mickael-kerjean/filestash on Hacker News

…is something I've been working on with my oss work: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive , and https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-09-29 · in Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

I have been working on exactly this with Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), out of millions of users, 99% of them don't seem to care so much about the malleability, it gets very usefull when a company ask for…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-09-28 · in Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

…[1]. Unsurprisingly plugins represent more than 10x the code than what the core provides. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-09-28 · in Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) has a s3 gateway plugin that I made. It proxy the S3 traffic to any downstream storage: SFTP, FTP, another S3, SMB, NFS, IPFS, ...

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-09-15 · in Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

…chained signed with rfc3161 does not contribute to making the system shittier for everyone else [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive [2] https://www.filestash.app/docs/plugin

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-31 · in Malleable software = solid bases and custom code

I am working on making the Dropbox launch first comment a reality: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash It gives you the Dropbox experience on any storage you want inclusive of FTP but also let you access your Dropbox storage via…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-24 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

Same as op, I rewrote away from react my Dropbox alternative ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) in vanilla js a couple years back around the idea that components are plain exported functions like this: export default function…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-21 · in There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

…built-in software. This is exactly what I've done: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-12 · in Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

…electronic document management systems, ... [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive | https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-12 · in Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

…FTP, SFTP, S3: - the desktop client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive - the web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

> dropbox clone get off the ground Thats exactly what Im working on: - web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash - desktop sync: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive In line with the infamous top comment during their…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-08-07 · in Taste Is All That's Left

…directory and you'll see as many php-fpm processes launched as there are thumbnails to process. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash is a good web-based example of such a thing, ignore all the guff about needing docker since…

comment by hagbard_c · 2026-06-13 · in Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future

…with v4l2m2m. Once that's working, it should improve video encoding support in my OSS project ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash )

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-05-29 · in News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development

…wasm. Plugins made with tinygo were 10x slower than the same code in rust or c compiled to wasm [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/ser...

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-05-26 · in Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

…CVE-2026-33810, CVE-2026-33811, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-39820, CVE-2026-39836, CVE-2026-42499 ref: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-05-20 · in Dumb ways for an open source project to die

…disclose more than 50% of my customer base is already in America and France represent about 1%. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

…say at conferences to entertain each other as they have no power to actually make it happen. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

…interested in making their own than contributing to existing projects they don't fully control [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

…customer base. I would have never thought my own government would be competing on my niche [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

…they have no power to actually make it happen, and don't even get me started on public markets. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

Exactly, just implement this interface: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/ser...

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

…via git so when you did a git checkout of something, the whole db would get updated on the fly [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-10 · in Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

…Hetzner Storage Box[2], which is insane value for money at 11 euro per 5 terabytes per month. [1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

comment by SergeAx · 2026-04-07 · in Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

…from tech to sales, marketing and support for my company based of my oss work: Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ). For my business, the most important channel is SEO and particularly creating online tools to get…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-04-07 · in Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

…The direction we are heading makes me want to quit, all points to software now being worthless [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-03-26 · in We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year

…minimum requirements, and I’m still waiting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178371 [2] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-03-19 · in What 81,000 people want from AI

That's exactly the direction I took with Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) where everything is treated as a filesystem with fine-grained control to handle authorisation, plus a virtual filesystem layer to create…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-03-10 · in Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw

…over FTPS, SFTP, S3, or MCP. And not just Dropbox, it works with every storage backend out there: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-03-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

A lot more than a 100, for once I'm one of those https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-27 · in Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

…being tamper proof, traceable, timestamped and non-repudiable link: https://www.filestash.app/ https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-18 · in Claude Sonnet 4.6

…a very poorly worded screen which will definitly get updated with your suggestions update: done => https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/commit/d3380713...

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-13 · in MinIO repository is no longer maintained

All LLM i've tried are capable to write plugin for my AGPL work: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-13 · in MinIO repository is no longer maintained

I'm the author of another option ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) which has a S3 gateway that expose itself as a S3 server but is just a proxy that forward your S3 call onto anything else like SFTP, local FS, FTP, NFS, SMB,…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-13 · in MinIO repository is no longer maintained

…this stings. I have been working since 2017 in creating an open source alternative to Dropbox ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), the reality is out of 60 customers, only 2 are French and most contacts I've had with French…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-04 · in France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

As a Frenchman involved in creating an open source Dropbox ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) that can connect to any kind of storage and can expose itself as not only a web client but also SFTP, webdav and S3, with virtual…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-02-04 · in France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

I use it extensively in my OSS work ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) mostly around: 1. creating plugins that get executed in the browser to render files like Parquet, PSD, TIFF, SQLite, EPS, ZIP, TGZ, GIS related files and…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-01-20 · in Improving the performance of WAT parser

Or the people who write wasm don't talk too much about it. My OSS work ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) has tons of it: 1. to create web versions of applications that are traditionally desktop only to render things like…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-01-16 · in The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

…published to the OpenAI marketplace since around Christmas, currently pending review. ref: [1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash [2]: https://www.filestash.app/docs/guide/virtual-filesystem.html [3]:…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-01-11 · in FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

I use WASM extensively in my OSS work with Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ) in 3 main areas: 1. to create web versions of applications that are traditionally desktop only to render things like Parquet, PSD, TIFF,…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2026-01-09 · in What happened to WebAssembly

…with specific needs. It's a bit more than noodle profitable but quite under a normal salary. [1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-12-18 · in Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

…from governments to F500. In my bubble the paid support plan mostly work with US entities. [1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-11-26 · in What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project

…lot of time explaining things at length, people will link back to how much an asshole you are. [1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/661#issu...

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-11-26 · in What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project

…is no community around growing its usage I just added support for perkeep in Filestash last week ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash )

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-11-12 · in Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

I made one such lightweight alternative frontend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-11-03 · in Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

I use rxjs day in day out for my oss work (eg: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/pub... ) It's quite common to see job description where I live (Sydney) with rxjava but reactive libs are a bit of a niche thing mostly…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-10-27 · in Go beyond Goroutines: introducing the Reactive paradigm

The frontend of my main OSS work was made is plain es6: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash The frameworky code is under 100 lines of code, heavily inspired by what I think is a good idea from React: "components are pure…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-10-17 · in Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

…the Dropbox API) so we can settle the argument of the infamous top comment of the Dropbox launch: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-10-13 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

…There is no silent error. In practice, there are a couple fail safes: - using both eslint and tsc: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/pub... - the code is full of runtime assertions:…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-09-16 · in React is winning by default and slowing innovation

https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/pub... All using plain strings, what happens when you do a typo? Will your app will silently break or you’ll have a compile time error? that’s a huge draw back - in react I can get a…

comment by throwaway-0001 · 2025-09-16 · in React is winning by default and slowing innovation

…worse for 99% of users because 1% of those needed something. The project in question is Filestash ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), what made me switch are those 2 reasons: - Performance ceiling. Past the point where you…

comment by mickael-kerjean · 2025-09-16 · in React is winning by default and slowing innovation