FamilyLeaf (YC W12) - Your Family's Private Social Network

Re:FamilyLeaf (YC W12) - Your Family's Private Social Network by zrail on Thursday November 08, 2012 @05:36PM (#4760274)

I wonder if there would be a market out there for some kind of host-your-own system like this. Run an app on your family's central machine and register YourFamily.examplehostedapp.com. The app does the work of keeping that domain name pointed at your machine and keeping a upnp tunnel open.

One interesting question is backups. Encrypted snapshots to S3, maybe?

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Re:FamilyLeaf (YC W12) - Your Family's Private Social Network by sluckxz on Thursday November 08, 2012 @07:25PM (#4760643)

I would be part of that market if something nice was available.

I have test installed a diaspora pod as well as a libertree tree. Diaspora has its well documented issues and libertree is still bleeding edge.

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Re:FamilyLeaf (YC W12) - Your Family's Private Social Network by pclark on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:14PM (#4760409)

who self-hosts anything in 2012?

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Re:FamilyLeaf (YC W12) - Your Family's Private Social Network by eric-hu on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:25PM (#4760455)

Some people who use Tor do

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