My friend Matt and I spent the last year building Seamside a creative workspace where every byte lives on the devices of the people using it. No company servers. No accounts. No storage tier. When you and I collaborate, my machine talks to yours, directly.
We're launching it on PH soon, but I'd rather talk about the thing itself than the launch.
the fact that it syncs straight between devices without any signup kind of surprised me, like everything just shows up instantly. honestly the sandboxed frames thing feels pretty clever for keeping stuff isolated.
Thanks, @nbruno_tan. That's been a big part of Seamside; trying to rethink the entire system from the ground up so that it doesn't need to sit on someone else's server, even for things like auth. The trust model is about validating pub/priv keys, not assuming an OAuth provider will do it for you. And it has a powerful side effect that nearby users can auth each other, even when the internet is out.