I wanted to share my project here officially, the ORIGINAL place for all things Safe Network, err, Autonomi. Colony is a cross platform (Linux, Windows, and Mac) desktop application written completely in Rust, using the Slint UI GUI framework. The main goal of this project is to make Autonomi successful by delivering to this network what made the WWW successful: a search bar. An interface so intuitive and easy to use, anyone can use it. The difference here is that search is done locally on the client so no middleman looking over your shoulder and no corporations or governments manipulating the underlying data.
For users only downloading files, you don’t need to have ANT/ETH tokens. All you need to do is download the app on any desktop computer and you’re up and running. Simple.
Want to run Colony on a different computer? Or maybe you lost access to the machine you originally installed Colony on? No problem! Input your 12 word seed phrase to restore all of your data directly from Autonomi.
More than an app, Colony is working with other IF projects like Stashbag and SOMA to leverage the same metadata and search framework. The end goal is to create a simple standard to enable seamless interoperability of your data between Autonomi applications. No lock-in, no problems.
I’ll be giving a short pitch on the discord stage tomorrow, but the longer form video where I dig into all the details can be found here: Introducing Colony
As for status, the app skeleton is in place. Honestly its about a third of the way done at this point, with the installation, configuration, key generation, and key management logic in place. Here’s the obligatory screenshot:
Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts and seeing all the other projects on IF. After all these years we’ve finally got the network, let’s go use it!
