A few months back, if you use self-hosted object stores, you know that MinIO essentially <a href="https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647#issuecomment-3439134621" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">pulled the plug</a> on their open source project. I was so disappointed and frustrated with this decision, that I decided to try and build my own. Since I have a YouTube channel, I thought this could be some interesting content as well, so I ended up making a series of six videos, where I share a few details about the development process and my journey with Go. I’ve been coding since 1999, and I am a pretty experienced Python dev (over a decade), but I hadn’t used a lower level language in years. It was a great experience to get back to the root!
If you’re wondering if this was vibe coded, it was not. I used ChatGPT to learn a lot of concepts, since I was new to Go, but 99% is good old manual coding. Nothing against vibe coding, but it’s just not what I do.
I’ve since moved to cover other subjects in my channel, but it’s likely I’ll go back to LabStore in the future, after I complete the videos I’ve got planned next. Developing such a large project alone, in 2 week cycles, writing a blog post about it and recording a video on it, is not easy, so I was burning out, and had to switch gears a bit.
Anyway, I’d like to share the videos, blog posts, and the GitHub repo, if you’re interested in taking a look. This was a project of love!
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYFlcNJOCw&amp;list=PLeKtvIdgbljNrxAATsvk216jNwt-jyxUe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYFlcNJOCw&amp;list=PLeKtvIdgbljNrxAATsvk216jNwt-jyxUe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://datalabtechtv.com/tags/object-store/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://datalabtechtv.com/tags/object-store/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IllumiKnowLabs/labstore" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/IllumiKnowLabs/labstore</a></li>
</ul>
You can install it with <code>go</code>:
<pre><code>go install github.com/IllumiKnowLabs/labstore/cmd/labstore@v0.1.0
</code></pre>
And also use the docker image to setup a server elsewhere:
<pre><code>docker run -d -p 6789:6789 ghcr.io/illumiknowlabs/labstore:v0.1.0 serve
</code></pre>

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A developer with a Python background built LabStore, an S3-compatible object store with IAM support in Go, as a response to MinIO effectively abandoning its open source project. The project was developed manually (no vibe coding) over several two-week cycles, accompanied by a six-part YouTube series and blog posts. The author shares the GitHub repo, Docker image, and Go install instructions for anyone interested in a self-hosted alternative to MinIO.

My first project in Go was an S3-compatible object store with IAM