[s3n4]

For a few years now, I've been obsessed with the idea of creating a way to store data, perform transformations on data, and allow others to subscribe to real-time updates to that data in a completely peer-to-peer way. I fundamentally believe that such a system is needed for building fully-functional, trust-minimized applications on stateful data without needing to rely on databases and data centers.

The result of much exploration and experimentation – I'm excited to share Ceramic with you.

Ceramic is a decentralized platform for data stream processing that is built on top of IPFS (interplanetary file system). Ceramic provides a way for developers to create and host streams of information and ever-changing files on the decentralized web – and share updates in real-time with anyone in the world.

Ceramic is still in early testing, but more than 2,000 developers have already started playing with the technology – their projects range from decentralized identity, to decentralized social media, content publishing, decentralized collaboration tools, cross-app/org data sharing, etc.

I would greatly appreciate any thoughts and/or feedback from the HN community so that I can work on making the system better.

[gravenp]

I'm super excited about where Ceramic is going and what it means for the (decentralized) web. There are lots of ideological and technical reasons that developers get excited about p2p networks/protocols, but for the average user, apps/platforms simply need to work and deliver perceived value. In our Ceramic integration, we've been able to deliver immediate usability for p2p content linking and pinning that's at least on-par with what you'd experience with web 2.0/centralized DB-based publishing. It only gets better from there as p2p apps/platforms scale and users get more data composability. With Ceramic going a long way to meeting those initial UX table stakes, apps can start to lean into the higher-level value propositions of p2p technology. Bullish.