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

Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by BrunoBernardino on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:54AM (#39732458)

Thanks for the great question! I think the main issue for me is I don't want to install and maintain multiple different services (contacts, calendar, tasks, files, notes, photos, though arguably those could all "fit" in 2 services -- which is why I have two Nextcloud instances), and having a single service/server with those becomes easier to maintain.

They all use open standards (CardDav, CalDav, WebDav), and that's why I can use DavX5 on Android and Gnome on Linux and Apple's default accounts/apps too.

bewCloud has and will have a simple UI for each of those just because I think there's value to having an easy web access that's not sync-dependent.

I hope that makes sense!

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by mrAssHat on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:32AM (#39732866)

Why not have both? A single server/service AND easy-to-install modules providing atomic functionality? Just make the install/uninstall process easy (like just downloading and optionally unpacking a modules archive into installed_modules Dir)?

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by BrunoBernardino on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:01AM (#39733213)

Yes! Since these will be easy and used _as needed_, the plan is to have those be set by this `.env` var: https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/blob/2d70a3817de1fd6108... thus not requiring download/install/uninstall, but not bloat as they won't be used if they're not enabled.

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by jonwest on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:40AM (#39732903)

With the exception of a handful of core modules isn’t that exactly what Nextcloud does?

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Re:Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud w... by BrunoBernardino on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:02AM (#39733217)

Yes! Their "problem" is that they have to support a lot of legacy and extensibility, thus even just the "barebones" Nextcloud uses a lot of resources (CPU/Memory/IO).

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