Uploom
Turn standard storage into a massive S3 bucket for $0
Hey everyone,
Like most developers here, I love building products, but I absolutely hate the "cloud tax."
Lately, I’ve been working on video infrastructure, and if you’ve ever built anything with video, you know the infrastructure markups from traditional SaaS platforms and big cloud providers are brutal. You pay a premium for object storage, an arm and a leg for egress fees, and to top it off, you have to hand over your raw data to a third-party server, losing total control and privacy.
I kept thinking: There has to be a more efficient way.
I realized that between various platforms, many of us have access to gigabytes—or even terabytes—of standard, unused personal cloud storage. What if we could aggregate that, standardize it, and use it for heavy backend tasks?
So, I built Uploom.
The Core Idea: Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS)
Uploom is a modular B2B video segmentation engine with a major twist: you bring your own storage.
Instead of building a massive, expensive storage silo and charging you a markup for it, I built an abstraction layer that aggregates standard storage accounts and exposes them through a single, unified, high-performance S3-compatible API layer for $0.
Uploom sits directly on top of this zero-cost S3 setup. It handles the heavy lifting of processing, slicing, and segmenting your video files, while your data remains securely inside your own buckets.
Why I’m building this in public:
Zero storage markup: You only leverage what you already own.
100% data ownership: Your files never leave your direct control.
Cost efficiency: It allows bootstrapped startups to run video pipelines without the staggering AWS bill.
I’m currently in the pre-revenue/building stage, refining the MVP and optimizing the backend architecture.
I’d love to get the community's thoughts:
If you run a SaaS, would a BYOS (Bring Your Own Storage) model appeal to you for media assets?
What features would you want to see out of a decentralized S3-compatible layer?
Excited to connect, exchange feedback, and share the engineering journey here!
1 Comment
The real shift here isn’t “cheaper storage”—it’s decoupling data ownership from infrastructure vendors entirely.
Most systems optimize for performance or cost, but the deeper constraint is control. Once storage becomes an abstraction over user-owned resources, you’re not just reducing cloud spend—you’re redefining where responsibility and trust actually sit in the stack.