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.
I'll definitely check this out, I'm facing the same challenges you describe as we speak, and in particular the invalidation step, I tend to always forget it.
Is there a way to preview which rules will be applied to the header before uploading? Especially when there are 2 filename patterns that overlap.
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 155 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.
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