This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet.
It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
Product upvotes vs the next 3
Product comments vs the next 3
Product upvote speed vs the next 3
Product upvotes and comments
Product vs the next 3
Holdfast
Self-hosted file storage that isn't Nextcloud
Holdfast is self-hosted file storage that's fast and Dropbox-simple. Upload, browse, and share files with revocable links. Single Docker image, SQLite-backed, no external database, no cloud dependency. Deploy in minutes, own your data.
Top comment
Hey everyone, shiv here I've been self-hosting for 8+ years and slowly moved off Google Drive along the way. File storage was the one piece I never actually solved well. Nextcloud technically does it, but it's slow, the UI feels a decade old, and it ships as an entire app suite when all I wanted was upload, browse, and share a link. Handing someone SMB credentials just to grab one file was never a real answer either. So I stripped it down and built Holdfast. It only does what I actually use: fast upload and browsing, resumable uploads over tus so big files survive flaky connections, anonymous share links you can revoke anytime, trash with retention instead of instant deletes, and async previews for images, video, and PDFs. It ships as a single Docker image or a static binary, backed by SQLite and a plain directory on disk, so there's nothing extra to run or maintain. Full transparency, a large share of the code was written with AI-assisted tooling. I own the product direction, design decisions, and testing, but that's the honest answer on how this came together solo in the time I had. It's still early and under active development, so expect some rough edges, and I wouldn't trust it as your only copy of anything important yet. Repo and Docker Compose quick start are here: https://github.com/shivsarthak/h... Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're already running Nextcloud, Seafile, or Filerun and can tell me what would actually get you to switch.
About Holdfast on Product Hunt
“Self-hosted file storage that isn't Nextcloud”
Holdfast was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Holdfast is self-hosted file storage that's fast and Dropbox-simple. Upload, browse, and share files with revocable links. Single Docker image, SQLite-backed, no external database, no cloud dependency. Deploy in minutes, own your data.
On the analytics side, Holdfast competes within Open Source, Storage and GitHub — topics that collectively have 117.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Holdfast performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Holdfast?
Holdfast was hunted by Shiv Sarthak. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Holdfast including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.