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S3-compatible object storage, a maintained fork of MinIO
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HN · launched Aug 6, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 24%) · 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
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 118 launches in cloud storage and backup management tools →
Could you build this?
No Distributed object storage with S3 compliance, erasure coding, consistency models, and multi-disk failure recovery is among the hardest distributed systems problems.
What it would actually take: Built in Go with low-level disk I/O, SIMD-accelerated Reed-Solomon erasure coding, distributed lock management, and a high-performance HTTP engine supporting the extensive AWS S3 API spec. Hard parts include strict data durability guarantees, bitrot detection, multipart upload reassembly across clustered nodes, and maintaining sub-millisecond metadata latencies. This requires senior distributed systems infrastructure engineers and years of domain expertise.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 4012 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #914 of 4013 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
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- casita · github · 2026-09-27 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- ZeroFS · hn · 2026-07-02 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- storage-bench · github · 2026-10-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- TidesDB · hn · 2025-11-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Tonbo · hn · 2025-12-17 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Knitting · hn · 2026-10-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- mino · github · 2026-11-11 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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