Qbix/Platform on Hacker News

…a decade, that solves exactly this, and that I use in my own companies, but also give away for free https://github.com/Qbix/Platform What more can I do? I’m just some guy in Brooklyn, who never got funded by VCs (except Balaji’s fund) but…

comment by EGreg · 2026-09-28 · in Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

…MySQL/MariaDB. And recently it even added vector search for ranking results by similarity: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/main/platform/classes/... Documentation for the database layer is here: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/databas…

comment by EGreg · 2026-08-26 · in Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

The original source is here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/main/platform/classes/... Yes, these days I work with AI (Claude chat, usually) to do all the "last mile" things, like packaging, writing READMEs, etc. I iterate, do…

comment by EGreg · 2026-07-20 · in Standalone webserver written in pure PHP. No more need for nginx, php-fpm, etc.

…/github.com/Qbix/Q.js/blob/main/src/js/Q.minimal.js#L... And on the back end, you'd use it like this: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/classes/... Essentially, this can support a huge number of "variants" and within each…

comment by EGreg · 2026-05-27 · in Cloudflare Flagship

You could use this: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Example: https://freecities.app Video demos: https://vimeo.com/1141492621/23e8b84b8b Disclaimer: I built it. Lovingly, over 15+ years.

comment by EGreg · 2026-04-05 · in Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

…This is what we currently use to sandbox JS inside Browsers and Node (without anything extra) : https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/... I like tools like this, but they all seem to share the same underlying shape:…

comment by EGreg · 2026-04-01 · in Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls

…in our framework, that we use to play videos from youtube, vimeo, and a whole lot of other sites: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/... We currently already use video.js, and our framework us used all over the…

comment by EGreg · 2026-03-25 · in Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

I've been building a decentralized, open source platform at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform before it was cool. I don't think it's cool even now. I mostly got hate on HN every time I posted about it LOL. I think something about…

comment by EGreg · 2026-02-10 · in Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

We already have a pretty good sandbox in our platform: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/... It uses web workers on a web browser. So is this Deno Sandbox like that, but for server? I think Node has worker threads.

comment by EGreg · 2026-02-03 · in Deno Sandbox

…(making mysqlite and postgres adapters for instance) This was done in about 3 hours for instance: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/refactor/DbQuery/platf... You can see the speed for yourself. Here is my first speedrun livestreamed:…

comment by EGreg · 2026-01-06 · in Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

…still not in the main branch because there is more testing I want to have done before it's merged: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/refactor/DbQuery/platf... Here is my first speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6UFyIPYNY

comment by EGreg · 2025-12-30 · in Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

…and open source will have to match it. That’s why I have spent about $1 million to quietly build https://github.com/Qbix/Platform It is time to start rolling it out. This is supposed to be the People’s Platform. Anyone who is interested to…

comment by EGreg · 2025-11-28 · in EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Having said that, I am a big fan of CDNs. Your origin server can generate pages and that’s a lot better than static sites. If you want a decentralized Internet, don’t use the Web. Use something like Pears /…

comment by EGreg · 2025-11-26 · in Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery

…some people dug through the code and saw the value. But you can get all the code for free on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform . Yeah, there is obviously an element of flattery that people let go to their head. I have had ChatGPT repeatedly…

comment by EGreg · 2025-11-17 · in Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment?

…love to get your feedback. It’s designed to work independently or with the rest of our system. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/classes/...

comment by EGreg · 2025-10-13 · in JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in

…For now it’s already extremely full-featured, but still only web developers will be able to use it: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform If you do give it a try, come back here and write about your experience.

comment by EGreg · 2025-09-18 · in When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"

When I started https://github.com/Qbix/Platform over a decade I go I went with PHP for most request handling and Node.js for optional realtime handling (delivering messages over websockets, delivering notifications to devices etc) And I…

comment by EGreg · 2025-09-09 · in I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)

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story by EGreg · 2025-07-17 · 1 comment

…I have. I've actually built a general-purpose cache system. Several, in fact: Here's one for PHP: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/classes/... And here is for the Web: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/dc95bd85fa386e4…

comment by EGreg · 2025-07-04 · in Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

…HTTPS requests as a transport (so you can isolate secrets, credentials, etc.) from the web server: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/a4885f1b94cab5d83aeb...

comment by EGreg · 2025-06-30 · in Asynchronous Error Handling Is Hard

…out. We wanted to use it for caching data between tabs, so as not to hit the server again per tab: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/... It had the concept of a “main frame” that they would route all requests to…

comment by EGreg · 2025-04-03 · in Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs

…links to news articles in the README here if you want to understand what I think is the solution: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Qbix aims to do with Web 2.0 what the HTTP protocol and Web Browser / Server did with Web 1.0 (getting…

comment by EGreg · 2025-02-13 · in DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

Yes. We've used it extensively in all our company's projects for over 10 years: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform You can see some of the code written in it, just a few examples of how it can scale far beyond 200k lines:…

comment by EGreg · 2025-02-09 · in Q.js: All-in-One Front-End Framework That Can Replace Angular, React, Vue, etc.

…and add the latest framework du jour). Here it is, if you want it, it’s free and open source btw: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2025-02-05 · in I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)

…We use it to serve our own local communities: Here is the code: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Or if you want, contact me: greg at the domain qbix.com and I can help set it up for you.

comment by EGreg · 2025-01-21 · in Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

…and livestreaming). You can build your own Facebook or Twitter pretty quickly. Here it is: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform But I haven't really marketed it, at all. Almost no one on HN has heard of it. Only if someone takes the time to…

comment by EGreg · 2025-01-12 · in Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

…like this. But I might. Here it is, embedded in my larger library, but I might break it out: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/main/platform/classes/... Documentation: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/database…

comment by EGreg · 2024-10-07 · in Sq.io: jq for databases and more

…closed platforms, and enshittification. Here is an open source alternative to Twitter and Facebook: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2024-08-18 · in Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again

…their entire audience over to Twitter and hope they dont get deplatformed etc. It is why I work on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform And why I started https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf

comment by EGreg · 2024-07-25 · in Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse

…/ whatever). Here is a free and open alternative that I have been working on for 12 years: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Here is exactly how it would reinvent the profit-driven ecosystem behind the current centralized social networks:…

comment by EGreg · 2024-07-23 · in Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?

I built this and never sold out: Web2 open source tools: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ( https://qbix.com/ecosystem ) Web3 open source tools: https://github.com/orgs/Intercoin/repositories ( https://intercoin.org/applications ) Anyone…

comment by EGreg · 2024-07-02 · in Tech went from free love to pay-per-click

…decentralized and federated. I can count on one hand: Mastodon. Bluesky. I am working on fixing it: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Larger vision for 2025 and later: https://qbix.com/ecosystem

comment by EGreg · 2024-06-11 · in Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

Here is the framework powering it: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform We are approaching the final runway for releasing Qbix Platform 2.0 – "Where No One Has Gone Before" Feel free to poke around. It took us years to build this stuff,…

comment by EGreg · 2024-05-31 · in Show HN: A community portal built using our open source platform

…resources of Facebook or even Automattic. We worked very hard for 12 years on the foundations at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform but I am sure you can find many faults there. (I’d like to hear about them btw.) On the other hand, many…

comment by EGreg · 2024-05-16 · in The Downfall of DeviantArt

…of people in over 100 countries, and give it away for free to you here if you only look:: Web2: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Web2 Documentation: https://community.qbix.com Web3: https://github.com/Intercoin Web3 Documentation:…

comment by EGreg · 2024-05-02 · in Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows differences diminishing

…all the applications you’d want: https://qbix.com Hope it helps! About to release v2.0 on GitHub https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (And 5 years ago spun off https://intercoin.org/applications — we are still in the development stage on that…

comment by EGreg · 2023-10-16 · in Tech giants are hijacking the internet

…your github and think you might enjoy part-time discovering what we build. Here is the codebase: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2023-08-09 · in I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

You might also like our platform that we’ve been building for 12 years and are preparing to launch: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2023-08-06 · in Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol

…own community software with all the features of Facebook/Twitter/TikTok for their own community: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform We are about to roll out version 2.0 — I have never done this before but I would like to invite whoever wants…

comment by EGreg · 2023-07-26 · in Google vs. the Open Web

Ok. Here it is: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2023-07-14 · in WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser

…is why ( shameless plug warning ) I spent 12 years and $1 million dollars with my team to build it. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Use it — as 1 of hundreds of features, you can have your own analytics on your own database on your own…

comment by EGreg · 2023-07-04 · in Companies must stop using Google Analytics

…don't do it. I've had a similar situation with PHP, where we had written quite a large engine ( https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ) with many features ( https://qbix.com/features.pdf ) . It took advantage of the fact that PHP isolated each…

comment by EGreg · 2023-06-19 · in PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model

…to ship Groups for Android for example. Oh wait I have you one better — it has been 12 years and https://github.com/Qbix/Platform is only now almost ready to be released, as v2.0 Sure we “ship” it all the time, on github. We even released…

comment by EGreg · 2023-05-31 · in The Fear of Shipping (2012)

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story by EGreg · 2023-05-29 · 2 comments

…radically different but also PHP-native (since PHP 5), would you like to spend an hour playing with https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ? If you do, please share your experience in a comment. I’d love to hear it. I architected this framework…

comment by EGreg · 2023-05-11 · in Go with PHP

…way you can make it expensive to backdoor everyone in bulk, or shut down a platform altogether: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform If you spend an afternoon playing with, I think you’ll feel like you’re discovering superpowers (like Batman…

comment by EGreg · 2023-04-21 · in The coming war on end-to-end encryption

…than, say, Mastodon. Except us. It was a labor of love and cost me a million dollars to date: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform PS: If you play with it for a afternoon, post your experience or email me. I would be thrilled to hear about…

comment by EGreg · 2023-04-21 · in The coming war on end-to-end encryption

…for encoding nearby locations, and subscribing to changes taking place within a certain radius: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin... It isn't as easy as you think ... we wound up covering a circle with four…

comment by EGreg · 2023-03-26 · in Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems (2021)

…motive, and no one stuck around long enough to replicate their stack and give it to the people: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://github.com/Intercoin I believe in gift economies (science, wikipedia, open source) being superior to…

comment by EGreg · 2023-03-12 · in Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

…2.0 is released, with all the documentation, in 15 languages. Anyway it's free and open source at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Somewhere around 2017 I wrote a vision of where we were and how we can go further:…

comment by EGreg · 2023-01-29 · in Digital IDs are coming for everyone in every country (2024-2030)