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SmartPack
Lossless archiving. Zero dependencies.
SmartPack is a dependency-free lossless archiver for Ubuntu, built entirely with Python’s standard library. It creates its ownspk format and adapts compression to the data, combining content-aware codec selection, cross-file block deduplication, solid packing for small files, and sparse zero-block handling. Archives include per-block SHA-256 verification and safe extraction checks, with auto, fast, balanced, and max modes.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
The idea behind SmartPack is pretty simple: how much can an archiver do without asking you to install half the internet first?
SmartPack is built around Python’s standard library and its own `.spk` format. It looks at the data before deciding how to compress it, deduplicates repeated blocks across files, packs small similar files together, handles sparse data efficiently, and verifies blocks with SHA-256.
No 7-Zip. No WinRAR. No pip packages. No service running somewhere else.
Just Python, files, and an unreasonable amount of interest in making them smaller. 😄
It’s open source, early, and very much something I’d like people to break. Feedback, weird datasets, compression results, and “why on earth did you do it this way?” questions are all welcome.
About SmartPack on Product Hunt
“Lossless archiving. Zero dependencies.”
SmartPack was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #132 on the daily leaderboard. SmartPack is a dependency-free lossless archiver for Ubuntu, built entirely with Python’s standard library. It creates its ownspk format and adapts compression to the data, combining content-aware codec selection, cross-file block deduplication, solid packing for small files, and sparse zero-block handling. Archives include per-block SHA-256 verification and safe extraction checks, with auto, fast, balanced, and max modes.
On the analytics side, SmartPack competes within Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SmartPack performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted SmartPack?
SmartPack was hunted by Taha Moeini. 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 SmartPack including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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