For 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.
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
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Same 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
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#163The 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.
We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.
Except that for macOS it uses the FileProvider Framework. So files that are rarely accessed get deleted from your local storage and synced back automagically when you access them. Saving space on your disk because on mac you can’t upgrade your ssd without a soldering iron.
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#165The magic of Dropbox lies in its local app and sync, this is a nicer webinterface for s3 storage?
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being excited about cloud storage is that on mobile, from what I can tell, none of the major providers care about "folder that syncs" experience. You only get an app that lets you view remote storage. The o…
On iOS, Dropbox integrates with the Files app. Since that was added a couple of years ago, I rarely have to open the Dropbox app itself. About the only time is when I want to restore an earlier version of a file. You can also mark complete folders as “Make Available Offline”, which will keep their contents updated, though I don’t really use that personally.
The biggest benefit of the ios dropbox app is to search through the contents of all files. When accessing from the files app that is not possible, unfortunately.
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Can I have a link to the cardboard box .pdf template please?
There, 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...
not 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.
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#168Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#169The actual best open source Dropbox replacement already exists: SeaFile. Too bad their website is terrible.
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.
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In fairness, you can also have that experience with Microsoft OneDrive.
What experience?
A 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.