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Products that do what WinCse – Access Object Storage in Windows Explorer (Now AWS, GCP, etc.) does
I previously introduced WinCse on Hacker News (original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947599). At the time, it only supported AWS S3, but this update adds compatibility with GCP, OCI, and more object storage providers! Object storages tested for compatibility: - AWS S3 - Google Cloud Storage - OCI Object Storage - Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage - Cloudflare R2 - Backblaze B2 - Storj DCS - IDrive e2 With WinCse, you can access and manage object storage directly from Windows Explorer as if it were local files. If you encounter any bugs, please report them on GitHub. I…
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WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with Windows Explorer. Utilizing WinFsp and the AWS SDK, WinCse allows you to treat S3 buckets as part of your local file system, making file management simpler. The application is currently in development, with plans for additional features and improvements.
2025 · github.com
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We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…
2025 · github.com
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2024 · github.com
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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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Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytime I use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one! The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek
Jun 2026 · mercek.dev
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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
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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
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An Alfred workflow that lets you instantly open Google Cloud services or search GCP resources—fast, simple, and right from your Alfred.
2025 · github.com
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2017 · blog.minio.io
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2024 · github.com
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Hey everyone, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil. Archil is transforming object storage, like Amazon S3, into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Last year, we launched Archil’s NFS-based product publicly on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and we were absolutely thrilled to see the response of this community. Since our last launch, we took a 10 month company-wide bet to build our own, custom storage protocol to deliver true, local-like performance to cloud instances – by behaving closer to a block storage…
Sep 2025
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Sep 2025 · github.com
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