I’m edging around some of it in Ibis and Rufous, but yeah, I’m trying to avoid anything that needs direct FDA approvals which severely limits what I can build

If I was to build something like this, could you beta test? Sounds like a fun weekend project for me 😄

Buddy of mine is working on something like this: https://git.circuitforge.tech/eva/focus-flow

Working on the second: https://menagerie.circuitforge.tech/snipe

Still early days but the filters and trust scoring work really well

Oi,I feel you so hard on this, as a software developer who works on medical devices and software used in medical contexts, holy shit the pickings are so bad.

Why can’t someone just conjure up solutions to all of this (which is totally doable technically)? Because FDA regulation forces us to follow Byzantine release processes and meet very exacting requirements for the software end product.

I could probably knock together at least two or three of your wishlist items in a week, and it would take 1-3 years for it to make it to the first customer. Even patches and fixes I build for existing products take 3-6 months to make it out the door after they’re done.

All of that to say, these make friction points that make it difficult for developers to coordinate and standardize without introducing mountains of extra bullshit that didn’t need to actually be in the product or software in the first place

Work in progress, but I’m building something like this: https://circuitforge.tech/software/pagepiper

The features you’re describing would be fairly easy to add to what’s already there

Working on it soon: https://git.circuitforge.tech/Circuit-Forge/crossbill https://circuitforge.tech/software/crossbill

The shared core and application framework is solid, but I have been focusing on Peregrine mostly as I’m trying to help my partner find a job. If I had some more beta testers, I would be able to start on more of the apps I have planned:

https://circuitforge.tech/software

Still a work in progress, but a friend of mine is building exactly that: https://git.circuitforge.tech/eva/focus-flow

FYI I got the demo spun up this week!

https://oasis.circuitforge.tech/

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making things fool proof is that fools are quite ingenious little buggers.

That’s my specialty! My goal with my projects has always been to lower the barrier to entry while compromising as little as possible on things that matter. I remember everything Google and Apple built before they started dumbing it down and removing features. I remember how much effort went into onboarding users and making sure people could adopt things easily. It didn’t always work, but I’ve been very successful in making my entire de-google’d stack useful to my own family.

The hardest part is done, now I just need to make it replicable for others to spin up their own. If you’re interested, I’ve got a repo scaffolded but I haven’t published the actual stack installer yet: https://git.circuitforge.tech/Circuit-Forge/turaco/issues

Saying it’ll never happen and giving up won’t make that 2% get any bigger

Make the tools easy enough that the irritation of the original platform gives them enough of a push to try something easy to use.

If you want to help beta test, I’m working on an appliance-level automated installer for provisioning home cloud servers.

Got friends who need help? Help them or send them my way (or to your nearest techie)

Decouple people from big tech, allow people to run, fix, and maintain their own hardware instead of replacing it on an industrial scale every 6-9 months and centralizing ownership in data centers.

My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array with a battery. Net negative. It’s totally doable.

Edit: also I tested my stack against a stimulated 1k active users and couldn’t get it to break a sweat, so I’m not saying everyone needs to do things this way, but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance