Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Protonet
Private cloud servers - Slack meets Dropbox in a box
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Protonet launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Heya! We're longtime lurkers and do sometimes post, today however I want to present to you with the fruits of almost 4 years of work, hacking, designing, physically building (for the record: 2 years full time). We'd love to get some feedback from you guys and feel free to give us any hints on what we could/should change, or any opinion on whether you think that'd be something you'd use. protonet.info So here's our rough plan: We love the web and the possibilities it gives us, we also love the way the cloud allows us instant and ubiquitous access to our data and apps. Now what we don't like…
2012 · its alternatives →
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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
Apr 2026 · locker.dev · its alternatives →
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Syncthing▲75Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
2014 · syncthing.net · its alternatives →
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Deis▲64Open source application platform for public & private clouds
2014 · azure.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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