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Decentralized ApplicationsComposable groupware platform built on Holochain enabling groups to create collaboration spaces by assembling custom 'Tool' (formerly 'Applet') suites. Each group and each Tool within it forms its own private P2P network. Users select from a library of collaboration tools — chat (Vines), collaborative notebooks, drawing (Slate), project management (Acorn), sensemaking (Converge), spatial mapping (Where), and more — composing them into unified social spaces. Originally called 'We', evolved into 'The Weave' framework with 'Moss' as its reference implementation .
Fully P2P Community Low capture risk
Details
License CAL-1.0
Dev Status Alpha
Owner Lightningrod Labs (founded by Eric Harris-Braun, co-founder of Holochain and MetaCurrency Project); Harris-Braun Enterprises LLC (copyright holder); development with Guillem Cordoba and Viktor Zaunders at darksoil studio
Country USA
Start Year 2022
Stack Holochain, TypeScript/JavaScript, Syn library, Tauri, Nix, Excalidraw
Funding Foundation
Last Investigated Mar 10, 2026
Decentralized Application Attributes
Use Case Category Composable groupware / collaboration platform (teams assemble custom tool suites for their specific needs; 'a much more advanced Google Workspace' with decentralized architecture)
User Interface Type Desktop app (Slack/Discord-like layout: left sidebar for groups, secondary bar for Tools, main window for active Tool UI; composable dashboards planned)
Offline Capabilities Yes (Holochain local-first architecture; data stored on user's device; works without internet once peers have synced; DHT provides eventual consistency)
Collaboration Features Extensive (core purpose: real-time collaborative editing via Syn, chat via Vines, project management via Acorn, collaborative drawing via Slate, sensemaking via Converge, spatial mapping via Where, voting, deliberation; all composable into unified spaces)
Data Portability Yes (Holochain agent-centric: users own their source chain data; Weave Interaction Pattern is an open standard; Tools can be mixed across groups; template sharing via public DHT library)
Integration Ecosystem Holochain hApp ecosystem (any Holochain hApp can be compiled as a Weave Tool; DevHub for publishing; growing library of Tools; Weave Interaction Pattern as open standard for cross-tool composition; WAL system for linking across Tools)
Prosocial Coherence High (core design: empowered agency where individuals opt-in to group tools; no engagement metrics or attention capture; groups self-organize without external authority; collaborative tool selection by consent; open standard for social fabric composition)
Economic Flows Planned (REA PlaySpace tool for economic event recording based on ValueFlows/REA ontology; integrated within Weave ecosystem)
Governance & Decision Making Group self-governance (each group creates its own private P2P network; members must opt-in to proposed Tools; no central authority; cheap group branching/forking; template sharing for replicable governance patterns)
Media / Publishing Yes (Notebooks for collaborative document editing; Slate for visual media; template libraries shared via public DHT)
Knowledge Management Yes (Notebooks for collaborative knowledge documents; Converge for criteria refinement; Where for spatial knowledge mapping; cross-tool WAL linking creates knowledge graphs across Tools)
Sensemaking Yes (Converge tool for stakeholder criteria refinement and maximal support finding; Where for group self-location across multiple conceptual spaces; cross-tool composition enables complex sensemaking workflows)
Project Management Yes (Acorn — Holochain-based project management for distributed teams; outcome hierarchies with collaborative breakdown into manageable units; completion tracking)
Communication Model Multi-modal composable (Vines chat with topics/channels/mentions; Notebooks for long-form; Slate for visual; all within unified group context; Weave Interaction Pattern enables cross-tool references)
Network Resilience High (Holochain P2P: each group is its own network; no central servers; data replicated across group members; if nodes go offline, remaining peers maintain network; groups are independent — one group's failure doesn't affect others)
Discovery Mechanism Tool library (public DHT-hosted applet/tool library where developers publish and users browse; group invitations; DevHub for developer publishing; template sharing for pre-configured tool combinations)
Max Participants Group-sized (designed for collaborative work groups; Holochain DHT scales with group size; multiple independent groups can exist; each group is its own network — no theoretical global limit on number of groups)
Data Sovereignty Full (Holochain agent-centric: each user's data on their own source chain; each group's DHT hosted on members' own computers; no cloud dependency; CAL-1.0 license ensures cryptographic autonomy; users control their own keys and data)