The work that goes onto creating selfhosted software. Insights onto my
selfhosted journey
reddit / selfhosted

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mickael-kerjean · 2023-10-22 14:05

Not sure if that's of any interest to anyone but there's a lot of
hidden stuff that happen when I started the journey in creating a
selfhosted Dropbox alternative back in 2017 as I wasn't happy with
state of the ecosystem.


To put in bluntly I figured the best path for a good Dropbox
alternative was to follow the unix philosophy and use the right tool
for the right job where Dropbox is made of 3 tools:
\- storage: sftp server, ftp server, webdav server, there's sooo many
servers available, it would be dumb to reinvent a worse wheel
\- sync: syncthing, unison for 2 way sync if that's needed, rsync for
one way sync, ....
\- a UI: well there was nothing that could make a nice enough job so I
made it happen


Once that's said, it become obvious one can do a lot if you just focus
on the UI bit and the idea was to share all those stuff in the open
starting from somewhere

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isleepbad · 2023-10-22 22:34

Nice read. I'm also developing my own app and am also using streaming.
Can't wait to see your article on that.

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mickael-kerjean · 2023-10-23 10:03

will post an update here then! Good to see some other people building
selfhosted software that don't shove everything in memory :)