Case study · Our own product

StarHeart

An image and file host that gets out of the way: one gesture to upload, and everything else waits until you need it.

Role
Product, design, build, hosting
Stack
PHP, MySQL
Status
In beta
beta.starhe.art
Screenshot
StarHeart does not allow embedding, so this is a screenshot. The real thing is one click away.
The problem

Most file hosts make you find the upload page before you can do anything.

A form, a button, a file picker, a progress page. For something people do dozens of times a day, every step is friction — and the friction is where people give up and paste a screenshot into chat instead.

The approach

The whole page is the drop zone.

Drop a file anywhere, paste it, or tap the logo — that is the entire upload flow. Albums, profiles and account settings sit behind it, and moderation tools and stale-upload cleanup run out of sight so the host stays fast and tidy.

One gestureDrop, paste or tap. No upload page, no form, nothing to learn. The page listens everywhere.
Albums and profilesGroup uploads into albums and share a profile, with settings tucked away rather than up front.
Kept cleanAdmin moderation and a scheduled cleanup of stale uploads keep the host healthy without anyone babysitting it.
Ravestars — ravestars.cc, captured Sept 2026
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