FlintSH/Flare: A modern, lightning-fast file sharing platform built for self-hosting. Created with support for ShareX, KDE Spectacle, Flameshot, and easy to set up.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Universal Screenshot Integration

• 🔒 Secure & Private - Role-based permissions, private files, and password protection
• 💾 Flexible Storage - Local filesystem and S3-compatible storage support
• 🖼️ Universal Preview - Preview images, videos, PDFs, and code with syntax highlighting
• 🔍 Smart Search - Search by filename, OCR content, and date with filters
• 📱 Modern UI - Clean, responsive interface built with shadcn/ui - easily customizable
• ⚙️ Configurable

• 📊 Admin Dashboard - Usage metrics, user management, and system configuration
• 👥 User Management - Role assignment, storage quotas, and content moderation
• 🔗 URL Shortener - Custom short URLs under your domain with click tracking
• 📝 Pastebin - Code and text sharing with syntax highlighting
• 🤖 OCR Processing - Automatic text extraction from images uploaded
• 🔌 Rich Embeds - Content embeds naturally on all your social media platforms.

🚀 Quick Start

Flare is quick to deploy—you only need a PostgreSQL server and Docker. Choose one of these options:

Railway (One-Click)

Click the button below to deploy Flare on Railway. Once deployed, just set your authentication secret and create your admin account.

Docker Deployment (Self-Hosted)

1. Install docker.io and docker-compose

1. Create docker-compose.yml with the following template:

version: '3.8'
services:
     db:
       image: postgres:17-alpine   # lightweight, recent version; 16 or 15 also fine
       container_name: flare-db
       restart: unless-stopped
       environment:
         POSTGRES_USER: flareuser          # change if you want
         POSTGRES_PASSWORD: your-secure-password-here   #  ^f^p CHANGE THIS to something strong
         POSTGRES_DB: flaredb              # database name Flare will use
       volumes:
         - ./postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data   # persistent storage
       healthcheck:
         test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U flareuser -d flaredb"]
         interval: 10s
         timeout: 5s
         retries: 5
flare:
       image: flintsh/flare:latest
       container_name: flare-app
       restart: unless-stopped
       ports:
         - "3000:3000"                     # change left side if you want different host port
       environment:
         DATABASE_URL: postgresql://flareuser:your-secure-password-here@db:5432/flaredb?schema=public
         NEXTAUTH_SECRET: securestuffhere   # generate with: openssl rand -base64 32
         NEXTAUTH_URL: http://localhost:3000     # or https:// if using reverse proxy
       volumes:
         - ./uploads:/app/uploads          # where files/screenshots/videos are stored
       depends_on:
         db:
           condition: service_healthy

1. Run docker-compose up -d

1. Open http://localhost:3000 to complete the setup and create your admin account.

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