Build your own little internet
Tonk is a copilot-friendly framework that helps developers build grassroots apps on decentralised, interoperable, private data stores.
If you're building personal apps for you and your friends, and want to keep them independent, flexible & discreet, then Tonk is for you.
Tonk is an opinionated state management framework for coding with AI. It's analogous to Ruby on Rails, but for AI, and optimised for putting users in control of their data (rather than platforms).
The principles guiding Tonk's development are:
- Any app from any ecosystem should be able to call any data from any user (if the user permits),
- Data custodians should reliably cede control to users,
- The infrastructure should be immune to feature creep and platform degradation.
Tonk achieves this with:
- Local-first architecture
- Integrations with your data*
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Distributed access control*
- under development
Part of a Malleable Software trend.
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Meeting notes april 1st, 2025
Quick catch up with [[Sam Gbafa]], founder of [[TinyCloud]], who I've worked with hacking on various local first / user...