A two-week file app became a three-year product
TheFile.Ninja started as a small personal project for a modern dual-pane file manager for Windows, inspired by . The first usable version was expected to take about two weeks.
Three years later, it is still being built and has grown into something closer to a programmable for files. It connects with so search results can be opened and used like normal folders instead of disappearing in a temporary results window.
Searches can also be saved as live , such as files larger than 10 GB, files changed in the past week, source files matching a name pattern, or files spread across several indexed drives. The product now includes more than 400 Lua APIs and backups.
Key points
- TheFile.Ninja began as a Windows dual-pane file manager.
- The planned two-week project became a three-year build.
- search results can behave like normal folders.
- Live keep matching file lists updated automatically.
- The product now has 400+ Lua APIs and backups.