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What is Atek?

Atek is a personal cloud for small home servers like Raspberry Pis. It uses peer-to-peer tech to turn NodeJS programs into private, self-hosted Web apps with privacy and global connectivity.

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That right there is something useless a sales person may tell you. Means nothing for techie.

Luckily there is architecture doc we can dig into: https://atek.cloud/docs/manual/dev/architecture

Thanks for sharing that! It's a very well-written doc, and IMHO it managed to describe a compelling architecture for the aspects of "web 3.0" that _don't_ scream scammy hype blockchain bitcoin bs. I'm actually interested!

I read all that and I still don't see what the purpose of this is.

Its to help people develop p2p applications in a stack that's popular without understanding inner workings of usual p2p technologies. Using this people can create p2p applications that much easily without needing to host them somewhere. All the advantages of p2p applications apply here while reducing the complexity of development.

It is a platform that aims to be able run on a rpi to provide a self-hosted home cloud infrastructure.

I still have no idea what Atek is.

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