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.
Probably rough around the edges but it works for me. WPF, SQLite, runs in the tray. If you like it, please give an upvote on Product Hunt for me. I'm searching for a job and this is a way for me to get noticed!
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