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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kristianc 1d ago

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

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freedomben

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