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Hi, one of the DPAGE creators here. We’re a team of two guys who used to work at Wix (website builder). We felt that there are not many good options if you want to quickly set up a minimalistic webpage or publish some content online. So we built dpage. With dpage you can edit your pages in a dropbox paper-inspired editor and give them human readable urls. We want it to be good for personal homepages, keeping and sharing your notes, snippets and embedded content (e.g. youtube videos, twitter posts, or github gists). In terms of tech, it’s built on top of Blockstack’s decentralized infrastructure. You log into DPAGE using a decentralized id, and your data is stored on Blockstack's decentralized storage hub (Gaia). At any point you can run your own storage hub and store your data on your own server. DPAGE doesn’t store user data, it connects to user’s storage hub from the browser when user logs into the app. Gaia storage hubs are usually publicly accessible, but all private information is end-to-end encrypted with the private keys associated with the user’s Blockstack id. As a result, there’s no vendor lock-in with DPAGE, users can bring their data with them to other apps, they have complete control over their data. For example, if Facebook was built this way, a user who doesn’t like FB could seamlessly start using another app and keep all their contacts and messages. We realize that it might be harder to monetize a product, when you can’t lock-in users into your app. You basically voluntarily open yourself up to the competition. On the other hand, the total value that the product can create for the world is much greater if the data is controlled by the users and they can permission other apps to use it. Imagine all the innovation that could happen if all the data on Facebook was open to developers (with the permission of users who own the data). We’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback about the idea or the app. |