filex
Self-hosted file manager and sharing in one Go binary
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filex is a file manager and sharing app you run on your own server. It connects local disks, S3, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SMB, leaves files in place, and serves the same tree back over S3, WebDAV, SFTP and NFS. Desktop sync, Office editing in the browser, MIT.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: file management tools · 97 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 97 launches in file management tools →
Could you build this?
Partial The web file manager, connectors, and in-browser Office editing are buildable with libraries and integrations. Serving the same tree as a compliant NFS and SFTP server, plus a desktop sync client, is hard protocol and systems work.
What it would actually take: Use Go with existing protocol libraries for S3, WebDAV, SFTP, and FTP, and a storage abstraction layer for local, S3, and SMB backends. The hard parts are a correct NFS server and a reliable bidirectional sync client that handles conflicts. Office editing typically means integrating an existing document server such as OnlyOffice or Collabora. This requires a strong systems and filesystem engineer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 442 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 443 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- FileX: Offline File Converter · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- yourdrive · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Nexo · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Filemat · hn · 2026-05-27 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- NEXORA · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- FIlesense · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- NexFileo · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Self-hosted lightweight file sharing app. (folderhost) · hn · 2026-02-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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