noosphere VS fireproof

Subconscious | Full-time | REMOTE - Hiring globally, current team is San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Brisbane

At Subconscious, we’re building new infrastructure for an internet of ideas.

Noosphere is a next generation network protocol; a worldwide content graph (no blockchain though).

Subconscious is a social note-taking app powered by Noosphere and AI.

Our founders are former browser engineers from Google and Mozilla. We are a small, funded team of four.

We're looking for a few more folks to help bring our work into the world. Specifically, we are hiring:

- DevOps: you should know the ins and outs of cloud infrastructure orchestration and its interplay with deployed applications and services

- Cryptography/Privacy: help us make strong guarantees about public and private information, and bring user legibility to content provenance and authority

Some topical links:

- Subconscious Blog: https://subconscious.substack.com/

- Noosphere Project: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere

If you are interested, please drop us a line to introduce yourself at [email protected]

Source code: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere

Currently we have a CLI that demonstrates multi-device synchronization in principle. You can install it using `cargo install noosphere-cli` (it installs a binary called "orb"). We also have pre-built binaries of orb for x86_64 Linux that you can find on our releases on Github (e.g., https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/releases/ta...). We'll be expanding our pre-built binaries to include other platforms soon.

Also, we have recently released a Swift package that gives a path to easily install our project as a dependency in XCode. We're turning the corner on offering the same FFI backing implementation as a TypeScript + WASM package, too. But, as I mentioned it's early days for us, so set your expectations accordingly.

The best way to stay up to date with new things you can do is join our Discord. I make regular announcements there about our technical progress.

Plug: I'm working with the author on a decentralized protocol for networked thought and a companion browser called Subconscious. We're a very young project and just getting off the ground.

If you're interested in topics like the one in the article, all our work is open source and we love getting into it with folks on Github or our Discord (link in the README): https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere

Doing a js-ipfs backend would be straightforward and wouldn't change the app API, so it totally makes sense to do that. I tend to see it as a both/and situtation, and the current core makes no assumptions about network either way. Adding web3.storage was just a ~200 loc React hook, so I bet the js-ipfs bridge would also be that easy.

Here's the Fireproof GitHub repo, and here's the website. Thanks! Chris