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Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by bmcusick »

Fantastic. The web falling into the AmaGooBookSoft silos has been convenient, but it hasn't been good for censorship or personal sovereignty. Making it push-button easy to publish to IPFS a great way to return editorial control and ownership to individuals, without the downsides of needing to run and maintain servers.

I hope Hearth or someone like them expands beyond websites to self-publishing of store front ends, crypto payment, social feeds, real time video, and all the other services we expect AmaGooSoftBook to provide today. And to integrate Tor as necessary.

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by bmcusick »

Xeoncross wrote: post #3

I need to leave my mac running (or install IPFS on a VPS) so that if anyone wants to read my personal site there is a source online that can provide the content right?

Not necessarily. IPFS is sort of like Bittorrent on steroids. You can think of yourself as the first seeder of your website, but as long as there are other network participants that have a full copy of your site, your home PC doesn't need to be online for people to access it.

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by StavrosK »

bmcusick wrote: post #5
Xeoncross wrote: post #3

I need to leave my mac running (or install IPFS on a VPS) so that if anyone wants to read my personal site there is a source online that can provide the content right?

Not necessarily. IPFS is sort of like Bittorrent on steroids. You can think of yourself as the first seeder of your website, but as long as there are other network participants that have a full copy of your site, your home PC doesn't need to be online for people to access it.

Exactly. They do need to get a copy of your site first, though, and they do that by accessing it (so someone else needs to have visited your site first).

Otherwise, you can use https://www.eternum.io/ (which is a service we also made) to basically seed your site for a few cents a month.

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by StavrosK »

tomcooks wrote: post #2

Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too? It has a great community too [0]( http://beakerbrowser.com/ )

It's personal preference, some people will prefer Beaker, we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX.

By the way, I'll mention this here because it isn't evident on the Hearth page right now: You can get your own username on Eternum for free, and it will redirect to the latest hash that Hearth publishes (i.e. the latest version of your website) automatically.

You can do this even if you don't use Hearth (we have an API for it), here's an example with my username:

https://www.eternum.io/user/stavros/

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

Looks interesting, but I can't get it to work.

I've added some files to my Hearth folder, the menu bar icon changed to the "syncing" state and then seems to have got stuck like that. The finder integration doesn't work either, so I can't copy the Hearth link.

Re: Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

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Post by iagovar »

bmcusick wrote: post #5
Xeoncross wrote: post #3

I need to leave my mac running (or install IPFS on a VPS) so that if anyone wants to read my personal site there is a source online that can provide the content right?

Not necessarily. IPFS is sort of like Bittorrent on steroids. You can think of yourself as the first seeder of your website, but as long as there are other network participants that have a full copy of your site, your home PC doesn't need to be online for people to access it.

I'm a layman in this stuff, can IPFS sites be accesible from http?
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