I’m so thrilled to have a presentation today at the weekly ecosystem meeting. Thank you all for the warm welcome! <3
Planet is a native macOS app for building and hosting decentralized websites on IPFS + ENS. You can use it to follow the updates from other ENS websites too. Content is hosted with a local IPFS node, so cloud is not required.
Thanks for sharing the demo @planetable.eth Really easy to understand the possibilities with this. You mentioned working on an Electron App instead of this being solely macOS app. I would like to see your user base grow to those who don’t have/use macOS.
For your question 1, yes, if your local node is the only node that holds the content, you need to be online so that others can follow you.
Later, we will introduce integration with Pinning services, then as soon as you get confirmations from remote pinning services, you will not need to be always online.
For your question 2, if I understood it correctly, for now, we only have the macOS version created with Swift UI 3. I heard from the community that someone is working on an Electron port.
excellent work congratulations , i was looking into the template and thinking to myself how cool it would be if it was Jekyll engine and then would open the door to already existing thousand of templates, then i remembered Github support jekyll for their gh-pages… imagine in the future you push your repository to Github and you can select to be hosted instead of gh-pages with “plantable/IPFS/ENS”
Feature parity with major static site generators is a goal of this project.
I have used Jekyll and Zola extensively before. While they are super powerful, I often came to this question, what if they have an easy-to-use GUI? Instead of embedding a YouTube player, what is needed to support local video hosting and playing? How about Podcast?
So one goal for Planet is to make it work as a static site generator with a GUI. And IPFS enabled local video and audio hosting and playing without relying on a big cloud.
Meanwhile, a team member is working on a new feature to add a folder as a Published Folder. So it can turn any local folder into an IPNS, and Planet would keep watching its changes. So we will be able to support publishing the result from any existing static site generators.
, i was looking into the template and thinking to myself how cool it would be if it was Jekyll engine and then would open the door to already existing thousand of templates, then i remembered Github support jekyll for their gh-pages… imagine in the future you push your repository to Github and you can select to be hosted instead of gh-pages with “plantable/IPFS/ENS”
