The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Locker
Posts with mentions or reviews of Locker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-04-21.
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A Developer Built an Open-Source Dropbox on a Dare. Here's How to Self-Host It.
A few weeks ago, @swyx nerd-sniped @zachmeyer into building an open-source Dropbox. Zach took it seriously, and the result is Locker: a self-hostable file storage platform that covers most of what you'd actually use Dropbox or Google Drive for, without the subscription or lock-in.
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
- Show HN: I built an Open-source Dropbox/Google Drive BOYB(Bring your own bucket)
jc
Posts with mentions or reviews of jc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning jc yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Locker and jc you can also consider the following projects:
stash - A small and user-friendly ETS wrapper for caching in Elixir
cachex - A powerful caching library for Elixir with support for transactions, fallbacks and expirations
gen_spoxy - **DEPRECATED** caching made fun!
Nebulex - In-memory and distributed caching toolkit for Elixir.
Mem - KV cache with TTL, Replacement and Persistence support
lru_cache - ETS-based fix-sized LRU cache for elixir