Qbix/Platform on Hacker News

…But most VCs and investors don’t understand it and say we are doing too much. You can use it here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Then in 2018 I launched a spinoff company to create Web3 smart contracts for communities to govern…

comment by EGreg · 2023-01-29 · in Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

…I'll be honest, we applied to many VCs when we starting out building https://github.com/Qbix/Platform for instance. But it was just too open-source and too general-purpose to be of interest to most VCs. To his credit, Albert We

comment by EGreg · 2023-01-04 · in A16Z is the “worst and largest” scammer of all, says CEO of Swan Bitcoin (2022)

…Mastodon and you can see below why that matters. Would you check it out? It's free and open source: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Not only have we built it, but we've interviewed a ton of people around the broader topics of capitalism…

comment by EGreg · 2022-12-18 · in Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/268ad94a9c5f5b2913a0... Please take a look and give me your thoughts here. We don't want security by obscurity. The comment there says this: This function could be the key to us downloading new…

comment by EGreg · 2022-12-18 · in Ask HN: Is this secure? Hot updates using arbitrary PHP code execution.

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Ask HN: Is this secure? Hot updates using arbitrary PHP code execution.

story by EGreg · 2022-12-18 · 2 comments

…Here you can use this to build your own Twitter, complete with video broadcasts peer to peer: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2022-12-12 · in Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

…JS, CSS as they were intended. Every concept should work well with all the others. Result is at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform if you want to give any feedback. We have been using it for ALL our projects since 2011.

comment by EGreg · 2022-12-11 · in Breaking up with JavaScript front ends

…needed: https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/ If you want to try it yourself: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform If you want to play around with it, it’s free to use. The platform is ready for use but needs a lot more…

comment by EGreg · 2022-11-06 · in Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

…though they may be just wording/messaging. Let me dissect just half of the first sentence from https://github.com/Qbix/Platform , and what springs to mind reading it: > Our company spent 10 years building a decentralized Social Operating…

comment by mkl · 2022-11-06 · in Mastodon Explained

Have you even clicked https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ? Qbix is an open source platform that doesn't require a token for anything. You can use it, with absolutely no encumbrances or needing to buy any token at all. There is zero need,…

comment by EGreg · 2022-11-06 · in Mastodon Explained

…own community apps, if you want you can quickly stand up an alternative to what Zuck and Elon run: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform If you want to play around with it, it’s free to use. The platform is ready for use but needs a lot more…

comment by EGreg · 2022-11-05 · in Mastodon Explained

…last 10 years, I've architected two large platforms and code bases, and iterated over many years: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://github.com/Intercoin It takes care of everything from MVC to WebRTC to PaymentRequests to Web3 to…

comment by EGreg · 2022-09-11 · in The case for building something wonderful alone

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform is as full-stack as it gets Most other frameworks don’t include things like websockets and Web Push notifications, as well as support for WebRTC, payments etc. So where do you draw the line?

comment by EGreg · 2022-06-28 · in Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno

I would love for you to try this one and hear your feedback: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform It takes the best ideas from CodeIgniter, Symfony, Kohana, Drupal and Doctrine…

comment by EGreg · 2022-02-03 · in Bittersweet Symfony: Devs accidentally turn off CSRF protection in PHP framework

Well if you are looking for a Social Operating System… https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Labor of love for a decade

comment by EGreg · 2022-01-16 · in Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

…and family, and angels, made around a million dollars in revenues, and reinvested it all into the https://github.com/Qbix/Platform - an open source alternative to Facebook et al. Got 10 million users in 95+ countries to download our apps…

comment by EGreg · 2022-01-11 · in YC’s $500k Standard Deal

At the risk of shilling my own project: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform It does a few things differently ;-) Feedback welcome!

comment by EGreg · 2021-10-22 · in Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server

…we say gently excluded from the economy due to their rating. This builds on my earlier work on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform to build an open source alternative to Web 2.0 platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc. EDIT: I am curious. For a…

comment by EGreg · 2021-10-17 · in The Ideal Economy

If you want to unravel async loops without leaks etc. I think you may want to steal this function: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/01604218d06ed158c921ab... (There are many other cool things in that js file btw)

comment by EGreg · 2021-09-15 · in Unravelling `Async for` Loops

…dollars building, rather than just talk about it, I get silent downvotes. Watch, I will do it here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2021-07-28 · in Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

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Qbix: Open-Source Social Operating System for the Web

story by EGreg · 2021-07-18 · 0 comments

…10 years building this, and to offer the same things people are used to with Facebook or Telegram: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2021-07-18 · in A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017)

…alternative to Facebook and Google, that you can run on your own servers, you can find it here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2021-07-16 · in Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

…want in 2021. You can’t just make a face book of ... “Profiles”. Trust me we’ve been working on https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and we only recently reached the point where people’s main complaint is the APPEARANCE hahaha

comment by EGreg · 2021-03-02 · in The Web’s Missing Interoperability

Here is the clickable link: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (If you want to contribute to the project, or get involved, you are welcome to get in touch also with greg at the domain qbix.com )

comment by EGreg · 2021-01-11 · in A decentralized alternative to Facebook, Zoom, et al.

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A decentralized alternative to Facebook, Zoom, et al.

story by EGreg · 2021-01-11 · 9 comments

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Qbix: An OSS Facebook alternative, with videoconferencing,chats,events,payments

story by EGreg · 2021-01-10 · 5 comments

…into an open source platform that would be an alternative to Facebook / LinkedIn / Google etc. ( https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ). And then I started an experimental project to "disrupt" our own company and decentralize the Web even…

comment by EGreg · 2021-01-03 · in The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious

…all this stuff, so if anyone here wants to put a globe on their website, just load our Q.js from https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and then render the Q/globe tool and Places/countries selector tool with your own options. Unlike the GitHub…

comment by EGreg · 2020-12-31 · in How We Built the GitHub Globe

…way that Wordpress is an alternative to medium.com How do we submit here our open source platform https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2020-12-23 · in Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives

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Qbix Platform 1.1 has been released (Open Source Social Operating System)

story by EGreg · 2020-11-08 · 0 comments

…you dig into it and maybe record yourself on youtube. Any way I can be of assistance, let me know. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2020-08-31 · in The Architecture of Open Source Applications

…which work seamlessly with SPA pages, events and more: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/tools https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2020-07-17 · in Ways to make a web component

…Our implementation has been open sourced, and is compatible with oAuth and other specs like DID: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

comment by EGreg · 2020-07-12 · in The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized

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Show HN: Qbix Platform 1.1 – open-source social operating system for the Web

story by EGreg · 2020-07-05 · 0 comments

…we want our platform to be the next Wordpress and liberate the Web from Feudalism to a free market: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (Here is the larger vision, not realized yet: https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Distributed-Operating-.…

comment by EGreg · 2020-04-30 · in The Open Web Is Dying

…you take the below as a “Show HN” We built it over the last 10 years and we’re giving it away: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform We are still working on updating the documentation tob be as cool as for Angular and React. But it’s more than…

comment by EGreg · 2020-04-30 · in The Open Web Is Dying

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Show HN: Build your own Facebook, own your own data

story by EGreg · 2020-04-29 · 1 comment

…you take the below as a “Show HN” We built it over the last 10 years and we’re giving it away: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform We are still working on updating the documentation tob be as cool as for Angular and React. But it’s more than…

comment by EGreg · 2020-04-29 · in Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone

We built one https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Just install it and video conferencing is one of the free features out of the box All you do is call Q.Streams.WebRTC.start()

comment by EGreg · 2020-03-24 · in Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

…videoconferencing is not easy But hey ours is open source and not locked into Twilio or these guys: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Search for the string WebRTC

comment by EGreg · 2020-03-17 · in OpenVidu: Open-source, multi-platform, WebRTC videoconferences

We built a lot of things with Vanilla JS. You can find them all here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin... And the documentation: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/javascript It's open source so feel free to rip…

comment by EGreg · 2020-02-04 · in Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

…standard du jour. It's super short and simple, you can implement similar things in your projects: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin... https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/plugin...

comment by EGreg · 2020-02-04 · in Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

…(to videochat or even screenshare). If you’re a developer it’s open source so you can grab it at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and just build whatever on it.

comment by EGreg · 2019-11-21 · in How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace

…it look like? I have been building it, writing about it and giving it away: https://qbix.com/blog https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://qbix.com/token Every time I post this on HN, it gets heavily downvoted. But I don’t ever hear why. I…

comment by EGreg · 2019-11-11 · in The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform seems to be mainly PHP, the DB is MySQL and I saw jQuery and Flash widgets mentioned in the docs. Isn't that exactly what the post says, not hot tech but solves the problem?

comment by PhilippGille · 2019-10-29 · in New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving

…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI You can find the entire general purpose platform here: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform And even though we had done all this, we have not yet started to popularize it. We wanted to get the kinks…

comment by EGreg · 2018-08-12 · in Why decentralized social networking never makes it

…building location based search at Qbix. All of it is available now for free in the Places plugin: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/master/platform/plugin... First of all, we normally do our sharding by the hash of the primary key.…

comment by EGreg · 2018-07-20 · in Geosharded Recommendations with Hilbert Curve at Tinder

…accounts (think turning git into github) without reinventing the wheel you are welcome to the code https://github.com/Qbix/Platform It is licensed under AGPL so if you want to keep your code private and not open source it to your website…

comment by EGreg · 2018-06-05 · in The web apps that will eat mobile

…the Qbix Platform. It does tons of stuff including sharding and autogenerating model code for you: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/classe... https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/master/platform/classe...

comment by EGreg · 2018-06-03 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?