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LocatorZero
Find any file by name. Nothing leaves your computer.
Type a few letters and see every place a file, folder, web page or open tab lives: your disk, USB and network drives, cloud folders and every browser. It asks before it looks, never connects to the internet, and lets you verify that live.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built LocatorZero because I kept losing files across my laptop, a backup drive and three browsers, and every tool that could find them wanted to index my data or send it somewhere.
LocatorZero does one thing: you type part of a name, it shows where that thing lives. It searches your disk, USB and network drives, cloud folders, every browser's history and your open tabs, as a list or as a map.
What makes it different: • Nothing leaves your computer. The app is blocked from the internet, and the Verify button in the footer runs that check live. • It keeps no copy. It uses the search index your system already has, and keeps no index of its own. Delete a file and it's gone from LocatorZero too. • It asks first. Every drive or folder gets a consent prompt before it's read. • Honest numbers. Results paint in about 33 ms. We publish what we measured, including two targets we miss.
Try it in your browser with demo data, no install: locatorzero.pages.dev. The desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux is free for 90 days, then $3/month, $25/year or $35 once.
I'd love to hear where it doesn't find something you expected. That's the most useful feedback for a locator.
I built LocatorZero because I kept losing files across my laptop, a backup drive and three browsers, and every tool that could find them wanted to index my data or send it somewhere.
LocatorZero does one thing well: you type part of a name, it shows where that thing lives. Your disk, USB and network drives, cloud folders, every browser's history and your open tabs, as a list or as a map.
New in 0.2: Clean up. Pick a folder or drive and it finds files stored more than once, plus your biggest files, in seconds (about 8 s for 178,000 files on my machine). You see every copy on a map, tick the extras, and free up space. And because deleting is serious: • Nothing moves until you confirm, in a second window that lists every file. • One copy of every file always stays. • Each copy is checked byte for byte first, then goes to the Recycle Bin or Trash, never deleted outright.
What makes it different: • Nothing leaves your computer. The app is blocked from the internet, and the Verify button runs that check live. • It keeps no copy. It uses the search index your system already has. Delete a file and it's gone from LocatorZero too. • It asks first. Every drive or folder gets a consent prompt before it's read. • Source available. Read the code yourself: github.com/joyfulmake/locatorzero-source
Try it in your browser with demo files, Clean up included, no install: locatorzero.pages.dev. The desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux is free for 90 days, then $3/month, $25/year or $35 once.
I'd love to hear where it doesn't find something you expected, or what Clean up should find next (similar photos and leftover installers are on the roadmap).
If you want the description on the launch page to mention Clean up too, here's a version under Product Hunt's 260-character limit:
Type a few letters and see every place a file, folder, web page or open tab lives, across disk, drives, cloud folders and browsers. New: Clean up finds duplicates and frees space safely. Offline, and it asks before it looks.
About LocatorZero on Product Hunt
“Find any file by name. Nothing leaves your computer.”
LocatorZero was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Type a few letters and see every place a file, folder, web page or open tab lives: your disk, USB and network drives, cloud folders and every browser. It asks before it looks, never connects to the internet, and lets you verify that live.
LocatorZero was featured in Productivity (663.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 170.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted LocatorZero?
LocatorZero was hunted by Sriram Challa. 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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