Drafts & Explorations
These are explorations, not commitments. Concept-level work we want in public so people can react, but that has not yet matured into something we will ship and stand behind. The home page leads with what's actually live; this page is the sketchpad behind it.
/drafts and shows up on the home page or in its own product site (the way
SoTranscribe did at sotranscribe.com).
The three-paths CTA
Was on the home page in v1.0–v1.3. Demoted in v1.4 because it confuses readers alongside one shipping product.
The original home-page hypothesis was that readers want to pick a lane based on what they are already comfortable changing. The three lanes:
Move your email and calendar
The single highest-leverage switch. Email is your account-recovery hub for everything else.
Where you'd be going: Proton, Tuta, or Infomaniak (Swiss).
Lock down your phone
De-Google your Android, or set sane defaults on iOS. Keep your apps. Stop the leak.
Where you'd be going: GrapheneOS, /e/OS, or hardened iOS.
Switch your desktop
Familiar UI, open source under the hood. You keep your workflow, you stop bleeding telemetry.
Where you'd be going: OpenMac, OpenWindows, or a sane Linux defaults distro.
We may bring this back when we have more than one shipping product to anchor it — at that point a lane-picker stops feeling abstract.
OpenMac
Reference, not a build — we track other people's projects.
Familiar Mac UI on Linux. The look-and-feel of an OS isn't copyrighted (Apple v. Microsoft 1994), so projects in this space are legally safe. We track the early-stage AiryxOS effort, plus emerging projects like Aisha and other macOS-alternative distributions.
Status: watching. We do not currently fund, contribute to, or ship anything called OpenMac. A reviews-and-comparison page is something we may write when the underlying projects firm up.
OpenWindows
Reference, not a build — we track other people's projects.
Familiar Windows UI on Linux. ReactOS has 30+ years of active development behind it. App-compat layers (Wine, CrossOver, Proton) close most of the practical gap.
Status: watching. Same as OpenMac — we are not building this; we are tracking the people who are.
Local groups & the interactive globe
Was on the home page in v1.1–v1.3. Demoted in v1.4 because the list was too short to justify the visual weight, and the focus belongs on shipping product.
Sovereignty is easier with neighbours. The original idea was a directory of mesh networks, hacker spaces, and digital-rights collectives that readers could show up to in person, anchored by an interactive globe with markers per group.
Vienna · Funkfeuer Wien
Mesh-network community in Vienna. Long-running, hands-on, aligned values. funkfeuer.at
Your group here? Tell us — we want this list to be real before it's long.
Status: paused until the list of real groups is large enough that the globe earns its weight on the home page.
Incogni — aligned offer
External recommendation, not a project of ours.
Incogni is a data-broker opt-out service. It contacts the (hundreds of) data brokers that buy and resell your information, and tells them — on your behalf, with legal authority — to delete your records and not re-collect. Complementary to switching providers, not a replacement.
Other concept-level items
Several project sketches mentioned in earlier site versions also live here as reference:
- secureOpenHarness — sandboxed AI execution layer, the security-and-isolation companion to OpenHarness. Concept-level; we like the direction.
- deGoogle flows — step-by-step paths for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Photos. Calibrated for non-techies. We have the routes; the work to write them up honestly is queued behind shipping product.
- InterHarness — session-management layer for Claude Code. Adjacent to OpenHarness; daily-driver developer tooling.
- Phone setups, Faraday pouches, RISC-V hardware horizon — the extended hardware-and-phones recommendations. Currently still on Projects; will likely consolidate here when that page retires.