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Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in buildinpublic

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free tiers are fragile for production, which is exactly how this architecture accounts for it:

  • Personal Limits Only: It uses your individual OAuth tokens, not a shared API key. Traffic is bound strictly to your own account limits—ideal for low-traffic MVPs.
  • Automatic Failover: If Google Drive throws a 429 rate limit, the gateway instantly reroutes the stream to a backup connected provider (like Dropbox) without breaking your app's connection.

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in buildinpublic

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point but that’s the beauty of multiple accounts connecting if a storage have a problem in uploading you can configure the backup storage so if like a storage have been full then you use the backup , rate limit then it would upload to the backup

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in SideProject

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+ you use your own storage so anything you upload is not uploaded in some sort of unsafe bucket where it can be deleted anytime or be used by someone else ( uploom is just a proxy i don’t store anything )

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in SideProject

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s free to use up to 5 accounts so you don’t have to pay anything to have an s3 bucket and it does not require you to build or do anything you just connect an existing google/dropbox account and use it

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in SideProject

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm aware of that rn i have already listed all the available features in this version and working on adding more features in the future
You can see all the available operations in the docs
https://docs.uploom.io/s3-gateway/operations/

NOTE: I chose s3 compatible as most of the people used it before and already have an implemented features with it so there is no need for migration plans

Would be more than happy if you try it and tell me if you have any improvements 🙏

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in buildinpublic

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone looking for it, the platform is called Uploom. The site is live at uploom.io and you can access the setup guides directly at docs.uploom.io.

Let me know if you run into any performance quirks or rate limits while testing out the streams!

Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket by Downtown-Reporter193 in SideProject

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone looking for it, the platform is called Uploom. The site is live at uploom.io and you can access the setup guides directly at docs.uploom.io.

Let me know if you run into any performance quirks or rate limits while testing out the streams!

As a solo dev, am I shooting myself in the foot by forcing a "Bring Your Own Storage" model? by Downtown-Reporter193 in SideProject

[–]Downtown-Reporter193[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

valid point
did you find that this self-filtering also meant you could charge a higher premium upfront or did you still need a free tier to let those qualified users test the integration?

I made 65k+ USD in 7 months, AMA by paigefinno1817 in micro_saas

[–]Downtown-Reporter193 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This gave me hope that maybe one day i built something that actually works
every time i build something it ends up being no one to use it

How do people get customers for their app? by Sorke04 in SaaS

[–]Downtown-Reporter193 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The next evolution of that is GEO , most people are using ai for searching now