Filemat
an open-source web-based file manager
Details
- External ID
- 48295068
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Filemat
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7245557350565428
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello HN,I would like to share Filemat, a web-based file manager that I built because I wanted something with a simple setup and file permissions that work across the filesystem (as opposed to permissions only for a folder managed by the app).It's self-hosted and open-source (currently in beta).I'd be happy to hear your feedbackRepo: https://github.com/bingud/filemat
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- 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 It is a web-based file explorer that wraps standard operating system filesystem APIs and POSIX permissions via a backend daemon.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: copyparty, Google Drive, Windows Explorer
Concerns raised: Does not work on Windows, No regex-based email filtering for access control, Only filesystem-level permissions for app's own internal data folder
Feature requests: Windows support, Regex or config-based email filtering for granular access control, App-level permissions across arbitrary filesystem locations
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
- Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost) · hn · 2026-02-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hosting-File-Manager · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sigma File Manager · ph · 2026-06-08 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Filesmash Fast file manager for Windows · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Agam Space · hn · 2026-01-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored · hn · 2026-06-19 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- HTMLDrive · hn · 2026-07-07 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Use-Fs · hn · 2026-08-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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