It started, as side projects do, with another side project.

I'd been playing with Hermes Agent and watching it produce things — reports, generated images, scraped CSVs, scratch notes.

Useful stuff. And every time, the same nagging question: where does this go?

The desktop wasn't going to cut it. Neither was a folder I'd forget about by Tuesday. I wanted somewhere I could throw anything at and trust would still be there in a month — organized, addressable, mine. What I actually wanted was an S3 bucket on my own hardware.

Finding Garage

A bit of searching led me to Garage — a self-hosted, S3-compatible object store from Deuxfleurs. Lightweight, replicated, runs happily on a couple of cheap boxes. Exactly the shape I wanted.

I got it running. It worked. And then I hit the part nobody talks about: how do you actually look at your stuff?

The official path is the garage CLI plus something like mc or aws s3. Fine — but a small wall of friction every time I just wanted to glance at what the agent dumped overnight.

I didn't want to aws s3 ls my way to an answer. I wanted to open a tab.

Door

So I built one. A web UI in front of Garage with a low, specific bar:

• Open a tab, see my buckets.
• Browse files like folders.
• Drag-and-drop upload.
• Click an image, see the image.
• Click a report, read it.
• Manage keys, permissions, and the cluster from the same place.

I called it Door. Your garage door.

Still very early and actively in development — this started as tooling for my own side projects and agent workflows. But it's already become one of those tabs I keep open all day.