Oh Atek is not ready for HN yet. If you saw the spork tool yesterday [1], that’s as far as we’ve gotten.
On “What is it.” Suppose you set up a server on your home LAN. Great: what can it do? Unless you configure DDNS or a static IP or similar, it can only serve apps to your LAN. What if your friend also had a home server and we could get them to connect and send messages, share files, etc? You could build some applications on that stack which are traditionally on commercial clouds.
So Atek will be something like a personal PaaS that’s consumer-friendly. The p2p tech is to make the apps on that PaaS socially connective with each other.
On “What is it.” Suppose you set up a server on your home LAN. Great: what can it do? Unless you configure DDNS or a static IP or similar, it can only serve apps to your LAN. What if your friend also had a home server and we could get them to connect and send messages, share files, etc? You could build some applications on that stack which are traditionally on commercial clouds.
So Atek will be something like a personal PaaS that’s consumer-friendly. The p2p tech is to make the apps on that PaaS socially connective with each other.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28915872