Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive • Hacker News Board

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by politelemon » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC

unstyledcontent wrote: post #15

How does it make money? Couldn't find any about us page or explanation. As we all know,if it's free, you're the product.

This soundbite really needs to go away. It and its counterexamples don't apply in any significant measure. You can pay and still be the product, and that is often the case.

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by pas » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:39 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #6

Zero percent chance I will ever trust my critical data to a mongo-backed service, personally. With clients some of them have already made this bad decision; with my own personal files I get to avoid it.

why? since WiredTiger is the default storage engine it works

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by javatuts » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:39 AM UTC

unstyledcontent wrote: post #15

How does it make money? Couldn't find any about us page or explanation. As we all know,if it's free, you're the product.

I’m not sure, but if major companies start using it, they’ll definitely find a way to make money from it.

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by love2read » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:42 AM UTC

Cool, who's the audience?

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by jedimastert » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:42 AM UTC

edweis wrote: post #11

Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?

An SCP or FTP client maybe?

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC

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Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by gregoriol » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:48 AM UTC

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Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by gregoriol » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:52 AM UTC

g0rsky wrote: post #4

Does it have mobile clients?

It's really not clear: they seem to show a mobile app (https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3536-3661-4363-b433-35353561...) but there are no links to app stores anywhere, seems like they ended up on HN too early, maybe we should let them some time to get their stuff together

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by fullstop » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:53 AM UTC

gregoriol wrote: post #27

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Plenty of people throughout the world use Telegram. Their platform handles large groups quite well.

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by dangus » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:54 AM UTC

edweis wrote: post #11

Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?

Can you name a single Google Drive clone that doesn’t use a database?

Would love to see your source code for your take on this product.