I’m a newish solo dev, about 7 months in now, and for the last 6-7 months, i been working on my first project, Concord on a simple thought; I’m tired of watching ads, paying subscriptions, switching apps and knowing my data is being used to fuel the bs. every tool should read and write the same underlying data object instead of each app siloing your data just to trade to each other, maybe it’s just me but it’s weird knowing someone got my info and I don’t even know them. So I needed a way to fix the issue cuz complaining is half the battle. The fix was the atomic unit , DTU (Discrete Thought Unit) structured knowledge object with human, machine, and citation layers. They fuel the “lens architecture” (there’s over 100 of them: concord chat, code editor, finance tracker, music studio, atlas, EHR…) is just a view over that one substrate. Make something in one lens, cite it in another, and a royalty cascade pays the original creator down the citation lineage, perpetually. I also got pissed at the game industry for all the dlc, subscriptions, and stale npcs etc so I made a full 3D MMO (Concordia) running on the same substrate — an emergent civilization sim with CK3-style politically-modeled NPCs (schemes, secrets, grudges) who are fully embodied characters with daily schedules you can walk up to and talk to. Also a combat system and more The game’s ledger and the productivity tools’ ledger are the same ledger. Now I’m not saying I’m done or anything, I’m saying I’d like help, because the goal is to make a service for users who don’t want their data stolen, pay subscriptions, or watch ads and with the rising cost of living creating a way to put money back into the hands of who make any of these platforms possible . Plus I get creeped out by the fact our private data is used against us so yea I making it private and user centered Stack: Node monolith + SQLite (synchronous, no ORM), Next.js/Three.js frontend, self-hosted Ollama models for the AI (no per-token cost), a few specialized model roles. Thankfully i can handle the 400$ a month once we have users and out of development phase but until then ill be practicing th burst method while tightening what’s left Honest state: runpod server currently down for a few days, call me broke if you want, but it costs 400 a month to run the platform via Runpod, and I’m still in development so I have it up in bursts to avoid the full month fee It can be found at <concord-os.org> when it is up and I’ll update this thread when I do. The money layer is real — double-entry ledger, Stripe in, signature-verified — and it fails safe (no path where you think you bought something and didn’t). A lot of the depth is built but still being surfaced: the systems exist; making them legible in the UI is the ongoing work. I’d rather you find the rough edges than have me hide them. There’s a bunch more but I’m trying to underhype, nah mean? I’m not looking for a hype coaster I’m looking for people who like open source projects and don’t mind helping users beyond extracting from them. If you have expertise in building any app, I don’t care what the specialty is, feel free to further develop a lens or make a new one if I haven’t already Currently we’re at 1,370 test files. With over 20k written tests. Behavior suite auto-derives a contract test for every backend macro at CI time, so a newly-wired feature is covered the moment it exists. Three tiers: auto-derived smoke, contract math (the money cascade, etc.), and end-to-end journeys. Also taking any advice and ideas, I’m admittedly new to this stuff which is why I haven’t moved as fast as others