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Elias Schneider

Posted on Apr 25, 2022 • Updated on May 13, 2022

Pingvin Share - A selfhosted file sharing platform

#appwritehack #appwrite #nextjs #mantine

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 / pingvin-share

A self-hosted file sharing platform.

Pingvin Share

Pingvin Share is a self-hosted file sharing platform made for the Appwrite Hackathon.

🎪 Showcase

Demo: https://pingvin-share.dev.eliasschneider.com

✨ Features

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
Dark mode

⌨️ Setup

At the moment, the setup is a bit time-consuming. I will improve the setup in the future.

1. Appwrite

Pingvin Share uses Appwrite as backend. You have to install and setup Appwrite first

Install Appwrite
Create an Account on your Appwrite instance
Change the _APP_STORAGE_LIMIT variable in the .env file of Appwrite to your prefered max size limit per share

2. Frontend

First of all you have to start the Docker container.

Clone the docker-compose.yml file and the .env.example file from this repository
Rename the .env.example file to .env
Start the container with docker-compose up -d

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🙋🏼‍♂️ 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