushduck

S3 uploads that run on Cloudflare Workers, no AWS SDK

Details

External ID
47761892
Source
HN
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Product
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Website domain
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Launched
April 14, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
12
Upvotes percentile
0.6446015424164524
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

I was tired setting up file uploads for multiple projects with bloated aws-sdk so built my own, my first attempt was next-s3-uploader, it worked but needed much better developer experience and wanted to get all benifits of typesafe Typescript, and wanted to have a very light weight toolkit that can do all things a dev needs to manage s3.Credits to `aws4fetch` which made it be able to run in edge enviornments and cloudflare workers, now im trying to expand and build towards non Reactjs frameworks too and have support.Setting up file uploads shouldnt be hard, but is. the easier options have vendor lockin's.So made a DX friendly, typesafe file upload library, enjoy. Happy to discuss any improvements and options.Repo: https://github.com/abhay-ramesh/pushduck

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
s3 uploads on cloudflare workers without aws sdk
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a lightweight TypeScript utility wrapper around Cloudflare Workers that creates direct pre-signed URLs or streams uploads to S3 compatible buckets without the heavyweight AWS SDK. A solo developer can build this in a couple of days with an AI assistant.

Discussion

7 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare R2, AWS S3, UploadThing

Concerns raised: AWS SDK is 2MB and doesn't run on Workers, Risk of vendor lock-in with UploadThing

Competitors

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Attention rank: #41 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 166 days after the earliest competitor.

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