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

🙋🏼‍♂️ 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

🔗 Resources

• Appwrite
• Mantine
• NextJS