We've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
this is cloud to different cloud thing not physical to cloud thing tho
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
#42Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#43The 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.
Yep. Open source Dropbox is really Nextcloud - https://nextcloud.com
Given how many fuckups sync had over lifetime of it (at one point it basically asked for re-log every day, at other it just corrupted data/didn't finish sync), no
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#44I pay Dropbox $120 per year for 2TB. No transfer fees, solid Apps, macOS integration, free APIs. How much on S3? A LOT more.
I 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
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#45Why not just use an FTP server?
coz FTP is garbage protocol that should die 2 decades ago
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#46That 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.
funny enough the guy behind the project also has an app like that https://github.com/zmeyer44/OpenVitals
(and regarding contributors for all of his projects, it's mostly vibe-coded)
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#47Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#48May I recommend the excellent https://s3drive.app/ which is compatible with S3 and also providers like Proton Drive
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#49Why 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?
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#50The 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.