Zm441d 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 threadovaistariq
The critical part of Dropbox is not just the storage layer but a combination of their client and server. Even small things like how do you handle conflicting writes to the same file from multiple threads, matter a great deal for data consistency and durability.
Apr 7 at 12:59pmWeb
Show threaddangus1d ago

A lot of the backend bucket providers can handle file versioning.

I too would like the answer to this concern because the features page doesn’t mention it. I want to be able to handle file version history.

I’m currently using Filen which I find very reasonable and, critically, it has a Linux client. But I wish it was faster and I wish the local file explorer integration was more like Dropbox where it is seamless to the OS rather than the current setup where you mount a network share.