# ashayas/icloud-s3

> A satirical Rust server that implements the S3 XML REST protocol but stores objects inside lossless RGB PNG carrier images in iCloud Shared Photo Albums, exploiting Apple's policy that shared album media doesn't count against iCloud quota.

- Magnitude: 5.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 174 total · +53 stars measured 2026-10-31, 10:09–13:38 UTC, ≈ 82 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Other · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-10-30 · Last push: 2026-10-31
- GitHub: https://github.com/ashayas/icloud-s3 · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ashayas/icloud-s3

## Useful for

- Point the unmodified aws s3 CLI at the local endpoint to test S3-compatible operations
- Encode a file into a PNG carrier and decode it back via the CLI without running the server
- Run the built-in benchmark comparing throughput against Cloudflare R2

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-31 (UTC), 10:09–13:38: 121 → 174 stars (+53). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +82 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 174 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 39 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @RandyMcMillan (519 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 13
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 60 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 19

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-30 … 2026-10-31: 38, 53

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-31 13:48 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.