Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud written in TypeScript

Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by shortformblog on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:58PM (#39731539)

This looks cool. I don’t know what direction you’re going to take this, but my big challenge with Nextcloud is that the file syncing gets very unreliable in short order. I honestly would love to see someone do something like this with Syncthing as a file management backend. It is honestly the best tool of its kind, and it is extremely fast and reliable.

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by DirkH on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:33AM (#39732158)

Second this.

Setting up syncthing was incredibly easy and it is a beast. Has no problems syncing all my huge video media files

All it did is beg the question for me: why has nobody created a file sync UI where you can essentially use syncthing like you might Google Drive but with a slick effortless interface that non-technical folks wouldn't mind using?

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by mrAssHat on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:26AM (#39732840)

On the contrary, I didn't find Syncthing setup very easy, as I don't want to be dependent on external resources when doing a sync over LAN and thus I had to setup a coordinator myself and it's a bit confusing with all these long tokens that I needed for some reason.

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by BrunoBernardino on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:56AM (#39733184)

Thanks for sharing your experience! Is there something else you use right now?

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by traverseda on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:30PM (#39736732)

It uses direct udp peer discovery on Lan though?

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by BrunoBernardino on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:42AM (#39732420)

Thanks! I'm not sure just yet and I still have Calendars/CalDav to work on first, but I've added Syncthing as a potential backend for the desktop client. I also have notes to explore `rclone` or `rsync` since those are very reliable, simple, and slim.

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