Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Drive?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Drive? by erulabs on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:48PM (#30029795)

We're in the process of building an alternative to Google Photos over at https://kubesail.com. You can use it now with a spare PC, or buy our custom designed hardware at https://pibox.io.

Today we're prepping to publish our App to the iOS app-store, which will do local-wifi-photo-synching much like Google Photos, only faster (due to only transferring over local network, not the internet). It's going to be a long battle to catch up with hosted Google Products, but we're on our way.

As for Google Drive, apps like NextCloud (https://kubesail.com/template/erulabs/NextCloud) work really well, though they're not quite as slick as google products. For Google Sheets, there is https://seatable.io/.

Self-hosting software is coming along nicely. All it really needs to get as slick as Google products is more users and more money and more attention. We're hoping to provide exactly that by making it far easier to buy a "Google-Photos-replacement box" (PiBox + PhotoStructure) or a "Slack-replacement Box" (PiBox + Mattermost).

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Drive? by peakaboo on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:09PM (#30030045)

I think the coming years will see a push to move away from Google and these megacorps in general.

It will start with the nerds like us as always, starting to use alternative products and recommending them to the mainstream people who just use what they are told.

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