Open-source desktop app for Amazon S3 and CloudFront
Hoistbay is a free desktop app for macOS and Windows that takes the repetitive work out of S3 and CloudFront. Set header rules once (Cache-Control, Content-Type, Content-Encoding by file pattern) and they apply on every upload. Download whole folders, clear CloudFront cache in one click, and switch AWS accounts instantly. Keys stay in your OS keychain, no backend, no telemetry. MIT licensed.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Kartik, the maker of Hoistbay.
I built it because I was tired of opening the AWS console in a browser for the same S3 chores after every deploy:
- No automatic header rules. Every upload meant setting Cache-Control, Content-Type and Content-Encoding by hand. With gzip-compressed builds (static sites, Unity WebGL, fonts) one wrong header breaks the page.
- No way to download a whole folder from the console.
- Clearing CloudFront cache is a slow, multi-step process, and stale cache is easy to miss.
What Hoistbay does:
- Per-bucket header rules by file pattern (*.js, *.wasm.gz, *.html...) applied automatically on every upload
- Upload and download whole folders, structure kept
- One-click CloudFront invalidations with live status
- Multiple AWS profiles and regions, switch instantly
- One Activity panel for every upload, download and cache clear
Your keys stay in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager. No backend, no telemetry, MIT licensed, so you can read every line.
You can try the live demo in your browser on the website before installing anything. I'd love to hear what's missing from your S3 workflow.
About Hoistbay on Product Hunt
“Open-source desktop app for Amazon S3 and CloudFront”
Hoistbay launched on Product Hunt on October 20th, 2026 and earned 147 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Hoistbay is a free desktop app for macOS and Windows that takes the repetitive work out of S3 and CloudFront. Set header rules once (Cache-Control, Content-Type, Content-Encoding by file pattern) and they apply on every upload. Download whole folders, clear CloudFront cache in one click, and switch AWS accounts instantly. Keys stay in your OS keychain, no backend, no telemetry. MIT licensed.
On the analytics side, Hoistbay competes within Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 631.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hoistbay performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hoistbay?
Hoistbay was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. 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.
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Rohan Chaubey