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Built a Google Drive Alternative in 2 Weeks — FreeDrive

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I ran out of storage on Google Drive and started searching for self-hosted open-source alternatives.

Most of them were difficult to install and didn’t really give you that “Google Drive feel.” After running into this myself, I decided to build my own.

FreeDrive is written in Go — a single 18MB binary. You install it with a simple script and get your own Google Drive-like system running on your computer or server.

Terminal window
curl -fsSL https://lnkd.in/dJfrrT6E -o install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

With FreeDrive, you can share your storage with other users. If you have 100GB, you can allocate 50GB to another user.

I spent over 15 days on this and made it fully open-source.

Star the repo to show support, and open an issue if you have suggestions.

GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dCxCfh8q Website: https://lnkd.in/dY_c29Rq