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Products that do what Stohr does

Your server, your files. Share with anyone. Pool with peers.

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    Open source alternative to AWS

    2024 · ubicloud.com

  2. 2BI

    For the last month or so I've been working on bewCloud, and today I'm making its source code public and open! Right now, the Dashboard (URLs + freeform notes), News (RSS/Atom/JSON feeds), and Contacts (CardDav) are working. If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear it. Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!

    2024 · bewcloud.com

  3. 3OS

    I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help. OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in. What works today: fetch, KV, Postgres bindings, S3/R2, cron scheduling, crypto.subtle. Self-hosting is a single docker-compose file + Postgres. Would love feedback on the architecture and what feature you'd want next.

    Jan 2026 · openworkers.com

  4. 4SP

    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

  5. 5IB

    I created a 100% Open source Company-wide Self-hosted File Sharing Solution for Teams Recently, I wanted to share HD images and video files with my graphic designer. She’s exceptional at her craft but isn’t familiar with AWS S3 So, I got an idea and built this. Github Repo: https://github.com/rohitg00/s3-file-share-for-free Detailed Guide: https://ghumare64.medium.com/i-built-a-company-wide-self-hos...

    2024 · s3-file-share-for-free-35n2u.kinsta.app

  6. 6

    Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE

    Feb 2026

  7. 7SS
  8. 8

    Store and serve any type of digital content

    2021

  9. 9
    Upstash233

    Serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka

    2022

  10. 10

    Embeddable file uploader for Box, Dropbox, Gdrive, and more

    2022

  11. 11
    ShareUrl213

    Share your accounts without giving out your password 🤫

    2018

  12. 12

    Free anonymous decentralized cloud storage for everyone

    2021

  13. 13SP

    This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1/ It uses Fly.io[0], which can automatically pause your database after all connections are released (and start it again when new connections join). 2/ It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 / Decoupled Storage[2]. 3/ It uses Tigris[3], Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage. Oriole will automatically backup the data to Tigris using background workers. I wouldn't recommend using this in production, but I think it's in a good spot to provoke some discussion and ideas. You can get it running…

    2024 · github.com

  14. 14FI
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    Storj81

    Decentralized file storage using a blockchain (pre-launch)

    2014

  16. 16

    Reduce image loading time by offloading media to the cloud.

    Nov 2025

  17. 17

    Private and secure file sharing and cloud storage solution

    2022

  18. 18
    Sherly66

    Private cloud storage behind your personal firewall.

    2014

  19. 19SL

    S2 was on HN for our intro blog post a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42480105). S2 started out as a serverless API — think S3, but for streams. The idea of streams as a cloud storage primitive resonated with a lot of folks, but not having an open source option was a sticking point for adoption – especially from projects that were themselves open source! So we decided to build it: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2 s2-lite is MIT-licensed, written in Rust, and uses SlateDB (https://slatedb.io) as its storage engine. SlateDB is an…

    Jan 2026 · github.com

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    Simple and easy file uploads for React, use your S3 bucket

    Nov 2025

  21. 21VA

    Hi HN, I'm Adriano, one of the makers of Vaultrice. I'm excited (and a little nervous!) to share what we've been building. For years, we found ourselves in a frustrating loop: whenever we needed a simple real-time feature—like a "who's online" list, a collaborative app, or just sharing state between a marketing site and our main app — we'd end up spending days setting up the same stack or discarded to do it. Setting it up, it always involved wiring together a database, a WebSocket server, an API, and managing the connection state. It felt like massive overkill for what we were trying to…

    2025 · vaultrice.com

  22. 22BC

    I've decided to bite the bullet and release Bitbox.co and get some feedback. I've been coding for years and one of the things I constantly see companies do is write and rewrite a document storage system, so I decided to write one for them. Bitbox.co uses cloud storage (currently Azure) to store documents but can be coded to use any cloud service. Documents can be public or private and URLs to that document can be used directly in HTML. There are currently a list of WebAPIs for developers to use as a tool, or build an entire system around. This is an MVP and it's simple. Upload a file, get a…

    2018

  23. 23DP
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    Stor82

    Secure cloud storage that's fast, simple and reliable.

    Jan 2026

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