Graphite: Encrypted, private productivity suite. Own your encryption

Hi Product Hunters! This is my second attempt at an enterprise version of Graphite. But before I get into that, a little backstory on what Graphite is. Graphite is a secure, private productivity suite built using Blockstack's decentralized protocol and tools. Graphite was never supposed to see the light of day. It was supposed to be an app just for me to own all of my fiction writing without worrying about Google or any other third-party. But it became clear after I built it that people wanted and needed something like this. So, Graphite's free version launched publicly in March of 2018. Now, for the story of the first attempt at Graphite Pro. That came around the summer of 2018. I had the naive idea that I could build an enterprise version of Graphite completely client-side. No servers. No databases. As close to decentralized as an app could get without storing all the data on the blockchain or on a p2p network like IPFS. I managed to get something built, but it was not good. In fact, it was very bad. It was slow, buggy, and violated so many of the web's best practices. So, I scrapped it. Now, almost a year later, I've completely rebuilt Graphite Pro. It does use a database and a server, but by using some novel approaches to data storage, none of the organization's actual content is stored on Graphite's database. I wrote briefly about the architecture here: https://blog.graphitedocs.com/re... The tl;dr version is the database stores pointers to files, users, and teams. All content is still stored on the team or user's selected storage provider. This makes it so that Graphite truly cannot access any of an organization's data. Couple this architecture with client-side encryption, and the user and organization are protected from all sorts of snooping and cloud storage provider data breaches. This passion project has grown so much in the last 18 months. I hope you'll take a look, sign up for a free trial if you're an organization, and ask questions! I love questions. Thanks! Justin

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Jared R

•150 reviews

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3yr ago

Thomas Schinabeck

Teleport

•1 review

The product is compared to Google Docs etc. still in a pretty early stage, though it's already a very solid product. If you care a lot about your data, and you want to keep your content secure, though you need to collaborate online with others, this might be your choice. Updates are coming fast.

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7yr ago