| Understandable concerns, but then we start to talk about my limitation as a solo developer on an unfunded side project. > blank page dev with no open source karma I dont want anyone to just "trust me bro". im mainly active on reddit. I ask for feedback on relevant subs. What you see on my app is the result of several iterations from feedback and my learnings. This is a recent post about how encryption is being used. https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1rix3nb/imple... I discuss various details on reddit to seek feedback. Feedback on experimental code has always been hard to ask for even before AI slop and i get my fair share of criticism about my code. I previously worked on a open source version of the project. I created docs and communicated a reasonable amount about the details. It would have been worth collaborating with if i could get some kind of open-source funding. Ive tried grants and donations platforms. for similar resons to you, no grant wants to support this project and nobody donates (completely understandable). In the age of AI, it looks like a weekend project. That version of the project looks like this: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat I leave that open source because it demonstrates some core concepts around my project that i cant see anywhere else (webapp, no registration/installation, browser-based signal protocol, etc)... but after how long i worked on it, it seems open source isnt sustainable. That leads me to the latest version linked in this post. its and improvement over the open-source version in every way.... but i try to be clear that its still far from finished, because there are a lot of things to address before promoting this as ready. While its understandable youd like a project like this run by a team of experts, there are limitation in what i can do beyond open-sourcing and talking about it. Some of the grant applications rejected with reasons along the lines of me being a one-man-band. completely understandable, but experts are not going to hire themselves on this project. My motivations on this project are simple. I want to create a secure messaging app with the aim for it to be able to support me. it is reasonably open source, but not 100% in order for me to remain competative. (im sure you can imagine what AI is capable of if i fully open source it). I think its works in a fairly unique way, and i think i sufficiently demonstrate it. Some more details about roadmap and faq's here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical/p2p-messaging... |