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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

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.