Group Income

Aplicación Descentralizada Extensible

Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted group coordination platform built around a basic-income mechanism: groups pool a "mincome" and members in surplus contribute to those in need. Has matured into a richer collaboration suite with E2EE chat, audio/video players, polls, file sharing, message drafts, group governance, and per-channel notification settings. Built on the Chelonia framework, which okTurtles is progressively factoring out as a reusable substrate for building E2EE collaborative apps

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Licencia AGPL-3.0 (github.com/okTurtles/group-income)
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Detalle del Estado de Desarrollo Released (production) — v2.8 (April 2026); active feature development and underlying Chelonia framework updates
Propietario okTurtles Foundation (501(c)(3) non-profit; supported by donations in USD, BTC, XMR, ZEC)
Órgano de Gobierno okTurtles Foundation (501(c)(3) non-profit)
País USA
Año de Inicio 2015
Stack Vue.js (frontend); Hapi.js (backend); Chelonia framework; Grunt build system; Cypress E2E tests
Financiamiento okTurtles Foundation donations (USD, BTC, XMR, ZEC); developer travel and event funding from foundation
Última Investigación 1 jul 2026

Dominios de Caso de Uso

Co-creación y Conocimiento

Aplicación Descentralizada Extensible Atributos

Orígenes okTurtles Foundation
Base de Datos Chelonia content-addressed encrypted log storage on home server; IndexedDB / browser storage for local cache; ephemeral state in app memory
Lenguaje de Consulta N/A — Chelonia API exposes contract operations; no SQL-style query layer
Formatos de Datos JSON; SBP (Selector-Based Programming) message protocol
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo Yes — real-time group chat with E2EE
Edición de Texto Enriquecido Markdown rendering in chat messages with table support
Soporte Móvil Progressive Web App (responsive web client)
Soporte Web Yes (primary delivery channel)
Aplicaciones Nativas No (PWA only)
Términos Open source AGPL-3.0; official server at groupincome.app provided as a free service
Fondos Unknown — okTurtles Foundation publishes annual receipts (e.g., FY2022: $11,122 + 4.49 BTC + 132.91 XMR + 34.73 ZEC) but does not break out a per-project Group Income allocation
Basado En Chelonia framework (E2EE federated app protocol developed by okTurtles); Shelter Protocol
Herramientas de Desarrollo Chelonia framework exposes contract API for building E2EE collaborative apps; chel CLI for Chelonia development; documented at okTurtles foundation resources
Opciones de Despliegue Self-host (any group can run own Group Income server on Node.js infrastructure); use official groupincome.app instance
Autenticación e Identidad Username + password (Chelonia-based scheme designed to be more secure than typical web logins per okTurtles)
Modelo de Almacenamiento Server stores encrypted blobs; clients decrypt locally with user-held keys
Interoperabilidad Built on Chelonia framework which okTurtles positions as reusable substrate for other E2EE collaborative apps
Grafo Social Group-bounded — membership graph within each group is private to members; no public follow/follower model; intentional privacy-first design
Categoría de Caso de Uso Mutual aid; group coordination; basic-income / income-sharing collectives; collaborative communication
Tipo de Interfaz de Usuario Web app (PWA); responsive UI with redesigned settings menus and dashboard
Capacidades sin Conexión Limited — message drafts preserved across channel switches; loaded media cached to avoid redundant downloads
Funciones de Colaboración E2EE chat, audio/video player, polls, file attachments, draft messages, @-mentions, channel notifications, group governance
Portabilidad de Datos Self-hostable server (Chelonia-based); user data is encrypted with user-held keys
Ecosistema de Integraciones Fediverse social presence (Group Income on Crib.social); GitHub Discussions forum; Slack community; minimal third-party integrations because E2EE design constrains external connectors
Exportación de Datos de Web2 Not specified
Coherencia Prosocial Strong — mutual aid framing; mincome-based wealth redistribution within groups; cooperative governance assumptions; nonprofit (okTurtles Foundation) stewardship
Flujos Económicos Mincome (basic-income) pooling and redistribution among group members; surplus contributors fund members in need
Gobernanza y Toma de Decisiones Group-level proposals and voting; configurable group settings
Medios / Publicación E2EE media within groups (video, audio, file attachments); not a public publishing platform
Gestión del Conocimiento Chat-anchored — markdown messages, file attachments, search within group; not a structured knowledge base tool
Sensemaking Limited — polls and voting support group decisions; no dedicated sensemaking primitives
Gestión de Proyectos Limited — group coordination through chat and polls; no dedicated kanban/task system
Modelo de Comunicación E2EE group chat with channels; @-mentions; reply threading
Resiliencia de Red Server-based with E2EE; clients can in principle move between Chelonia-compatible servers
Mecanismo de Descubrimiento Group invites (link-based); username-based mention lookup
Participantes Máximos Designed for small-to-medium mutual-aid groups; tested with multi-user E2E tests
Soberanía de Datos High — E2EE means server cannot read content; private keys held by users