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

#1
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

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

#3
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.

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

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post #3

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.

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.

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

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post #3

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.

Isn't that the scenario for Nextcloud?
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