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I Built a Self-Hosted Image Hosting Platform in Go — and Gave It an MCP Interface

DEV Community·Beta·25 days ago
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The Backstory I spent the latter half of last year Vibe Coding — a lot. First came RelayCraft (an AI-native network traffic debugging tool, built with Tauri + Rust). Then PicFast, released more recently. PicFast is a self-hosted image hosting platform you can spin up in one Docker command. Clean management UI, multiple storage backends, ShareX integration, and a built-in MCP interface so your AI tools can actually talk to your image host. Here's how it came together. Why Build Another Image Host? If you've been around the block, you know the deal: image hosting services change policies, shut down, or start charging. Your images are on someone else's server — and that server isn't yours. With AI tools generating screenshots, document images, and visual assets constantly, images have become a real data asset. Letting someone else hold them feels... wrong. I actually looked.…

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