icloud-s3
An S3-compatible object store backed by iCloud Shared Photo Albums. Quota policy: Apple's Shared Album loophole.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 489 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud storage and backup management tools · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 118 launches in cloud storage and backup management tools →
Could you build this?
No It depends on undocumented iCloud Shared Album internals and works around Apple's quotas, so it would require reverse engineering private protocols that are fragile, likely to break, and in conflict with Apple's terms.
What it would actually take: A working version would need to reverse engineer Apple's private iCloud Photos and shared-album APIs, including authentication, upload and chunking formats, and metadata encoding, then present them as an S3-compatible interface. The expertise required is deep protocol reverse engineering and ongoing maintenance against Apple's changes, and the approach is likely to be blocked or terminated by Apple.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
- PhotoShelf · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Hide Photos: Secret Album · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Gallerya · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BackiGo · ph · 2026-09-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Record Store · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hidlet · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Our Family Album · ph · 2026-10-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Albumer · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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