nicholasreed

I've been a paying Heroku customer for a decade, with multiple businesses (a surf company, tennis reservation system) and personal projects hosted without issue.

On Tuesday, I woke up to sites down and my login not working. No emails from Heroku. After emailing support, I got an automated response that I'd been banned for violations of the Acceptable Use Policy. No details, just instantly dropped.

I've sent 10s of emails to every Heroku and Salesforce support and security department, called the SF offices, and tried social media. I still have no idea why my account was suspended, and apparently I have no recourse to get my company data back (backups, credentials...everything is through the Heroku login).

Heroku is trying to put me out of business, I recommend you leave them before they do the same to you!

Second's goal is to be your fully decentralized, AI twin that runs everywhere (in the cloud, in your browser, on your phone or smart tv), managing all your data, connections, and software. You give it instructions, and it follows them, answering only to you.

Decentralization has three major problems:

- Identity: how do I know I'm talking to you? ("Zooko's Triangle" = decentralized, secure, human-addressable) What is your reputation for X transaction? Where can I find Y thing that you made?

- Language and Storage: What is the format of the data we exchange, where is the data stored, and who has access?

- Hosting/Install/Upgrades: The UX of installing software sucks for programmers, even more so for non-programmers. How does a non-technical user install/upgrade without knowing anything technical?

Second solves those problems:

- Identity: stored on the Stellar blockchain as usernames/namespaces.

- Language and Storage: everything is a "node" that has a "type" that defines the schema of the data. NodeChains are tied to identities, have permissions, and are easily mirror-able over IPFS.

- Hosting/Install/Upgrades: a Second is a thin shell around a VM that runs nodes (nodes are both data and logic). Upgrading capabilities or UIs is as simple as replacing nodes (based on who you trust).

Two videos are on the homepage that give a technical overview (basically same as above, with a few more details), and a walkthrough of the alpha software.

https://www.getasecond.com