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Product / Idea

Describe your project and the problem it solves

Internet services suffer from centralization which hinders innovation. We develop open source platform for uncensorable communication and services that would be available in an app store. Our first apps are Social Network, Group Decision (on blockchain) and Finances.

What stage is your company/product in?

Development

GitHub Repository or any other link for further documentation

https://github.com/akhavr/johngalt/blob/master/p2p.content.md

Which blockchain do you use, and why does it help to solve your problem?

We develop custom per-app blockchains over IPFS. An example could be seen at https://github.com/42cc/evox

IPFS provides p2p reliable network storage and communication with immutable data and ability to route around filters.

Team

Where do you live now, and where is the team based?

Me - Kyiv, Ukraine

Initially project team is also in Kyiv, but the plan is to have distributed team of enthusiasts across the globe without single person or company controlling project development

How many people are in your team, and what do they do?

Me, my software development team from 42 Coffee Cups, Maxim Orlovsky from BICA Labs

Users

What existing solutions are there for this problem?

Uncensorable app protocols:

  • DarkNet: TOR, I2P, Freenet
  • ZeroNet
  • Maidsafe

Social Networks:

  • synereo (still in development)
  • diaspora (very few users)

Group Decisions (voting) on blockchain:

  • BitCongress
  • BitNation
  • DASH masternode budget voting

Finances: alot, we plan to integrate with most of them and likely will use OpenTransaction as a main vehicle.

Who are your competitors and how are you different? Please include URLs

ZeroNet https://zeronet.io/

The closest project.

Pro: already working and deployed with 200+ forks and 30+ contributors

Cons:

  • developed their own p2p network code
  • hard to convert existing apps
  • no built-in storage

Maidsafe http://maidsafe.net/

Most known project to run distributed apps (after Etherium :)

Pro:

  • most known
  • has a solid team
  • raised funding through crowdsale

Cons:

  • in development for years, yet still to release a version for public testing

Synereo http://www.synereo.com/

Next-get social platform

Pro:

  • solid team with technical backing from Etherium

Cons:

  • focused on attention management
  • underfunded (planned to raise $1.2m during crowdsale, raised ~$125K)
  • no public code yet

How many users do you currently have?

0, we're in the development stage right now

How do you plan to acquire more users?

We see a strong grass-roots demand for an easy-to-use tool for collective action. That's why it would be easy to get initial groups to use the platform.

We see a great interest from developers side. Since it's very easy to convert regular web app to serve in our network, we expect a good deal of services to be available very soon. Initial feedback also says that the first apps besides basic, would be content and finances .

To populate the social network part with the initial data we will create Facebook and Twitter import scripts and apps to interact with them from within the network.

Other

How did you hear about this program?

Epicentre Bitcoin