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Freenet
The internet, without the gatekeepers.
Imagine if the internet wasn't controlled by a handful of giant corporations. Freenet is a platform for building applications that run on a peer-to-peer network instead of centralized servers. That means no cloud provider, app store, or platform owner gets to decide whether your application continues to exist. Build social networks, marketplaces, collaborative tools, AI systems, and other applications on infrastructure owned by its users.
Hi, I'm Ian.
I started the original Freenet project in 1999 because I was worried about how much power the internet would eventually concentrate in the hands of a few organizations.
Unfortunately, that prediction aged pretty well.
The project we're launching today is a complete rethinking of Freenet. The goal is simple: make it possible to build applications that don't depend on any company continuing to exist or continuing to approve of what you're doing.
Whether you're interested in decentralization, distributed systems, AI, or just think this is a terrible idea, I'd genuinely like to hear what you think.
About Freenet on Product Hunt
“The internet, without the gatekeepers.”
Freenet was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #143 on the daily leaderboard. Imagine if the internet wasn't controlled by a handful of giant corporations. Freenet is a platform for building applications that run on a peer-to-peer network instead of centralized servers. That means no cloud provider, app store, or platform owner gets to decide whether your application continues to exist. Build social networks, marketplaces, collaborative tools, AI systems, and other applications on infrastructure owned by its users.
On the analytics side, Freenet competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub and Web3 — topics that collectively have 630.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Freenet performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Freenet?
Freenet was hunted by Ian Clarke. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Freenet including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ian Clarke