I'm Lance, a developer out of Atlanta, GA, USA and am the creator of chest.store[0][1]. I decided to utilize any spare time I had during both the quarantine and paternity leave (I had a baby boy the day after Memorial Day) building it in hopes to solve some of my (and hopefully your) cloud storage whoa's.

After constantly struggling with FTP clients and various CLIs for managing files in different cloud storage products I (or my teams at work) had files hosted in, I figured there could be a better way to browse & manage files hosted in these locations in a single interface. I also realized that versioning in each product was relatively foreign to me, and I figured git was the perfect tool to use for versioning not just software repos, but any type of file. Using commands like `git log` and `git checkout $COMMIT_HASH` makes it super easy to review changes to different files, so why not build versioning of files within chest.store on top of a built in git server and client and store the version "repos" in the user's cloud bucket(s)?

Since chest.store uses git for version history of files uploaded and managed through this server, you can also use the git server like any old remote you're used to (Github, Gitlab, etc.) As it stands today chest.store is pretty early and I have plans of building many more collaboration and team-focused features, but primarily wanted to get any feedback I could via hacker news. I thought there would be no shortage of people who could provide feedback, particularly critical feedback for me to digest and make changes as needed :)

Thanks for checking it out and again, would love your feedback and anything you think would be nice to have for you to use it :)

[0]: https://chest.store

[1]: https://github.com/cheststore/chest.store