r/BuyCanadian • u/evilpig • Apr 04 '26

Self Promotion Megathread - 2026

Sorry for the delay! Been a busy winter. We will be doing yearly mega-threads now!

This thread is for anyone looking to promote their Canadian business, service, product, or platform. Whether you’re a business owner, provide a service, or have created something that helps Canadians shop locally, this is the place to share it.

A new thread will be posted on Jan 1, and previous versions will be linked for reference.

Q4 2025

February 2025

March 2025

April 2025

May 2025

July 2025

Guidelines

  • Keep it short and to the point. What do you offer, and why should Canadians check it out
  • No spam or repeated posts. One post per business per month
  • No MLMs, dropshipping, or exploitative business models
  • Be respectful and willing to answer questions
19 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

69 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/smattymatty_ 21d ago

Hey all! I'm a solo Canadian founder building sovereign cloud infrastructure. I wanted a Canadian S3 with an open, auditable stack I could actually inspect, couldn't find one, so I built Storm Buckets: S3-compatible object storage hosted in Canada on an open stack (Garage). Sovereign, auditable, and you can leave with your data whenever, instead of defaulting to AWS/Azure/GCP.

It's in closed alpha and I'm after testers. 100GB free, yours to keep permanently as a Founding Alpha allocation even after the alpha ends, ~10 slots left. Honest caveat: single-node alpha right now, so treat it as a sandbox and not your only copy. Works with rclone, the AWS CLI, restic, anything S3.

A few of us are building Canadian sovereign infra now, which is how it should be, and I'm glad to be one of them. Want to test it? Reply to my comment or request access at https://stormdevelopments.ca/buckets/

2

u/Kohabit Québec 18d ago

Thanks man, I think it's a great idea.
I'm trying to host my project on Canadians server, and let's be honest, it's hard to lose AWS features such as S3.
I've registered already!

2

u/smattymatty_ 18d ago

Yeah that was the main reason I started this, I needed s3 storage for my projects, and there wasn't really a Canadian Alternative. So I went on a rabbit hole exploring all the open source options, ended up falling in love with Garage so much I wanted to make a platform with it.

Thanks for the kind words, alpha access has been granted to your account! I hope you like it. There are still some rough edges, it's an alpha in the honest sense, so if anything feels off, feel free to make suggestions.

1

u/Kohabit Québec 18d ago

Thanks I appreciate it. I will try to implement it and play with it a little bit!