s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
Details
- External ID
- 47344548
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
- Website domain
- satproto.org
- Launched
- March 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 414
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.991389913899139
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- social network built on static sites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system is an entirely static client-side web application leveraging web crypto (X25519) and fetching raw JSON files over standard HTTPS/GitHub Pages.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: IPFS, Matrix/Commet, Discord self-hosted alternatives, Craigslist, Google Sites
Concerns raised: Losing 2FA device means losing all account access without recovery, Private key backups too complex for average users, Self-hosting creates barriers vs. ease of centralized services, High switching costs and vendor lock-in prevent adoption, Lack of transparency and accountability from service providers
Feature requests: Build archiving/mirroring into protocol, Implement account recovery mechanism like Google/PayPal/Github, Simplify backup workflow (email key instead of download), Add /.well-known standard index for service discovery, Decentralized cloud option (not just self-host or centralized)
Competitors
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Attention rank: #3 of 630 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 128 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.