Mastodawn

Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox.

Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative
- Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local)
- BYOB (Bring your own bucket)
- Virtual file system
- QMD Search plugin

https://locker.dev

Locker | Open-Source File Storage Platform

Self-hostable file storage. Upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure.

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dewey 1d ago

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced.

So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

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Tepix

On the other hand when a Dropbox user shares a file with you these days, the nudges have so gotten out of hand that it's a pain to use.