PLANET
The demo app looks like many other apps that users are already using, so why would they want to change?
PLANET may look familiar on the surface, but underneath it works very differently. It is a decentralised trust network, not a platform that owns your data, controls your reach, or locks you into its ecosystem. Your identity, reputation, relationships, and communities are portable and user-controlled.
That means PLANET can do things traditional apps cannot: trusted introductions, privacy-aware networking, community-owned marketplaces, collaborative groups, verified opportunities, mutual support systems, and new economic tools built on trust instead of surveillance and extraction.
In short: it's not just another app — it's shared infrastructure for people to coordinate and collaborate to build a fairer, trust-based economy.
What is the difference between a Profile and a Trust Profile?
A profile is a standard page with info about you. A Trust Profile is dynamic and relationship-aware. It includes not just personal and contact details, but also bespoke sharing settings for vouches (endorsements), your location info, posts, calendar, account recovery and network access, so you can control what people assigned to different trust profiles can see. PLANET is being designed to ship with different suggested trust profiles including: Public, Family, Friends, Business, Community — but you will also be able to create your own bespoke trust profiles.
What is the intended operating system? Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac?
PLANET is being designed as a Portable Web App (PWA) which means it will not be tied to any specific OS or the App Store / Google Play. It will only be downloadable from an invite link, sent from someone within the network, but can still be set up with an icon on your phone's home screen.
What is the absolute minimum viable product, for version 0.1?
We think it's: Inviting, Chat and Vouching. With these features alone we can start to build decentralised trust networks and move away from proprietary surveillance-based apps for messaging — but these features alone won't be enough for it to scale, for that we need Community features (groups), which we are also working on.
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