Yatko (yatko.app) turns any public Github repo into clean download links that pick the right release asset for each visitor's OS and architecture. Swap the domain — one click to the right binary.
For a lot of beginners, Github can be quite complex and intimidating. And even for the advanced people, maneuvering through the Github Releases page to find the right installation file for their OS and architecture.
I've created Yatko for that reason. Yatko serves you the right installation file for your OS and architecuture. With Yatko, every installation is just one download button away. All you need to do is enter the name of the repo which you want to install on the frontpage, and Yatko will serve the download link to you directly.
That's not even the best feature of Yatko. Just change the domain name of any public Github repo to a Yatko, for example github.com/cli/cli to yatko.app/cli/cli and you'll be taken straight to a much simpler installation procedure.
Yatko is open source as well! So check it out and please let me know if I can make any improvements to it. Contributions are welcome as well!
Website: yatko.app
Repo link: github.com/argval/yatko (Make sure to star it if you like it!)
Tried the domain swap on two repos just now, yatko.app/cli/cli and yatko.app/argval/yatko, and both sit on "Loading release…" forever. Chrome 151 on macOS, and the network panel shows no request going out to api.github.com at all, so it's hanging before the fetch rather than getting rate limited. I'd look at the OS and arch detection path, that's the only thing running ahead of the call. Rough one to hit on launch day, flagging it early so you can catch it.
This is so smart! I'm a beginner myself, this thought once hit me but I never start to solve it because I thought maybe professional coders know how to download exactly and I'm just being stupid......I like this tool!
This fixes one of those tiny GitHub UX problems that almost everyone has run into at some point. The domain-swap idea is particularly clever :) How do you handle repos with unusual release naming or multiple valid binaries for the same OS/architecture?
About Yatko on Product Hunt
“The download button Github forgot to add”
Yatko launched on Product Hunt on August 23rd, 2026 and earned 110 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Yatko (yatko.app) turns any public Github repo into clean download links that pick the right release asset for each visitor's OS and architecture. Swap the domain — one click to the right binary.
Yatko was featured in Developer Tools (518k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 107.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Yatko?
Yatko was hunted by Anurag Vallur. 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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