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Introducing Files SDK A unified storage SDK for object and blob backends. One small, honest API. Web-standards I/O. An escape hatch when you need the native client. → 18 providers - S3, R2, Vercel Blob, Google Drive, etc. → upload, download, head, delete, copy, list, url → Works everywhere...

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

Check it out:

Profilbild von Hayden
Haydenvor 4 Monaten

Install with `npm i files-sdk`

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David Matějkavor 4 Monaten

"one small, honest API" 347 packages installed, ~250MiB node_modules

Profilbild von Hayden
Haydenvor 4 Monaten

I’ll need to split it up lol 😂

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Guillermo Rauchvor 4 Monaten

Nice

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dotta 📎vor 4 Monaten

I need this so bad for Paperclip

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Anthony Shewvor 4 Monaten

chat hes done it again

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max.berlinvor 4 Monaten

Would be sick to have file caching built in

Profilbild von Hayden
Haydenvor 4 Monaten

I’ll look into it 👀

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max.berlinvor 4 Monaten

I hacked together a similar structure (not as a nice sdk haha) and had a file index in postgres, with a warm store on nvme for when it's there are very heavy writes my agents and async persistance to hdd and s3 with consolidated snapshots. Would be sick to have it done right by someone.

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Vincent Voyervor 4 Monaten

Thank you for including Blob in here, I bet @elliotdauber and @FalcoAgustin will be happy to answer/help on anything Blob related. They have been cooking recently :)

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Botir Khaltaevvor 4 Monaten

@ether_sh You can tell bros worked at vercel

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Dawidvor 4 Monaten

ai sdk I see you

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Christoffer Bjelkevor 4 Monaten

Epic

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Sébastien Chopinvor 4 Monaten

Very cool!

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nicklasvor 4 Monaten

orm for storage 🙌

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f1shy-devvor 4 Monaten

oh my god

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Cameron Youngbloodvor 4 Monaten

he’s done it again

Profilbild von Hayden
Haydenvor 4 Monaten

Another proxy SDK

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Cameron Youngbloodvor 4 Monaten

yet so beautiful

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.skratch.dot.vor 4 Monaten

nice! i've been wanting something similar. i'll have to look into how easy it would be to add a adapter

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Kartikvor 4 Monaten

Thanks for this was looking for a similar solution here.

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ethan steininger 🔎vor 4 Monaten

what'd you use to make this gangster animation?

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

that was @remotion + Codex 🙏

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Matthew Banaagvor 4 Monaten

built my own version of this during a GCP/AWS migration, the extraction is where it gets painful

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Dakvor 4 Monaten

i thought we had Bun for this? kidding, kinda haha

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

Need to look into this! 👀

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Dakvor 4 Monaten

bit of a joke reference to this haha this looks like awesome work, i will be checking files-sdk out asap! ty @haydenbleasel 🤘

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Mohak Bajajvor 4 Monaten

Another good use of tokens spotted.

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Mohak Bajajvor 4 Monaten

I would rather ask for openai plus 🙂

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Utkarsh Singhvor 4 Monaten

solid move. unifying storage like this can save a ton of headaches when juggling multiple providers.

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Pochivor 4 Monaten

unified storage sdks live or die on the escape hatch. love that its First class here...

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Mustafa Ergisivor 4 Monaten

One API across S3, R2 and Drive is the storage primitive I've been duct-taping with adapters for the last year. Web-standards IO is the right call for the SDK shape.

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Alexandre Trotelvor 4 Monaten

finally

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Jetvor 4 Monaten

@BurnedChris

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

@BurnedChris He owes me a round of beers if this hits 1K likes btw

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Ovais Tariqvor 4 Monaten

Very cool

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rbbydotdevvor 4 Monaten

siiiiickkk i needed this

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BISMIT PANDAvor 4 Monaten

Does it have support for presigned urls?

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

Yep there’s a presignedUploadUrl() function

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BISMIT PANDAvor 4 Monaten

Wow. This is great!

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MMIKvor 4 Monaten

Damn, it's so useful 🔥

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Anilvor 4 Monaten

sounds cool, i love when stuff simplifies things like that 🙌

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mahirvor 4 Monaten

this gonna be fun to give to my agents

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

upload this file make no mistakes

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Drinvor 4 Monaten

holy cow ure in OpenAI now

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Tochivor 4 Monaten

Seems similar to the mirage storage layer @zechengzh

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

@zechengzh post a link! would love to check it out

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Tochivor 4 Monaten

@zechengzh I think you would find it pretty interesting. Unification for agents

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Tanishq (tk)vor 4 Monaten

cool sdk but how did u generate this launch video

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Haydenvor 4 Monaten

That was @Remotion and Codex 🫡

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Tanishq (tk)vor 4 Monaten

@Remotion wild

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Soham Dattavor 4 Monaten

love you for this! ❤️

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Dan Shipper 📧

15,645 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

how to use firecrawl to give your AI eyes and actually build startups that outperform 99% of apps: 1. your AI is smart but blind. it can't go to a website, read a page, or grab data on its own. firecrawl fixes that. you put in a URL. you get back clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots. feed it to any model. 2. three lines of code. that's it. no proxies. no anti-bot detection. no custom scrapers that break when a site changes. one API call. clean data back in seconds. works on 98%+ of sites. 3. firecrawl has six core capabilities: scrape a single page. crawl an entire site. map all URLs on a domain. search google and return full content. an agent endpoint where you describe what you want and it goes and finds it. and a browser sandbox where AI controls a real browser like filling forms, clicking buttons, handles logins. 4. the agent endpoint is wild. you can say "find all of YC's winter 24 dev tool companies and their founders and emails" and get back structured data. or "compare pricing tiers across stripe, square, and paypal" and get a side-by-side table. 5. the browser sandbox lets your AI stay logged in across sessions, navigate pagination, watch live as it browses. this is computer use without building the infrastructure yourself. 6. think of it in layers. every builder needs: an agent harness (claude code, cursor, codex), a search layer (perplexity, exa), a web data layer (firecrawl), an ops brain (obsidian, notion), and an outbound stack. the web data layer is the one most people are sleeping on. 7. this is the AWS moment for web data. in 2006 building a web app meant buying servers and managing racks. AWS said one API call, use our servers. some of the biggest companies of the last decade were built on that. firecrawl is doing the same thing for web data in 2026. 8. the framework i'd use for coming up with startup ideas building with clean data: take a massive horizontal platform. rebuild it for one niche using firecrawl. the vertical version always wins because people want specific, not generic. price for outcome. 9. a year ago firecrawl posted a job listing that said "please only apply if you're an AI agent." content creator agents. customer support agents. junior dev agents. it looked weird. it was a signal for where this is all going. the people who understand how to get clean web data, wrap it around an LLM, and package it as a product are the the ones with a 12-month head start. i use Firecrawl with Idea Browser . once you see what's possible with structured web data, you can't unsee it. episode is live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 (full breakdown there) i tried to explain this as clear as possible for even the non technical. send it to a builder friend. watch

GREG ISENBERG

135,254 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨BREAKING: An open-source agentic video production system just dropped. 11 pipelines, 49 tools, and a full product ad produced for $0.69 total. It's called OpenMontage. And it's not a text-to-video tool. It's a full production orchestration system where your AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf) becomes the director. Describe what you want in plain language. The agent researches, scripts, generates assets, edits, and renders the final video. Here's what the pipeline actually does: → Live web research first: 15-25+ searches across YouTube, Reddit, news sites before writing a single word of script → 12 video generation providers: Kling, Runway Gen-4, Google Veo 3, MiniMax, plus local GPU options (WAN 2.1, Hunyuan, CogVideo) → 8 image generation providers: FLUX, Google Imagen 4, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion locally → 4 TTS providers: ElevenLabs, Google (700+ voices), OpenAI, and Piper offline for free → WhisperX word-level subtitles burned in automatically → Remotion for React-based animated composition with spring physics, transitions, TikTok-style captions → Budget governance: cost estimate before execution, per-action approval above $0.50, hard cap at $10 Here's the wildest part: One product ad. 4 AI-generated images, TTS narration, royalty-free music, word-level subtitles, Remotion data visualizations. Total cost: $0.69. Zero manual asset work. Works with zero API keys too. Piper narrates locally, Pexels/Pixabay provide free stock, Remotion animates everything. No spend required to start. 100% Open Source. AGPL v3 License. (Link in the comments)

Guri Singh

112,201 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten