Textile Hub: databases, storage, and remote IPFS for app builders (opens in new tab)

True! Go is our main language and a powerhouse for us, but we've not given it enough love in examples or docs. We'll fix it.

That wouldn't be bad if done right! I think there are still "Firebase of IPFS" products yet to come. What we do that is a bit different is that we allow devs to claim some hosted resources (IPFS, Threads, etc) and then grant access to those resources to their users. But what is different than most web2 is that the end-users can still own and keep their data (through encryption, pk identity, content addressed data).

It's funny. Web2 got so many things right, but early Web3 often tried so hard to abandon it all that it made for a lot of unnecessary pains. We've tried to take a more balanced approach. Decentralized where it makes sense (user data ownership, interoperable data models, data storage) and hosted/curated nodes where it makes sense (app resources, trustless services/gateways, relay services). We think we've come up with something compelling and pretty simple.

A couple of details:

- ThreadsDB is a database and protocol. A lot of our work on Threads (particularly Follower or Service keys was aimed at the problems you bring up exactly). https://blog.textile.io/introducing-textiles-threads-protoco...

- We love the 3box team and product and its probably come a long way since if you haven't poked around recently. We are also working with them to make sure our things are interoperable with theirs. So look out for more updates in this area soon.

This makes me wonder how a decentralized system can grow if nobody shares their resources.

I haven't seen anything big in WASM on Textile yet. It should be done for sure. We use Slack because it was there and worked when we needed something. Onboarding is easy, our chats are open to the public already, and we didn't need anything fancier than there free plan.

We've been considering a move to Keybase but haven't made the move yet. Matrix is also the jam so we can just be everywhere at once... but we don't have the demand yet.

Where would you like to see us?