# Distributed Press Product & Service Offerings

## Tagline!
**Make your apps faster, more resilient, and low-cost using distributed web tech!**

Interested in hiring us to deploy your applications to the distributed web?
Or interested in partnering with us to collaborate on building new dweb tooling?

Contact us at `hello [at] distributed.press`!

We're also always looking for new use cases of our tools and would be happy to orient and onboard you with Distributed Press' suite of tools.

## Why go distributed?

Applications and websites hosted on servers and other centralized network infrastructure can be costly to scale and hard to secure against censorship and privacy violations.

We offer products and services to integrate your applications to the distributed web ([aka DWeb](https://getDWeb.net/)), to strengthen the resilience, data efficiency, and user privacy of your apps -- all while helping you cut down on bandwidth and server costs. As experts who are familiar with the DWeb ecosystem, we can help you [choose](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-1/) which protocols are right for your use case.

By leveraging DWeb protocols like IPFS, Hyper, ActivityPub, and BitTorrent, you can enable your apps to:

* **Overcome Censorship:** Utilize peer-to-peer and decentralized storage technologies to bypass censorship, ensuring your content remains accessible worldwide.
* **Foster Community Involvement:** Encourage users to take part in the stewardship of content, building a strong, engaged community around your app.
* **Empower Data Sovereignty:** Enable users to independently identify, verify, and archive data, fostering trust and transparency in your application.
* **Enhance [Federated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) Web Integration:** Seamlessly connect your content with a global network of decentralized websites, enhancing user reach and engagement.
* **Optimize Resources:** Save on bandwidth and storage costs through efficient peer-to-peer discovery and localized storage solutions, ideal for areas with limited internet access.

## Consulting & Development Services
We have a wide variety of open source tooling and experience developing and deploying decentralized web technology.

We can help you build DWeb integrations into your existing products.

### Static Sites

#### DWeb Static Site Hosting
- Send us your files and get them published accross different DWeb protocols
- Manage data for multiple domains as a single publisher
- Self-host for on-prem control of your data or use our hosted option in the cloud

#### No-Code & Self-Managed Web Publishing with Multiple Distribution Channels
- Create resilient websites that publish to WWW and DWeb protocols (IPFS, Hyper) through our no-code integration with Sutty content management system (CMS)
- Allow visitors to interact with your website and expand your reach through the Fediverse by using the Social Inbox (ActivityPub integration)

#### CMS Integration for DWeb hosting
- Integrate DWeb hosting and publishing to existing static site generators and content management system
- Use cryptographic verification to let users know data has not been tampered with

#### Custom website consulting, UX, design, development
- Use Sutty CMS, customized for your specific web content needs
- Build your custom website with first-class integration with DWeb protocols
- Migrate your website's current content and design from other CMS such as Wordpress, and you gain resilience and DWeb features

### ActivityPub

#### Static Site Generator ActivityPub Plugins
- Set up Jekyll-based sites with ActivityPub
- Develop custom plugins for your generator of choice
- Test compatibility with other implementations

#### ActivityPub Consulting
- Integrate into existing or new codebases
- Consult on what you need to be compatible with other implementations
- Explore custom activity types for your application domain
- Write and co-develop Fediverse Extension Proposals (FEPs)

#### CMS Integration For ActivityPub publishing
- Make your sites available to an existing network of millions of users and turn them into dynamic social profiles on the decentralized web
- Meet users where they are and get comments without needing to manage account passwords
- Utilize powerful moderation tools to keep away spammers and trolls

#### Social Inbox for ActivityPub
- Use the Social Inbox, which allows readers to directly engage with posts where they are published, and gives publishers the ability to incorporate public dialogue into their websites
- Use our hosted instance or set one up on your own infrastructure
- Add an ActivityPub compliant inbox to your existing project without having to implement it all from scratch

### Peer-To-Peer Application Consulting
- Bespoke JavaScript/Golang/Rust
- Help with different stacks ([IPFS](https://ipfs.tech/), [Holepunch](https://holepunch.to/), [Socket Supply](https://socketsupply.co/), [Earthstar](https://earthstar-project.org/), [Veilid](https://veilid.com/), [Iroh](https://iroh.computer/), [BitTorrent](http://bittorrent.org/))
- Use Agregore Browser to load and distribute P2P apps accross platforms
- Integrate any data transfer protocol you want with existing Distributed Press tooling. If it has a URL scheme, we can publish to it

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### NOTES

Example taglines:
* Buffer: Grow your audience on social and beyond
* Webrecorder: Webrecorder provides a suite of open source tools and packages to capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time as accurately as possible.

* Expand what is possible with the DWeb / peer-to-peer web
* Turn your static websites into dynamic social profiles on the decentralized web

Key words:
* leverage the distributed web
* save on bandwidth and server costs
* especially dealing with large data sets
* speed?
* take advantage of unique link schemes
* content addressability > fight link rot, content verifiability
* merkle trees: BitTorrent and IPFS
* splits up the files and folders in the torrent into a tree of “nodes’’ that link to each other using hashes for IDs
* what enables a torrent client to download small bits of files from multiple peers at once and verify their data independently rather than needing to load an entire file before verifying it
* infohash: A .torrent file containing some metadata about a torrent along with the Merkle tree for the files and folders (without having the actual file data) that can be used to verify data.
* IPFS:
* "Takes Merkle Trees to the next level by creating a powerful data model with different “types” and ways of traversing data. IPFS builds on top of IPLD by describing a format for data to represent files and combines it with its P2P network to publish and load files."
* build community stewardship around your content
* immutability/mutability
* deduplicating content
* archiving
* resilience
* local-first, local storage

* Costly to operate; high scale centralized infra requires $ for scale (AWS), high engineering costs
* Insecure: All data is one place, honeypot for ransomware, exploitation, selling off, yanked out from under you, for being the wrong identity (Iranian, queer, etc.), cost for operation