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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
- sumeno 6mo agoWhy wouldn't I trust a vibe coded app that has existed for 1 week with all my important data?
- Zm44 6mo agoBecause you can self-host it all and validate the source yourself!
- bs7280 6mo agoHow can I practically verify 2TB of a life's worth of files while guaranteeing I won't have data loss due to some edge cases and race conditions that delete my data. Every time I've created my own backup script I realized knowing what to delete and when is not easy. IMO the practical solution to this is to just pay for more storage (within reason).
- throwaway-aws9 6mo agoHow can you guarantee you'll have access to your 2TB Google Drive when they ban your Google account for breaching terms or accidentally tripping a circuit breaker across one of their offerings? Yup, pay more but get 2 providers.
- ryandrake 6mo agoOr just get a 2TB hard drive for $30 and put your data there. For the cost of storage, you might as well buy three of them.
- bs7280 6mo agoThis is unironically why I do not depending on google for products this important. I do have premium google drive as I needed barely over 15gb, but my main cloud storage is dropbox. A YT comment I made 10 years ago can't break Dropbox's TOS, and since premium storage is their whole business, they will take the product more seriously. I also have a 14TB RAID 5 NAS at home. And my Desktop PC has 6TB of RAID 5 (had that first, mostly used for video games these days).
- yoz-y 6mo agoA backup is not something I fear of losing access to because by definition it’s a copy. However I am more afraid of my data being exfiltrated and imo there is a more risk of that with a “vibe coded 1 person 1 week old” app rather than any of the major providers.
- yabutlivnWoods 6mo agoLook at it this way; all those reel to reels of grandpas and VHS tapes of dads are in the trash now. They too thought they were storing important history. Only for their heirs to bin their stuff in order to focus on their lives. Be less needy. No one cares anyway.
- bs7280 6mo agoI'll never forget when my Grandpa died 20 years ago, the first thing my dad did - even before telling us - was look for photos. His siblings did the same and they came up with a collage of around 30 photos I had never seen before that gave me a small glimpse of the highlights of his life. My other grandpa, controversially used a big chunk of their wedding money on a good camera. They traveled the world and lived abroad for several years right before and after my mom and aunt were born. Because of this, we are all able to see such a fascinating and meticulous glimpse into their lives. Each photo tells a story even if the story is boring, but I really appreciated the small details. Even random pictures of cars that my Grandpa thought were cool. Or the mean guard dog they had in Taiwan while it was still a puppy. Or my mom on the Trans Siberian Railroad in the middle of the Cold War. These stories and my own appreciation of photography have made me realize how valuable every photo I have is, and I'm willing to put in effort to save them. When I'm old and dying of dementia, I'll be able to look back at my life in incredible detail one last time. Even the dumb meme's I decided to save will tell a story. I still have a deep appreciation for living in the moment and knowing not everything should be captured, but we live in an era where I have a really good camera in my pocket at all times, and the ability to store all those photos forever cheaply.
- jmalicki 6mo agoHow can you practically verify that OneDrive won't do this either?
- bs7280 6mo agoI will never use one drive even if they paid me. I use Dropbox + Homelab NAS with RAID 5 + old desktop PC with a RAID 5 drive. I have a lot of RAW photos to keep.
- stronglikedan 6mo ago> How can I practically verify 2TB of a life's worth of files while guaranteeing I won't have data loss due to some edge cases and race conditions that delete my data. Same with literally every other backup software. Have two, and test restorations regularly. It's not easy, but nothing worth it when you need it ever is.
- HashIntegrity 6mo ago[dead]
- pjc50 6mo agoIn fairness, you can also have that experience with Microsoft OneDrive.
- haswell 6mo agoWhat experience?
- verdverm 6mo agoVibe coded / sloppy projects
- haswell 6mo agoThere are plenty of reasons to criticize OneDrive and I personally would not use it. But I think comparing it with a weekend vibe coded self hosted project is a bit of a stretch.
- verdverm 6mo agoI think many people are just looking at the outcomes. Slop is now being retroactively applied to human produced software as well, as a new adjective for software generally. There is also sentiment / understanding that Microslop has been pushing their devs to do the ai thing and that it is resulting in more downtime and bugs. This is not limited to one company and more an artifact of the hype cycle. If anything, it's worse with the corporate product because there should be more checks and balances, but here we are.
- serf 6mo agoI don't. Microsoft has zero goodwill from me with regards to software quality or pro-consumer business moves. I will forever assume that microsoft product is 1) technically broken 2) trying to upsell and 3) probably required by some esoteric software suite, which is the only reason a sane human would put up with it.
- pjc50 6mo agoA recent (last year?) Windows update moved a lot of people's Documents folder into OneDrive, without asking. In some cases people lost data, in others it was a nuisance as all sorts of embedded or saved paths broke.
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- yabutlivnWoods 6mo agoWhy wouldn't I trust a SaaS app that is charging me and selling my important data? ...most of the software industry is one rung above back alley smack dealer when it comes to the kind of business they run. Most software developers are bartering for food and shelter. They're not curing cancer or building an essential new bridge for a community.
- maxloh 6mo agoSpaceDrive might offer a more comprehensive and better-maintained version of this, though it is not primarily advertised for this kind of use. https://v2.spacedrive.com/ https://v2.spacedrive.com/
- pluc 6mo agoI'd love a local offline alternative, maybe I'll get AI to build it for me
- dwedge 6mo agoNot trying to be snarky but what is offline dropbox more than a directory?
- atrus 6mo agoSyncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!
- pprotas 6mo agoSamba share? Old technology still works, even if it is old!
- axelthegerman 6mo agoWorks so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not. And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups. I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.
- pprotas 6mo agoiOS has native support for SMB in the Files app Turning on SMB is usually just a click of a button, even macOS supports it Any user technical enough to be able to set up an S3 bucket, Syncthing, Nextcloud or this "Locker" tool from OP can also set up an SMB share I was responding to the above thread, where sharing files on an offline network is being discussed. Backups were not mentioned as a requirement.
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- dewey 6mo agoThe 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.
- Tepix 6mo agoOn 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.
- layer8 6mo agoThat’s only an issue if you use Dropbox for sharing with non-Dropbox users, rather than for syncing files across devices and accounts, and having an extra versioned copy in the cloud.
- Tepix 6mo agoAnd your point is... everyone should have Dropbox?
- computably 6mo agoI'm pretty sure their point is Dropbox is better as personal storage than file sharing between users.
- nolroz 6mo agoriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
- lossyalgo 6mo agoThere are other less annoying alternatives such as WeTransfer.
- CAmosisKilduff 6mo agoIsn't that the scenario for Nextcloud?
- Eikon 6mo agoSee also: https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS Doesn’t require an external database (just a s3 bucket) and is a single binary. A webui is shipping in the next few days.
- ledauphin 6mo agothis doesn't seem like it allows multiple writers?
- vgr-land 6mo agoLooks like a good light weight solution to front object storage with a front end and auth. One suggestion is to add the license to the repo. The readme says License: MIT, but there’s no license file.
- aitchnyu 6mo agoWhat happens if the server disappears permanently and only the bucket is up?
- noja 6mo agoWhy not just use an FTP server?
- PunchyHamster 6mo agocoz FTP is garbage protocol that should die 2 decades ago
- 1a527dd5 6mo agoAbsolutely not. The value isn't in the cloud storage. The value is in the client (DropBox in my case) seamlessly working across all my devices.
- vachina 6mo agoThis sounds like a problem already solved without the need for proprietary clients.
- Saphyel 6mo agoS3 is costly and carries significant political baggage. For a better alternative, run MinIO on a cloud provider of your choice, or stick with a secure option like Proton Drive.
- ketzu 6mo ago> S3 is costly > run MinIO When people say "s3", they mean "any s3 compatible storage" in my experience, not "amazon s3 specifically" or just "s3 as a protocol".
- wiether 6mo agoSuggesting MinIO as an alternative to something with "significant political baggage" seems weird given the recent rug pull?
- b3lvedere 6mo agoI use a cheap alternative to the 3-2-1 rule[1]. I use a mini pc with small smb shares (less than 1 TB). This thing is on 24/7, but runs energy efficient. When it's time to move data, i copy it to a Synology NAS that holds lots of TB's. Then it's also time to backup the really important stuff, which goes to a Hetzner Storage Box[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
- randomtoast 6mo agoThe repository only exist for seven days and was likely written by Claude code, which makes it not very trustworthy for storing personal data.
- filleokus 6mo agoNeat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage. 1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at AWS/GCP only in storage, plus traffic and operations. R2 is slightly cheaper and includes traffic. Compared to e.g a Google AI plan where you get 5 TB storage for the same price (25 USD/month) + Gemini Pro thrown in.
- nhumrich 6mo agoBackblaze is a lot more affordable
- noveltyaccount 6mo agoYes, and they have features like default soft delete with hard delete after x days that makes it a very compelling backup choice (guard against malware and mistakes). I'm a satisfied customer.
- ValentineC 6mo agoIf only they had data centres in Asia so latency would be better for me.
- TheJoeMan 6mo agoA family member has uploaded a backup of all of the family photos to Amazon Glacial Storage, on the order of a few hundred GB, and gleefully sends me screenshots of the <$1/mo charges.
- skeeter2020 6mo agoAWS Glacier is cold storage, for things like legally mandated retention that you never need to access, or for humans, say digitizing your grandma's 35mm slides. It's not the same use-case as typical file backup, with performance that's probably not acceptable if you want a file (or even a listing) <now>. Good rule of thumb: Glacier is for things that you might need but ideally will never access again.
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- HardwareLust 6mo agoJust don't spin up your machines in Bahrain or the UAE...
- jrochkind1 6mo agowhat am i missing?
- bovermyer 6mo agoIran made those AWS data centers... unhappy. The comment is disingenuous, though, since Locker doesn't need AWS S3 to function.
- HardwareLust 6mo agoIt was meant as humor, not technical advice lol.
- 8fingerlouie 6mo agoProbaly this : https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1rl8rxw/aws_datacenter_in_dubai_was_hit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1rl8rxw/aws_datacenter...
- data-ottawa 6mo agoIt’s a reference to Iran attacking AWS data centres in those countries.
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- kristianc 6mo agoWe've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- ryangittins 6mo agoHah, 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.
- bitexploder 6mo agoAt least, here the biases are well known. I have been here since the beginning as well. :)
- giarc 6mo agoI think a big reason is you are not notified when someone replies to your comment. It reduces heated back and forth arguments.
- ryangittins 6mo agoInteresting, I hadn't considered that! You're probably right.
- Xeoncross 6mo agoInstead, the reply/rebuttal almost always comes from a new person. It makes nice reading when you have 6 people in an argument keeping each other honest vs 2.
- Tade0 6mo agoAlso submissions with more comments than upvotes are looked into, if not outright automatically flagged.
- PunchyHamster 6mo ago
- npodbielski 6mo agoI bought 35$/mo 16TB server from OVH. I am running 2 replicas of Garage, one on this server. I am using this for backup for now but probably I will also move my Nextcloud files there and websites. This is fine for now and less pricey than any S3 provider I was able to find.
- chirau 6mo agoHonest question, what do you need/use 16TB for? 4K video?
- whalesalad 6mo agoLots of files with 2160p.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.DV.HDR.H.265-FLUX[TGx] in the name.
- weberer 6mo agoBack in my day, we downloaded 20mb episodes of Naruto in .rmvb format and liked it. Uphill!
- tskulbru 6mo agoboth ways!
- npodbielski 6mo agoNo, incremental backups of few machines for few years takes a lot of space.
- npodbielski 6mo agoI already am using almost 4tb just for backup. 2TB for all of my files in NAS. As I wrote above I will most probably move my Nextcloud instance storage there so I will be already using 6TB of storage. With built-in instant replication between nodes in garage I should have instant backup of my files. Right now I do not have time, but it would be nice to move storage all of my services there so in case of trouble with one server I could instantly spin them up on other machine by mounting S3 storage. Performance probably wont be great but if main machine will go down I will be still able to use my home automation for example on some secondary without much of a hassle. Anyway having dedicated server and backup storage for 30$/mo does not seem unreasonable.
- jrochkind1 6mo agoI wonder if it would be possible to do something like this that had transparent end-to-end encryption.
- flanked-evergl 6mo agoStop paying for clothes, make your own instead!
- bovermyer 6mo agoVery cool idea, but without background file syncing from/to my local machine, it can't replace my cloud storage provider.
- kardianos 6mo agoAnother option is https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo This is in Go, exposes both webdav and SFTP servers, with user and admin web interfaces. You can configure remotes, then compose user space from various locations for each user, some could be local, others remote.
- ks2048 6mo agoI pay Dropbox $120 per year for 2TB. No transfer fees, solid Apps, macOS integration, free APIs. How much on S3? A LOT more.
- scolson 6mo agoI think the idea is any s3 compatible api endpoint can be used. The code also clearly supports both backblaze, and more importantly, local blob storage
- hvb2 6mo agoJust saying, but this is not really fair. It's not like you use that 2TB. So you shouldn't compare it to a 2TB bucket. Most of these plans have limits to prevent abuse but they're well beyond the 'I need to care' level. Maybe you use 1TB, maybe just 10GB. As a user on this site I expect you know that a 10GB plan and a 1TB plan won't be that much different.
- hidelooktropic 6mo agoI don't know what you're talking about. I always reserve right up to the knife's edge of what I actually use.
- ks2048 6mo agoYou're right, I'm currently only using 1.1 TB out of 2.0. But saying a 10GB plan and 1TB aren't much different is crazy talk.
- 0xbadcafebee 6mo agoFwiw, 2TB on R2 is $30/month, Wasabi is $14/month, both support S3, neither have egress fees. Backblaze is $10/month for 2TB but has an egress quota after which there are fees, so Backblaze is same cost as Dropbox, minus the egress quota. If Dropbox works for you there's no reason to switch.
- voidUpdate 6mo ago"Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, pay for an S3 bucket instead"
- vitalscope 6mo agoThat is a bit like saying “Don’t use a medical analysis app, just interpret your lab results yourself.” Sure, ChatGPT can help, but to use it reliably, you still need enough medical knowledge to ask good questions and evaluate the answers.
- redat00 6mo agofunny enough the guy behind the project also has an app like that https://github.com/zmeyer44/OpenVitals https://github.com/zmeyer44/OpenVitals (and regarding contributors for all of his projects, it's mostly vibe-coded)
- Zm44 6mo agoThink of OpenVitals more as "Don't pay $300/yr for a chatGPT wrapper medical app, just use this with your existing test results for free"
- hduednxn32 6mo ago[dead]
- gargan 6mo agoMay I recommend the excellent https://s3drive.app/ https://s3drive.app/ which is compatible with S3 and also providers like Proton Drive
- rkagerer 6mo agoWhy would I want to replace my reliance on them with reliance on Amazon or another cloud provider? I'd rather control the whole stack, even if it means deploying my own hardware to one or more redundant, off-site locations. Edit: Are there robust, open source, self-hosted, S3-compliant engines out there reliable and performant enough to be the backend for this?
- sarmasamosarma 6mo ago[dead]
- evandrofisico 6mo agotake a look at https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
- okkdev 6mo agoand https://rustfs.com/ https://rustfs.com/
- vachina 6mo agoThere’s local file system as an option for storage provider. But then you still need a bazillion dependencies and a db just to manage files already on your filesystem.
- 0xbadcafebee 6mo agoThe old open source version of Minio still works
- ovaistariq 6mo agoThe 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.
- dangus 6mo agoA 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.
- JoshBlythe 6mo agothis is rlly cool
- lain98 6mo agoI use archive storage class on google cloud, to store old movies and wedding videos, pictures of old vacations. For everything else I use paid onedrive subscription. The biggest problem is user interface with s3 like storage and predictable pricing because remember you also pay for data retrieval and other storage apis, with dropbox etc you pay a fixed amount. Every year or so I roll over data into the bucket. But for infrequently accessed data its fine.
- zephyrwhimsy 6mo ago[flagged]
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- adamgordonbell 6mo agoLooks great! Feature request: Google Drive for desktop. That is the feature that gives your drive as a mounted file system that stream files as you need them. It gives me the ease of having access to a giant amount of files stored in my gdrive without having to worry about the space they take up locally nor moving files up and down. Actually, what solutions to that might already exist? I don't really use the web UI of gdrive as much as use it as a cloud disk drive.
- cjonas 6mo agoWhy does getting started have me sign up for an account vs take me to the docs to self host?
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- charles_f 6mo agoStop paying for banks, AI built this cardboard box that you can store in your toolshed instead!
- ragazzina 6mo agoCan I have a link to the cardboard box .pdf template please?
- cobbal 6mo agoTake your pick :) https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/ https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/
- charles_f 6mo agoThere, designed especially for you. Don't thank me, I'm a cardboard security expert, can do that all day long. https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template-very-secure.pdf https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template...
- genewitch 6mo agonot picking on you, specifically, but i wonder how many people could roughly draw a cardboard box template correctly. It is an easier object than a bicycle, which people routinely have issues drawing, too. generally, there's not "missing pieces" in a cardboard box.
- charles_f 6mo agoFair, that template resolves to a box but it's missing stuff like tabs to make the bottom properly stick ; and it's probably not optimal in its use of cardboard. Also it was design in a minute in draw.io to make a stranger on the internet chuckle, so lots of constraints to fulfill.
- huijzer 6mo agoBut isn’t Syncthing already open source Dropbox? Can easily use own hardware too which is very nice.
- ananandreas 6mo agoCross compatibility and easy of use is as important as price and open source
- charles_f 6mo agoI used to be excited by these kind of tools, I love to self-host stuff. When I clicked on the link, I had this hesitation, suspecting "maybe it's LLM generated". And sure enough, coming back to HN, description says it is. File sync can't be that hard! Enters the first 3 way conflict and everything explodes. Dont misunderstand me, this is a cool idea. But if your rotation time between ideating a project and pushing it to HN is a week, you don't understand the problem space. You didn't go through the pain of realizing its complexity. You didn't test things properly with your own data, lost a bunch of it and fixed the issues, or realized it was a bad idea and abandoned it. I have no guarantee you'll still be there in a month to patch any vulnerabilities. Not that any open-source project had these kind of guarantees until now, but the effort invested in them to get to that point was at least a secondary indicator about who built it, their dedication, and their understanding of the space.
- itherseed 6mo agoOk, I'll see it later but please use the 'Release' feature of GitHub. It is the easiest way to tell for your customers that a new release is out. Even GH can send notifications. Thanks.
- BorisMelnik 6mo agoI already do this with next cloud and s3, I've never once had an issue in many years
- robertclaus 6mo agoFeels like this is missing some of the key points of using generic bucket storage for me: 1. Archive pricing for really large old documents. 2. Cross-provider backups; especially for critical documents.
- pocksuppet 6mo agoWhy would I use S3 when S3 is super expensive compared to all other cloud storages?
- JackeJR 6mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676174 Dropbox is a lot more than file storage. The syncing itself has been through serious tests to characterise its behaviour. Sure, some may not like the decisions taken to direct its sync behaviour one way or another but at least all these are known through formal testing.
- mdni007 6mo agoSpme things should not be vibecoded (yet)
- NoahZuniga 6mo agoGoogle drive pricing is cheaper than S3/Google cloud storage for storage.
- nunez 6mo agoThe thing I find interesting about apps made by Claude et. al. is that they always fallback to using dotenv for configuration. I thought dotenv was on its way out! Personally, I've been using sOPs for this purpose.
- WhitneyLand 6mo agoWouldn’t this be way more expensive? Example 2TB: Google $10/mo vs S3 ~&45/mo? You could get cheaper that Google Drive with glacier tiers but that’s a different level of restrictions and still has retrieval fees.
- alde 6mo agoIf you use S3 Standard - Infrequent Access then it is $25/mo.
- conradev 6mo agoI love it! How would you position yourself relative to existing OSS products in the space like Filestash or Seafile? I'm trying to pick a solution at the moment, and the mobile experience matters a lot to me.
- carefree-bob 6mo agoYou can do a lot with cloudflare tunnels and a home mac mini. Dropbox, blogs, homebox (home inventory), hosted git. I'm a kid in a candy store playing around with this stuff.
- xnx 6mo agoFeatures I'm guessing this is missing (in no particular order): Recycle bin, Sharing with permissions, Editor, Versioning, Search, Partial sync, zone redundancy/backup, Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS clients
- rcvaishya 6mo agoThe way how data is handled is more of a question than where it goes
- ge96 6mo agoFunny I kept getting this "you are using 98% of your storage space" message with my 15GB so I'd be finding/deleting old attachments then eventually I was like fine I'll pay, it's like 48 cents a month or something
- _2fnr 6mo ago[flagged]
- verdverm 6mo agoSame for Drive, which has the office suite included in people's minds. I'm def looking for an alternative, taking proton for a test drive this week, because they have the office tools, which I didn't know and assume they are not as good, but hopefully good enough for my usage
- dboreham 6mo agoFor all the people pooh-poohing this, I'm very interested in this business model (bring your own provider token) and this looks to be nicely done. I'm going to try it out. In particular I want to see if it supports payload encryption for the data in S3. I'd need that to be comfortable stashing all my personal data in AWS or Wasabi.
- tobi_bsf 6mo agoThe magic of Dropbox lies in its local app and sync, this is a nicer webinterface for s3 storage?
- iamcalledrob 6mo agoThe actual best open source Dropbox replacement already exists: SeaFile. Too bad their website is terrible. https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ It's pretty magical. It nails the "online" vs "cloud only" paradigm via the SeaDrive client. I have it running on my file server, and now all my machines have access to terabytes of storage with local performance, since it can cache a subset of your content locally. And since I can run the server on my LAN, the throughput is way better than Dropbox would be too.
- hodder 6mo agoThe irony of this SHOW HN is that "just roll your own" was the classic OG critique of Dropbox before they took the space rocket to unicorn land.
- intensifier 6mo agoIsn't S3 charging money while dropbox and google drive have free plan?
- crazygringo 6mo ago"Stop paying for"? But you have to pay for your own S3 bucket as well... and it's generally several times more expensive per terabyte, though this depends on different factors. (Not to mention you might still have to pay for Google if your e.g. Gmail doesn't fit into the free tier anymore.) If this is supposed to be financially motivated, the creator seems to have it somewhat backwards.
- artk42 6mo ago> Languages JavaScript 55.2%, TypeScript 44.4%, Other 0.4% Isn't that compromises the whole purpose of the project immediatly? Moreover, any reasonably adequate dev would work on expansion of syncthing ecosystem, not inventing a rasclet instead of a wheel
- robotnikman 6mo agoThere was a similar program I used when I was working at a smaller company and built an automated backup system for their call center recordings. It basically mapped the S3 bucket to a Windows drive letter, since the PBX call recording software was running on a Windows server. It was a while ago so I can't recall the name of the program
- SergeAx 6mo agoIf you are not ready to trust a vibe-coded app with all your digital life, I recommend Filestash[1], easy to install self-hosted frontend for virtually any type of storage. Written in Go, it can be enhanced with plugins. Uses local SQLite database. I am using it with Hetzner Storage Box[2], which is insane value for money at 11 euro per 5 terabytes per month. [1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
- novoreorx 6mo agoS3 and B2 both have web UI, so if this is what your vibe app do, it's useless
- angelfangs 6mo agoI use a cheap vps + dufs. Great for drag and dropping files and have my jellyfin server pointing to those directories.
- Isolated_Routes 6mo agoWhat is the privacy architecture? I like the concept, but am curious what safeguards you have in place.
- munch-o-man 6mo agowhy would I need to sign up for something I self host?
- filipfilm1978 6mo agoIs linode supported?