Tim Mikeladze
Tim Mikeladze is an independent software developer and creator who builds open-source packages and ships side projects for fun. His work spans React/TypeScript tooling, data infrastructure, developer tools, and small web applications.
At a Glance
- Frontend and React developers
- TypeScript and Node.js developers
- Teams building local-first or offline-capable web applications
- Developers working with browser file systems and OPFS
- +2 more
AI Tools by Tim Mikeladze
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use-fs
React Hook for File System Access
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Latest News
Released use-fs 2.0.0, adding OPFS watching and a rebuilt live-watcher documentation experience
Updated use-fs CI/deployment setup and dependency/toolchain configuration for current pnpm, Node, Next, Storybook, Biome, and TypeScript versions
Rewrote the use-fs hook into focused modules and added a 78-test suite with correctness and performance fixes
Moved the use-fs docs site into the pnpm workspace and made the demo run against the local package
Products & Services
An MIT-licensed React hook for watching, reading, writing, creating, deleting, filtering, and polling files in a user-selected local directory or browser origin private file system (OPFS).
A drop-in or customizable React toolbar for annotating UIs and capturing selectors, computed styles, React component trees, and screenshots as an agent-ready prompt, with MCP handoff.
A TypeScript real-time sync engine for keeping a server-side database synchronized with offline-first browser clients, with optimistic writes, HLC conflict resolution, and WebSocket, SSE, or polling transports.
PostgreSQL audit trails with trigger-based change tracking, search, revert, a REST API, a dashboard, and automated S3 archival.
Market Position
Tim's work is positioned as focused, open-source developer tooling rather than an enterprise software company. use-fs differentiates from broader File System Access wrappers such as GoogleChromeLabs/browser-fs-access and file-system-access by providing a React hook, continuous directory watching, file diffs/callbacks, write operations, filters, and a unified local-directory/OPFS model; other projects target narrower workflows such as Git automation, API conversion, data synchronization, or small creative apps.
Founding Story
The official site presents this as Tim's personal practice rather than a separately incorporated company: he began coding in 2006 and builds open-source packages and side projects for fun. The projects are published under his GitHub identity and the Lines of Code site.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open-source software and independently published side projects; use-fs is distributed as an MIT-licensed npm package and its documentation/demo is available on the web.
Target Markets
- Frontend and React developers
- TypeScript and Node.js developers
- Teams building local-first or offline-capable web applications
- Developers working with browser file systems and OPFS
- Data and backend engineers using PostgreSQL, S3, ArangoDB, GraphQL, or time-series data
- Indie developers and hobbyists building web apps and creative tools
- Browser-based editors and local-first applications that need to read or write real files
- Caches, scratch workspaces, drafts, and WASM databases backed by OPFS
- React applications that monitor a project directory and re-render on file changes
- Developer productivity and CI tooling for Git, GitHub, Next.js, TypeScript, and package publishing
- Offline-first browser clients synchronized with server-side databases
- PostgreSQL auditability and S3 archival