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Show HN: I built an Open-source Dropbox/Google Drive BOYB(Bring your own bucket)

https://github.com/zmeyer44/Locker

Last week Swyx nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox.

Here is Locker: An 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

Locker is designed to sit on top of your bucket, so you can use whatever provider you like best (Or just use a local disk)

BOYB means you don't have to self-host to use your own bucket, just add your keys via the hosted UI, and you're good to go

Locker itself can act as its own S3 bucket, meaning you can generate Locker keys and use them in other applications to have data saved directly to your locker.

( 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: I built an Open-source Dropbox/Google Drive BOYB... by GeoSys on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:12AM (#47658972)
Noice! Would be good if there was a mobile app too?
Re:Show HN: I built an Open-source Dropbox/Google Drive BOYB... by Zm44 on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:40AM (#47662342)
Yea, I set it up as a monorepo so it should be straight forward to build on top of