filestash

What people said

• “If you are not ready to trust a vibe-coded app with all your digital life, I recommend Filestash, easy to install self-hosted frontend for virtually any type of storage. Written in Go, it can be enhanced with plugins. Uses local SQLite database. I am using it with Hetzner Stor…”

• “> France is not adopting existing open source software As a Frenchman, this stings. I have been working since 2017 in creating an open source alternative to Dropbox, the reality is out of 60 customers, only 2 are French and most co…”

• “The frontend of my main OSS work was made is plain es6: The frameworky code is under 100 lines of code, heavily inspired by what I think is a good idea from React: "components are pure function", the simplest example of the about page…”

• “Filestash was born after the infamous FTP top answer on the Dropbox launch. Trying to understand why we couldn't have nice things made on top of FTP, I came out with this interface: type IBackend interface { Ls(path string) ([]os.FileInfo, error) Cat(path string) (io.Read…”

• “I made out of the need to collaborate on org mode documents with non emacs users. Once the first release was done, I got to reflect on the infamous top comment of the Dropbox HN to make an attempt at abstracting the storage aspect of D…”

• “Malleability is a great answer to avoid the death by a thousand feature where you bloat your software because a company asked for something 99% of your users don't care about. That's the path I went with for my open source work with plugins that can run from a wasm runtime to pre…”

• “> It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own This hits hard. I'm a French citizen who made an open source alternative to Dropbox, I would have never thought my own government to attempt competing in my niche. I did contact the people at DINUM and it seems…”

• “As a French citizen who's been building an open source Dropbox alternative for almost a decade, the sovereignty talk in France makes me cringe. Everyone has the word in their mouth, but nobody bothers to even search for alternatives, let alone give them a chance. France repre…”