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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.
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.
How does Holdfast handle large file uploads or chunking, especially on slower connections? Curious whether the single Docker image setup holds up well for teams sharing media-heavy folders or if there are size limits I should know about.
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.
Holdfast was featured in Open Source (68.6k followers), Storage (7.2k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 39.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Holdfast?
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