A Private Home For Your Digital Life

August 20264,812 · 61.4 GB

4,812 photographs · 61.4 GB · every one of them on the disk in your cupboard

Household / Phone backup38.6 GB · syncing

The same folder open on the laptop, the phone and the machine downstairs

No cloud in the middle: the machines talk to each other and the folder matches

Feed the scanner once; find the bill by typing three words two years later

Encrypted on the machine before it leaves, so the far end holds noise it cannot read

living room television · 1080p · direct play

Playing on the living room television · 1080p · no transcode, no buffering

continue watching

Picked up on a phone at exactly the minute the television was paused

listening · kitchen speaker

The position follows you from the car to the kitchen without an account in between

sent to the reader over the network

Send to the reader over the network; nothing passes through anyone's store

• Living room

  22.4 °C

• Porch light

  On

• Front door

  Locked

• Water heater

  Off

• Solar

  1.4 kW

• Bedroom

  24.1 °C

Every switch answers to the cupboard, so the lights work when the internet does not

person

Fourteen days kept on your own disk · nothing uploaded, nothing charged monthly

Sensors from six makers on one network, and none of them phone home

Drag a line between two boxes and the house has a new rule

Every device on the network, including the television and the ones with no ad blocker

Your machines find each other directly; nothing is exposed to the open internet

A tunnel you hold the keys to, instead of a plan you re-subscribe to every year

Real names and real certificates, issued to a machine that has no port open to the world

The same vault the Bitwarden apps talk to, with the database sitting in your cupboard

One list the whole house can see, instead of four apps and a fridge magnet

The ledger stays on the machine; no bank credential is handed to a third party

This week's planshopping list ready

Pick the week, and the shopping list writes itself from the recipes

Machines you can rebuild in a minute, on hardware you already paid for once

Every application above is one of these lines, and removing one leaves no trace behind

Start it, stop it, read its log — without opening a terminal or learning a flag

Private repositories with no seat count, on a disk you can hold

It tells you a service is down before anyone in the house has to come and tell you

Disks, temperature and power over months, so a failure has a shape before it happens

The question, the documents and the answer all stay inside the house