Imagine an internet where users own their data, identities, and relationships — and where apps are designed to respect privacy, autonomy, and freedom.
As a developer, Homebase gives you the tools to make this vision a reality. We allow you to create secure, decentralized apps that empower users to take back control of their digital lives:
- Sovereign: Authenticate users with self-sovereign identities based on domains.
- Secure: Develop apps with zero-knowledge encrypted siloed storage, secure by design.
- Collaborative: Build apps that seamlessly integrate with others, enabling peer to peer shared files, comments, reactions, and more.
- Decentralized: Let users run Homebase anywhere, from personal servers to the cloud.
Homebase is more than a platform — it's the backbone of a movement to rebuild the internet as distributed, sovereign, and user-owned. By joining us, you're not just building better apps, you're building a better future.
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How Homebase Compares
Homebase is part of a broader movement to decentralize and reclaim the internet, alongside platforms like Matrix, Nostr, BlueSky, Mastodon, and many more.
Each of these services solves a specific problem, but day-to-day users end up spread across platforms for chat, social, photos, collaboration, and storage.
Homebase brings everything together under one roof. Instead of juggling multiple accounts and scattered services, users have one identity, one login, and one place for storage. Whether it's private messaging, social networking, or file sharing, Homebase provides a unified and secure ecosystem—while still remaining open, interoperable, and developer-friendly.
At Homebase, we don't believe we can or should build all apps—or even the best ones—but we are creating a platform where developers can. By providing the tools, infrastructure, and vision, we aim to empower developers to build the next generation of secure, decentralized apps that bring everything together for users in one cohesive, user-owned ecosystem.
Apps on Homebase
At Homebase, we've developed apps for chat, community (Slack-like), social, and photos to provide a solid foundation for the platform. These apps served two main purposes:
- To Nail the Protocols: By building these sample apps ourselves, we ensured the interoperability and underlying protocols are reliable, seamless, and developer-friendly.
- To Provide a Starting Point: These apps are a springboard for developers to see what's possible and take it even further.
Our goal isn't to build every app or even the best ones. Instead, we're focused on creating a platform where developers like you can bring your expertise to build the apps users truly need.