Zm442d ago

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.

Show threadkristianc

We've officially come full circle

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build su... | Hacker News

Apr 7 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadryangittins2d ago

Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M.

I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happened to the internet since those days, HN has managed to stay high quality without compromising.

Show threadbitexploder2d ago
At least, here the biases are well known. I have been here since the beginning as well. :)
Show threadgiarc2d ago
I think a big reason is you are not notified when someone replies to your comment. It reduces heated back and forth arguments.
Show threadPunchyHamster2d ago
this is cloud to different cloud thing not physical to cloud thing tho
Show threadbitexploder2d ago
Every so often someone is like, Dropbox isn’t that hard. Look at this amazing ZFS/whatever! So simple. Yeah, I keep paying Dropbox every year so I don’t have to think about it. I shoot a sync off to backblaze every once in a while.
Show threadfreedomben2d ago
at the risk of a comment that doesn't age well, for most people on HN I would definitely look into just using rclone. I also has a GUI for people who want that. rclone is mind-blowingly good. You can set up client-side encryption (so object storage never sees the data or even the filename) to be seamless. I'm a huge fan