diff --git a/Vision.md b/Vision.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68edc3b --- /dev/null +++ b/Vision.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Tilde Friends Vision + +Tilde Friends is a tool for making and sharing. + +It is both a peer-to-peer social network client, participating in Secure +Scuttlebutt, and an environment for creating and running web applications. + +## Why + +This is a thing that I wanted to exist and wanted to work on. No other reason. +There is not a business model. I believe it is interesting and unique. + +## Goals + +1. Make it **easy and fun** to run all sorts of web applications. + +2. Provide **security** that is easy to understand and protects your data. + +3. Make **creating and sharing** web applications accessible to anyone with a + browser. + +## Ways to Use Tilde Friends + +1. **Social Network User**: This is a social network first. You are just here, + because your friends are. Or you like how we limit your message length or + short videos or whatever the trend is. If you are ambitious, you click links + and see interactive experiences (apps) that you wouldn't see elsewhere. + +2. **Web Visitor**: You get links from a friend to meeting invites, polls, games, + lists, wiki pages, ..., and you interact with them as though they were + cloud-hosted by a megacorporation. They just work, and you don't think twice. + +3. **Group leader**: You host or use a small public instance, installing apps for + a group of friends to use as web visitors. + +4. **Developer**: You like to write code and make or improve apps for fun or to + solve problems. When you encounter a Tilde Friends app on a strange server, + you know you can trivially modify it or download it to your own instance. + +## Future Goals / Endgame + +1. Mobile apps. This can run on your old phone. Maybe you won't be hosting + the web interface publicly, but you can sync, install and edit apps, and + otherwise get the full experience from a tiny touch screen. + +2. The universal application runtime. The web browser is the universal + platform, but even for the simplest application that you might want to host + for your friends, cloud hosting, containers, and complicated dependencies might + all enter the mix. Tilde Friends, though it is yet another thing to host, + includes everything you need out of the box to run a vast variety of interesting + apps. + + Tilde Friends will be built out, gradually providing safe access to host + resources and client resources the same way web browsers extended access to + resources like GPU, persistent storage, cameras, ... over the years. + + Not much effort has been put forward yet to having a robust, long-lasting API, + but since the client side longevity is already handled by web browsers, it + seems possible that the server-side API can be managed in a similar way. + +3. An awesome development environment. Right now it runs JavaScript from the + first embeddable text editor I could poorly configure enough to edit code, + but it could incorporate a debugger, source control integration a la ssb-git, + merge tools, and transpiling from all sorts of different languages. \ No newline at end of file