Locker

A self-hostable alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive. Upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure with any storage provider.

Highlights from the product’s site

• Everything you need to manage files
• Search Inside Images & PDFs
• Virtual Bash Shell
• Secure by Default
• Full control over your data

Open source: the code is at github.com/zmeyer44/Locker.

First shown on Hacker News on 7 April 2026 as “Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead”, where it reached 252 points and 208 comments. Read the discussion.