Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
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
Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead launched on April 7, 2026 with 252 votes, #101 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Locker is an open-source file storage alternative that lets users store files on their own cloud storage buckets instead of using commercial services. It works with multiple providers including AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Vercel Blob, and local storage. The tool features a virtual file system and integrates with QMD Search for file discovery. Designed for developers and users who prefer self-hosted solutions, Locker eliminates recurring storage subscription fees by leveraging existing cloud infrastructure.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A self-hostable alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive. Upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure with any storage provider.
The self-hostable alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive. Upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure. Bring your own storage — local disk, S3, R2, or Vercel Blob. One env var to switch. Full type-safe API with tRPC. Locker gives you the full toolkit for file management, sharing, and collaboration—all self-hosted on your own terms. Attach multiple storage backends per workspace. Designate a primary store, fan out writable replicas for redundancy, and ingest files from read-only sources. Find files by what's in them, not just the name. Locker transcribes images and PDFs into searchable text so every document is discoverable. Navigate your files with familiar commands. Use…from locker.dev
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
- SASlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox2021 · ▲284
Hey folks, We are the team behind Slik. Over the past year, we have been hacking on SlikSafe [1] a Dropbox alternative where all your data is first encrypted on your own device and then stored on decentralized storage. Some features we're most excited about are - - multi-device data sync, - auto-backups via desktop apps, - search your docs by name or contents with end-to-end encryption, - easy sharing via email, QR-code or private-link, - Password-less login using MetaMask/Phantom We leverage storage providers IPFS and Storj for global redundancy, reliability, and immutability. You can…
Dropbox Smart Sync2017 · dropbox.com · ▲286Get access to every file and folder shared in your Dropbox
Open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S32024 · github.com · ▲61An incredibly simple, open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3-compatible storage—no servers needed - goshops-com/clipshare
More dev tools this month
the category →
Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 1d ago · github.com
open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 29d ago · github.com
Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com
OpenBot▲362Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer
Dev tools · 24d ago · openbot.run
Talanoa▲346Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…
Dev tools · 22d ago · talanoa.email
Source: Show HN post ↗
Launched alongside, April 2026
the whole month →
- AG
Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
AI · Apr 2026 · github.com
I made a laptop stand out of solid concrete, in the style of brutalist architecture, with themes of urbex and urban decay
Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com
With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app