statik allows you to embed a directory of static files into your Go binary to be later served from an http.FileSystem. Is this a crazy idea? No, not necessarily. If you're building a tool that has a Web component, you typically want to serve some images, CSS and JavaScript. You like the comfort of distributing a single binary, so you don't want to mess with deploying them elsewhere. If your static files are not large in size and will be browsed by a few people, statik is a solution you are looking for. WWW: https://github.com/rakyll/statik