Shashvi Lokesh

Consumer Product Obsessed!

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Ex-entrepreneur, Product Manager and currently a Masters student in Canada! I'm actively looking for a Product Management Co-Op for Fall 2026.

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Maker History

RottenFilesFiles you forget to delete, delete themselves
Jun 2026

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Joined Product HuntJune 17th, 2026

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18m ago

Sick of my own Downloads folder. Built a self-destructing file manager.

RottenFiles for Free!
You know that feeling when you download something, tell yourself you'll sort it later, and then it just lives there forever? WhatsApp PDFs, random installers, screenshots you took for one Slack message. None of it worth keeping but somehow never worth deleting either. My Downloads folder had 500 files and I genuinely didn't know what half of them were anymore.

Couldn't find a tool that did what I wanted so I built RottenFiles (GitHub). You save throwaway files to a specific folder, and they automatically delete themselves after 7 days. If you actually need something before it's gone, you click Keep and it moves wherever you want. Do nothing and it disappears.

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8h ago

RottenFiles - Files you forget to delete, delete themselves

Most "auto-delete" tools are all-or-nothing. They wipe a folder on a schedule with no way to intervene. RottenFiles tracks each file individually with its own countdown, and gives you a one-click "Keep" before it's gone. You're not trusting a script with your files; you're getting a grace period with full control. It also works with literally any app: Chrome, Discord, WhatsApp Web, Telegram etc. because it just watches a folder, no browser extension or integration required!