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Please note: some development ability and familiarity with command line tools will likely be required for you to use and improve most of these projects. For simpler services you can use to get on the IndieWeb without using a command line, see: Most projects are open source (AKA free software, F/OSS, FLOSS or FOSS), if you’re looking for starting points in a particular programming language, see: Get On The IndieWebThese projects are:
In rough order of adoption and active use by the IndieWeb community: WordPressMain article: WordPress
WordPress is open source software you can use to create a website or blog. Many IndieWebCamp participants use WordPress on their primary site with a set of plugins developed by members of this community to provide IndieWeb functionality. Notable IndieWeb community examples, all plug-in authors, all eat what they cook: See WordPress Examples for more! WordPress has an active IndieWeb development community: micro.blogMain article: micro.blog
micro.blog is a hosted microblogging service that lets you publish content on the web and interact with other community members who use the site in their custom platform. micro.blog implements various IndieWeb features such as rel=me links, offering support for adding a personal domain to your site, and syndication features. IndieWeb participants who use micro.blog for their main site include: Many more community members syndicate their sites to micro.blog, too. JekyllMain article: Jekyll
Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator. IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary self-identifying site:
DrupalMain article: Drupal
Drupal is a popular open source content management system. It needs better documentation for how to install and set it up as an IndieWeb friendly personal site. Notable examples:
HugoMain article: Hugo
Hugo is a blog-aware, static site generator. IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary self-identifying site:
StatiqMain article: Statiq
Statiq Web is a static web site generation toolkit built with .NET suitable for most use cases. It's built on top of Statiq Framework so you can always extend or customize it beyond those base capabilities as well. Connect With ServicesThe following projects are actively being used by both their creators (following the use what you make principle) and many others in the IndieWeb community as additions to or services to enhance their personal sites with connections to and interactions with other content sites. BridgyMain article: Bridgy
Bridgy is a service that backfeeds replies to your POSSE copies to your site, and publishes POSSE copies to your silo profiles. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it with their primary site:
Webmention.ioMain article: webmention.io
webmention.io is an open-source project written in Ruby and a hosted service for receiving webmentions and pingbacks on behalf of your IndieWeb site. IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site: Get InspiredThese projects are:
The following projects are actively being used at a minimum by their creators for their own personal sites (using what they make) and have excellent examples of IndieWeb sites both in design, and IndieWeb feature support. These projects may not yet be easily installable by someone other than the creator(s). These projects often provide building blocks functionality or more in the form of open source shared libraries or functions which can help bootstrap anyone looking to build their own IndieWeb solution. Alphabetically ordered: DobradoMain article: dobrado
dobrado is a multi user content management system written in PHP and Javascript. It's designed to make it easy to create and edit pages without any technical knowledge. Installation can be done using Git or downloading the latest zip archive (to install software onto your server) and editing one configuration file. IndieWeb community examples:
FalconMain article: Falcon
Falcon is a personal publishing and content presentation system written in PHP and CASSIS. Open source:
IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary site:
FrancisCMSMain article: FrancisCMS
FrancisCMS is an IndieWeb-friendly open source content management system built with Ruby on Rails. Installation is of moderate difficulty for someone familiar with Rails. The documentation is pretty thorough but does require some specific knowledge.[1] Examples:
IndiekitMain article: Indiekit
Indiekit is a self-hosted Node.js server that uses the Micropub API to publish content to a content store, be that a local file system destination, an FTP server or Git repository. A high degree of customisation is provided, and a plug-in API enables integration with other services and protocols. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their primary site:
JottitMain article: Jottit
Jottit is a tool for radically simple web publishing, originally built in 2007 by Simon Carstensen and Aaron Swartz. Write in Markdown, and Jottit builds a fast static site. Every site is a Git repository, so you own your data completely and can clone it anytime. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their primary site:
kakuMain article: kaku
kaku is a personal publishing static site toolset. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their primary site:
KnownMain article: Known
Known (formerly idno) is open source publishing software that supports a great degree of IndieWeb technologies and principles by default and is used by a few IndieWeb community members, sometimes for a secondary site. See Known#IndieWeb_Examples for IndieWeb Examples. Past notable examples:
There is a chat channel specific to Known development: PublMain article: Publ CMS
Publ is p3kMain article: p3k
p3k is personal publishing platform. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their primary site:
TwyneA blogging system in which everything is a post. Supports syndications, replies, and a bunch of other indieweb ideas. User manual: https://twyne.readthedocs.io/ In use at: WWWTechMain article: WWWTech
WWWTech is open source personal publishing software written in Phoenix. See its Github repo. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their primary site:
Additional Site OptionsThese projects are:
The following projects either may be production quality or have IndieWeb community members using them on their own domains, however likely require non-trivial additional work (possibly coding) to add IndieWeb support, and are often are not actively used by their creators. If you like challenges and helping people at the same time, these might be for you. Try one out with your own site, and if you like it, jump in with code contributions to make it IndieWeb friendly (either by default or by following easy setup/plugin instructions), become an active developer on the project, and help elevate it up to use what you make status! MediaWikiMain article: MediaWiki
MediaWiki is software you can install to create a wiki website. PerchMain article: Perch
Perch and Perch Runway are a content management systems based on PHP+MySQL. Offered in two flavors, Perch is for smaller sites and Perch Runway geared for sites which have large collections of content. Webmention is supported via plugin and the developers behind Perch have shown active interest in adding additional IndieWeb functionality.
ProcessWireMain article: ProcessWire
ProcessWire is an open source content management system/content management framework. IndieWeb participants that are using it on their personal site:
WikiSuiteMain article: WikiSuite
WikiSuite is open source software that can be used to run a website. Notable users:
Side ProjectsThe following projects may add some independent / decentralized functionality to an existing IndieWeb site. Consider them only after you have your personal site setup to post content etc. LibravatarMain article: libravatar
libravatar is software that can provide independent avatar hosting (like Gravatar, but decentralized) IndieWebCamp participants who are using it:
Other ProjectsHave you found another project that claims to be IndieWeb, or federated, or decentralized, or distributed and think it should be listed here or are not sure if it should be? Then: Ask QuestionsThere are two pretty simple questions you can ask that will help you sift through perhaps 99% of the other projects out there.
If you have answered a firm YES to these two questions about a project, you may add that project to this page (like to the end of the Get Inspired section) with names, personal sites, and citations of how those sites are using the project.
IndieWeb ExamplesExamples of personal sites with their own "projects" pages, either as a top-level page or at a subdomain. Trevor MorrisUser:Www.trovster.com keeps a set of projects at https://projects.trovster.com/
Under ConstructionThis page is being simplified and focused on providing a quickly usable list of projects to help you get on the IndieWeb and improve your IndieMark. For details about this page and the in-progress transition, see About This Page.
Everything below here is old content and under (re)construction. ExperimentalStuff that you've at least got running on your own site, but is perhaps not stable/reliable enough for general sharing / use by others. Still useful to document what you *do* have running and use, share some of the code/design/UX, and lessons learned. Roughly ordered first by how "complete" the blogging/posting functionality is with known (URL required) attendee users, then other content tools, and other building blocks. Experimental blogging / content hosting projects sorted by number of IndieWeb community members actively using them on their own primary personal site (and then alphabetically). BundleMain article: Bundle
Bundle is a set of publishing tools for the IndieWeb built using Python and Django. Depends on: Status:
Useage by IndieWeb community members:
gopostMain article: gopost
gopost is a simple tool to make posts to several social networks and also generate a webtemplate-snippet to embed in your (static) website. It is written in Go and runs as single Application. It is work in progress. gopost can be found on GitHub and is developed by Alexander Kulbartsch. HakkanMain article: Hakkan
Hakkan is a personal publishing toolkit. It is being used to generate and aggregate content for Bear's Log. IndieWeb related functions shared in Ronkyuu
IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary site:
pump.ioMain article: pump.io
Pump.io is "a stream server that does most of what people really want from a social network." IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site:
sadlittlewebjournalsadlittlewebjournal is a Weblog written in Perl that uses PostgreSQL or MySQL and a straightforward ASCII interface. Site maintenance is done via an intuitive backend that allows one to add, delete, and modify previous entries. Other features include an integrated guestbook, a Web stat chart complete with ASCII bar graphs, and various other modularized features. Current POSSE feature include publishing news posts to an external Twitter or StatusNet feed, but the PESOS alternative is also supported: republishing posts syndicated from such a feed. On the roadmap are comments using webmentions and microformats. IndieWeb enthusiasts currently using it on their own site:
TaprootMain article: Taproot
Taproot is Barnaby Walters’ publishing software. It’s written in PHP 5.4 and drives most of waterpigs.co.uk. It is not currently released to the public, although parts of it are. IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site:
TransformativeMain article: Transformative
Transformative is IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site:
PostlyMain article: Postly
Postly is Ben Roberts' blogging platform. Based in PHP and MySQL it aims to be a platform for easy creation of experimental features. The source code is available on GitHub. IndieWeb enthusiasts currently using it on their own site:
VotoMain article: Voto
Voto is Vasilis van Gemert's personal photo gallery. He's written about the ideas behind it on his blog. IndieWeb enthusiasts currently using it on their own site: trikitriki is semantic web server used to publish blogs, recommendations, photos, albums and really any sort of content. Supports groups to control sharing with groups/friends. Written in Java with Apache JENA triplestore back-end. Supports IndieAuth and Activity Streams 2.0. Next up is Microblog. IndieWebCamp participants that are using it on their own site: neopubMain article: neopub
The blogging software that runs micro.geheimesite.nl. It is written in PHP and saves posts in a large JSON file that is reset every year. It has a built-in micropub endpoint that sends webmentions. Supports notes, replies, bookmarks, likes and reposts. Other Experimental ProjectsOther projects which are experimental quality but are not primary blogging / content hosting projects (the heart of an IndieWeb site). IndieAuth and RelMeAuth Main article: IndieAuth
IndieAuth is a way to use your own domain name to sign in to websites. It works by linking your website to one or more authentication providers such as Twitter or Google, then entering your domain name in the login form on websites that support it.
IndieWebCamp participants' sites using IndieAuth: IndieWebCamp participants' sites using RelMeAuth:
IndieWeb ReplyA cross-browser extension which hijacks social sharing buttons across the web and reply, favourite and retweet buttons on twitter.com to redirect to your own site whilst retaining metadata like profiled text for you to use in your own UIs. Available on GitHub.
Own Your CommentsAn experimental cross-browser extension to help people retain ownership of the comments they leave on the web by hijacking existing comment UIs and injecting customised ones. Available on GitHub.
phubbMain article: phubb
Self hosted PHP PubSubHubbub server People who are using it on their own site: Pingback2hookSelf hosted Pingback/Webmention middleware (written in PHP, inspired by Webmention.io) that takes pings, stores them, and fires off webhooks. Provides a query API. People who are using it on their own site: stapibasMain article: stapibas
Standalone pingback server written in PHP, storing data in MySQL.
IndieWeb enthusiasts using it on their primary site: Similar to #Pingback2hook and #Webmention.io. WhistleWhistle is an algorithmically reversible personal URL shortener. There is an instance of Whistle running at ttk.me.
IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their own site:
WhisperFollowMain article: Whisperfollow
WhisperFollow is a WordPress based social aggregator that currently supports RSS, Atom and PubSubHubbub. IRC Aaron Parecki uses a private IRC server with several channels as a personal communications hub. This project has no specific name, and has no single code base, and is highly experimental. However, he has been using and developing it for almost three years. The bot in the IRC channel can control lights in the house, do text to speech on computers inside the house, shows Twitter mentions and wiki edits, do unit conversion and other calculations, manage a "todo" list, and sometimes makes snarky remarks. Its modular structure has made it extremely easy to quickly add new functionality, and as such, has probably slowed Aaron's development on other more accessible web-based equivalents. ostatus-unofficial
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DiSo Actionstream for WordPressDiSo Actionstream for WordPress enables syndication of content from other sites to your own or writing a bit of code to insert local items. This powers both the full actionstream at singpolyma.net and also the self-hosted microblog at µ.singpolyma.net IndieWebCamp participants who are using it on their primary self-identifying site:
Other independents that are using it on their primary self-identifying site:
static site checkerThe static site checker, an opinionated HTML nitpicker, is a linter intended to verify static, hand-coded websites. It's a pre-alpha command line tool for those who prefer to be free of CMS design limitations. It's used by its author, dylan harris, on arts & ego and corrupt press. It verifies most published versions of HTML, schema.org and microformats semantic data, links, etc.. It's written in C++ and requires recent versions of cmake, boost, and clang / gcc / msvc. The source, and executables for Windows 10 x64, macOS and Centos, can be found on arts & ego and github. PushlMain article: Pushl
Pushl is a tool for pushing out WebSub/Webmention pings from sites in a consistent, automated manner. It's intended to be used with anything that presents an RSS/Atom feed. AuthlMain article: Authl
Authl is a Python library for adding federated identity (IndieAuth/OAuth/email magic links/etc.) to applications, including Flask bindings, primarily for supporting private posts but could be used for other login flows as well.
owl-blogsOwl-blogs is a blogging software written in Go. It supports Webmention and ActivityPub. HacksStuff that you've hacked on, perhaps you intend to run on your own site, sometimes run on your own site (i.e. for testing rather than as a part of your day-to-day real world usage), used to run on your own site, or in development plugins. We hope to see stuff here migrate up to experimental! Alphabetical by project name: ownCloudMain article: ownCloud
Self-hosted personal web services: ownCloud has file manager, music, calendar, contacts and much more! IndieWebCamp participants who are/were using it:
PublifyMain article: Publify
Publify is a Ruby on Rails blogging engine with extended publishing capacities that's recently been taking a turn as an IndieWeb project. Publify and supported plugins are free software released under the MIT licence. Publify needs a database like MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. Master currently supports the following IndieWeb features:
Current IndieWeb users that are actively using it on their primary self-identifying site:
Past IndieWeb users:
Smallest Federated WikiMain article: Smallest Federated Wiki
Other HacksHacks that are not primary blogging / content hosting projects. ExplorationsThese aren't even experiments yet - more like concepts in progress and being developed Related explorations:
OtherHere's where all other IndieWeb/FSW related projects go, including / especially those which are:
Despite their disused or theoretical nature, we may still be able to learn from the strengths and weaknesses of other approaches, document formats/protocols, etc. and try to merge efforts. DiasporaMain article: Diaspora
Diaspora is an open source project for hosting a social network on your own server that federates with other Diaspora instances, which are called "pods". IndieWeb community members who are using it on their own site:
GhostMain article: Ghost
Ghost is a simple and powerful blogging platform that was first written about by John O'Nolan, the former lead for Wordpress's UI team. He described Ghost as an "idealistic and fictional concept for a WordPress-lite fork"[2]. During a 29 day Kickstarter campaign, Nolan raised £196,362 [3]. After two years, John O'Nolan released an article that described "How we Spent The Kickstarter Money, where we are now, and what's next for Ghost".[4] Ghost is an open source application available for free self-hosting and offers Ghost(Pro), upon a premium managed-SaaS service hosted with Digital Ocean. Ghost boasts a large community of contributors, and runs as a npm module ontop of NodeJS and Express. GNU socialMain article: GNU social
GNU social is an open source project that "will be a decentralized social network that you can install on your own server". No IndieWeb community members are using it on their own site. OStatus for WordPressOStatus for WordPress is a collection of plugins to make WordPress blogs followable by status.net and other OStatus instances. No IndieWeb community members are using it on their own site. If we could get IndieWeb participation by some folks using OStatus, it would be great to understand how well it works today. PostcardPostcard is an iOS app that allows you to post content on multiple social networks. It lets one network serve as the 'host' and the remaining networks share a link back to it. The Postcard API Protocol also allows the app to communicate with your own site. A WordPress plugin that implements this API has been released along with the iOS app.
ShaarliMain article: Shaarli
Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast, and handy. It is primarily a bookmarking application, but the feature list indicates you can also ". . . use it for micro-blogging (like Twitter), a pastebin, an online notepad, a snippet repository, etc." IndieWeb community members who are using it on their own site:
UBOS (Indie Box Project)http://ubos.net/ management software that allows the simple administration of IndieWeb sites on cheap Linux devices and plug computers. UBOS is the successor to the former IndieBox project. Used by:
SquisoMain article: Squiso
Squiso wants to create a decentralized open social web, by allowing users to host their own social data or trust a service provider of their choice. Used and primary developed by: ServicesThese services are not projects that you can install and don't belong on the projects page, need to find a better place for them. WordPress.comWordPress.com is a hosted blog service that runs on WordPress. It includes microformats v1 by default, and you can author microformats2 by editing your template's HTML. You can also use Bridgy to send and receive webmentions. That combination makes WordPress.com a first-class (if limited) IndieWeb platform. TumblrMain article: Tumblr
Tumblr is a hosted blog service. You can author microformats by editing your template's HTML, and you can use Bridgy to send and receive webmentions. That combination makes Tumblr a first-class (if limited) IndieWeb platform. BloggerMain article: Blogger
Blogger is a hosted blog service. It includes microformats v1 by default, and you can author microformats2 by editing your template's HTML. You can also use Bridgy to send and receive webmentions. That combination makes Blogger a first-class (if limited) IndieWeb platform. AbandonedSee: former_projects#Abandoned About This PageThe projects page is focused on providing a clear flat list of projects you can set up on your own site to join the IndieWeb. (new!) Even more focus being considered on:
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FormerlyFormerly this page was split into various categories as follows: Split into production, experimental, hacks, and explorations as well as other for projects that are or appear to be IndieWeb related but are either not in use by any attendee or status is unknown. Within each quality level the projects are listed by:
Sorted within each quality level by number of IndieWebCamp participants actively using it on their primary self-identity site (thus you can quickly see which projects are the most "real", in-use, and likely well supported). See Also
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