Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
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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
HN · launched Apr 7, 2026 · 252 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud storage and backup management tools · 118 launches, 12 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 118 launches in cloud storage and backup management tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a Next.js/tRPC web interface acting as a self-hosted virtual file system on top of standard object storage APIs (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2).
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: S3Drive and other S3 front ends, Dropbox, Cheap VPS with dufs, Jellyfin server, Immich
Concerns raised: Retrieval costs 1.5x more expensive than HDD storage, Shallow competitive moat compared to existing solutions, S3 and B2 already have web UI, making this redundant, Why sign up for something you self-host, Privacy architecture and safeguards unclear
Feature requests: Support for Linode, Collaboration features for multiple users, Revision history with version control
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 157 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 158 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
- drive-bucket · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DriveMyMac · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FileKeepBox · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Bucket · hn · 2026-01-25 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cloudstic · hn · 2026-03-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FreeBox · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Yamdut Vault · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Ellipticc Drive · hn · 2025-10-30 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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