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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/savagesir on 2024-04-04 21:29:31.

Do you remember the days when you were buying CDs and hard-drives to store your movies and songs? I sure do! Each CD could hold about 700MB of data and HDD were bulky and heavy. Then came cloud and abstracted the problem of maintaining the hardware yourself.

All of a sudden you could go from storing 1 MB to 1GB of data in an hour and check this out only pay for the storage you were using. Pay for only what you use! Ain’t that nice?! But wait, the companies started charging for cloud storage just like you used to pay for CDs and hard drives. There is a 10GB plan, a 50 GB plan, all the way up to 2TB plans for consumers. Why should I pay for 50GB if I am only using 15GB of my storage?

To solve my frustration, I’ve decided to build an open source metered storage platform. Want to use 1GB?! Great, thats what you pay for. Want to use 20GB the next month? Sure, just pay a little extra. But always pay for only what you use!

I’m going to start with an open source frontend app for photos and videos, and expand to documents later on. Photos and videos take up a major chunk of storage and thats why I want to address them first.

Do you think you will use an app like this even if you’re already subscribed to Google One or iCloud storage plans?