> quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs and blah blah blah...

This quote has haunted me for quite some time until I realised the best way to solve the Dropbox problem lay in the UNIX philosophy with at least: a storage component + a sync component + a web UI component

At that stage, it becomes a game of lego in a healthy ecosystem of tools. As I was just missing the web UI component, I built it: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash