Town OS

P2P Platform

A distribution to enable non-technical people to run their own storage and compute at home

Community

Links

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Details

License

Not yet publicly released; planned MPL-2.0

Dev Status 🧪 Alpha

Dev Status Detail

Early Alpha

Owner

Erik Hollensbe / Evolutionary Enterprises

Country

United States

Start Year 2025

Stack

Rust with some React

Funding

None announced

Last Investigated Mar 9, 2026

Use Case Domains

Group Formation & Governance

Platform Evolution & Sovereignty

Affordances

Self-hostable

Composable groups

P2P Platform Attributes

Origins

Self-hosting / Personal cloud

Database

SQLite / ZFS

Query Language

Object storage planned

Data Formats

N/A (early alpha)

Collaborative Live Editing

iCloud-like sync planned

Rich Text Editing

Supports serving HTTP servers

Mobile Support

N/A (early alpha)

Web Support

N/A (early alpha)

Native Apps

N/A (early alpha)

Terms

Planned MPL-2.0

Funds

None announced

Based On

Original platform (personal home server distribution)

P2P Architecture

Local-first self-hosting (home server distribution; not P2P mesh)

Development Tools

N/A (early alpha; no developer SDK/API announced yet)

Deployment Options

Self-hosted home server (bare metal or dedicated hardware); designed for non-technical users to run storage and compute locally

Authentication & Identity

N/A (early alpha; no authentication system documented yet)

Storage Model

Local storage on ZFS filesystem with SQLite database; iCloud-like sync planned for future

Interoperability

N/A (early alpha; no documented interoperability with other protocols)

Social Graph

No (personal storage/compute platform, not social networking)