Overview of My Appwrite x DEV Hackathon Submission
Pingvin Share is a self-hosted file-sharing platform built with the awesome BaaS (Backend as a Service) Appwrite.
A small demo before we begin.
You can try it by your own on https://pingvin-share.dev.eliasschneider.com
The idea for this project came because I want to share some confidential files with my family.
Because privacy is important to me and I love self-hosting I searched for a self-hosted file sharing platform.
I only found big solutions like Nextcloud but I wanted a lightweight service without advanced features that I don't need.
✨ Features
- Upload as big files as you want. Only your hard drive will be your limit
- Create a simple share with a link
- Secure your share with a visitor limit and a password
- Share your files with specific emails and send an invitation email
⌨️ Technologies
Appwrite
Appwrite is the core for Pingvin Share. Pingvin Share uses Appwrite Storage, Database, Authentication and Cloud functions.
NextJS
This project uses NextJS as the frontend and for some API endpoints.
Mantine
Mantine is a beautiful React component library. It ships useful hooks, awesome components, a form handler, a modal manager, a notification manager and many more.
📂 Submission Category
Web2 Wizards
Link to Code
stonith404
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pingvin-share
A self-hosted file sharing platform that combines lightness and beauty, perfect for seamless and efficient file sharing.
Pingvin Share
Pingvin Share
Pingvin Share is a self-hosted file sharing platform and an alternative for WeTransfer.
✨ Features
- Share files using a link
- Unlimited file size (restricted only by disk space)
- Set an expiration date for shares
- Secure shares with visitor limits and passwords
- Email recipients
- Reverse shares
- OIDC and LDAP authentication
- Integration with ClamAV for security scans
🐧 Get to know Pingvin Share
⌨️ Setup
Installation with Docker (recommended)
- Download the
docker-compose.ymlfile - Run
docker compose up -d
The website is now listening on http://localhost:3000, have fun with Pingvin Share 🐧!
Tip
Checkout Pocket ID, a user-friendly OIDC provider that lets you easily log in to services like Pingvin Share using Passkeys.
📚 Documentation
For more installation options and advanced configurations, please refer to the documentation.
🖤 Contribute
We would love it if you want to help make Pingvin Share better! You…
🙋🏼♂️ About me
My name is Elias and I'm studying software engineering in Switzerland. This is my first and definitely not least hackathon participation. I've really enjoyed to create this small project and learned a lot!
You can find more about me on https://eliasschneider.com
Top comments (6)
Looks awesome!!
Congratulations on joining your first hackathon! Great choice by the way. And nice job on the project!
Hi Elias,
Thanks for sharing this really great app.
Can you tell us how to translate / add others languages.
Regards
Hey, thanks :) Currently we don't support multiple languages, but if you want to see this feature, feel free to create an issue on GitHub!
How cool! We have a lot of interesting things happening in our Appwrite discord, we would love to see you there!
discord.gg/KKZprAnX
I'm already a member since one year😊