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Ask HN: Are you looking for collaborators/maintainers?

• coreyp_1 10y ago
  If you're looking for a completely nascent (not yet usable) JS project, check out Defiant (https://github.com/coreyp1/defiant https://github.com/coreyp1/defiant). It's immediate form is as a rudimentary CMS, but it's ambition is much deeper. Defiant aims to define a secure and uniform API for integrating different types of systems. For example, take secure form handling. It is a difficult thing! Check out this blog post series to see what I mean: https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre-still-doing-forms-wrong-and-so-your-framework-part-1 https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre... https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre-still-doing-forms-wrong-and-so-your-framework-part-2 https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre... https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre-still-doing-forms-wrong-and-so-your-framework-part-3 https://cscrunch.com/blog/corey-pennycuff/its-2016-and-youre... Most developers are not security experts, and yet they are often forced to cobble together form handling tools (usually not correctly) when putting together website after website. At the moment, Defiant is only about 3K lines, but probably will need to be 7K before it is minimally useable by anyone (including me), 20K before it is pleasant and attracting users. For now, it's what I do in my spare time for fun. As an example of where I can see people using such a system, it could be used as both a web-based front-end, as well as a back-end for email servers, dns servers, RTC-based video/text chat (e.g., a private slack on steroids, or customer support system), github/gitlab-like systems, and of course, normal websites such as eCommerce and other CMS-based websites. Moreover, these systems should be able to coexist (in the case of smaller websites) as needed. The most important thing to realize is that it would allow people to run their own services without paying for 3rd party services or having to involve 3rd party systems. For example, when you use Skype, your audio/video/text/file-transfer streams go through their services. In a Defiant-based WebRTC system, communication would be encrypted peer-to-peer, ensuring private communication for business-critical information. Contact me if you're interested in exploring this area! EDIT: Not sure how to make the links nicer.