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hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: w

hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's devtools or with a site builder -- anyone could participate in the platform at the level they're comfortable Still early days, but I have: • CodeMirror/devtools editing • Read-only backups on every save • Quill.js plugin for content/blog editing • Copying other people's sites It's meant to be a no-consequences, lightweight way to make and share apps, ideas, and interactive sites (where every possibility fits into your head)

masukomi 4y ago
it sounds a lot like you're reinventing what Beaker Browser had built on top of DAT, except that it could do more. For example, they made a distributed Twitter clone as a proof of concept, but folks actually started using it. Definitely included blogging stuff. Really cool stuff around taking sites and things other folks had built and using them as a basis for your new thing. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ If you're not familiar i'd recommend starting with some of the YouTube videos giving an overview. It was pretty cool. Alas, the main dev was hired by BlueSky and is now working there... but wonders if maybe you couldn't take that idea or its tools, and mush it together with yours.
- pfraze 4y ago
  Hey that's me. Thanks for the shout out @panphora yeah you're project looks like (IMO) a smarter version of what beaker was doing. Smarter because the p2p element ended up being a bit of a tech-fascination that got in the way. Hyperspace seems to be doing the actually-cool-UX of self-editing sites and then getting out of the way otherwise. The beaker team made a distributed twitter clone, but the cooler one (Rotonde) was made by 100 rabbits and you "made your profile" by forking somebody else's profile It's messy but fun (the software itself is viral!). If you create js apis for reading other sites and enumerating the files in them, you can get a lot of power out of that.
l-portet 4y ago
ngl it's pretty cool but I can't find a use case for it
- panphora 4y ago
  What about a simple blog?
kanon11 4y ago
Any links to cool sites already made with this?
- panphora 4y ago
  The home page is made with it :) No cool sites made by users yet though, the creator (me) is still the only user haha

masukomi 4y ago

it sounds a lot like you're reinventing what Beaker Browser had built on top of DAT, except that it could do more. For example, they made a distributed Twitter clone as a proof of concept, but folks actually started using it. Definitely included blogging stuff. Really cool stuff around taking sites and things other folks had built and using them as a basis for your new thing. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ If you're not familiar i'd recommend starting with some of the YouTube videos giving an overview. It was pretty cool. Alas, the main dev was hired by BlueSky and is now working there... but wonders if maybe you couldn't take that idea or its tools, and mush it together with yours.

pfraze 4y ago
Hey that's me. Thanks for the shout out @panphora yeah you're project looks like (IMO) a smarter version of what beaker was doing. Smarter because the p2p element ended up being a bit of a tech-fascination that got in the way. Hyperspace seems to be doing the actually-cool-UX of self-editing sites and then getting out of the way otherwise. The beaker team made a distributed twitter clone, but the cooler one (Rotonde) was made by 100 rabbits and you "made your profile" by forking somebody else's profile It's messy but fun (the software itself is viral!). If you create js apis for reading other sites and enumerating the files in them, you can get a lot of power out of that.

l-portet 4y ago

ngl it's pretty cool but I can't find a use case for it

panphora 4y ago
What about a simple blog?

kanon11 4y ago

Any links to cool sites already made with this?

panphora 4y ago
The home page is made with it :) No cool sites made by users yet though, the creator (me) is still the only user haha