So, this whole thing kicked off because I hit a wall with local storage - it just doesn’t grow with you forever, you know? Plus, putting all my eggs in the basket of other companies felt a bit risky with all the changing rules and government access stuff these days.

What I ended up with is pretty cool: a personal file vault where I’m in charge. It treats any outside storage like it can’t be trusted, and all the encryption happens right on my computer. I can even use cloud storage like S3 if I need to, but I never lose control of my own data.

Honestly, it just kinda grew on its own; I never set out to build a product. I’m mainly sharing it here to see how other folks deal with these kinds of choices.

You can check it out at https://www.leyzen.com/

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    18 hours ago

    I was hoping for an answer. I think OP is saying that the backends are not persistent. So each time data is written or accessed, the backend may be dynamically created or modified. Guessing in lieu of OP’s response. However, the OP’s account is 6 hours old so…