THE ONE BIG IDEA
nTogether
A privacy-first social platform where every user owns their own corner of the internet.
Your SPACE. Your data. Your rules.
Core Idea
Every user gets a self-hosted website (their SPACE), a suite of personal productivity apps (LIFE), and access to a social network (CONNECT) that aggregates content from all SPACEs without hosting any of it centrally. The platform makes money from users who want it to, and stays out of the way of those who don't.
01
SPACE
Every user gets a self-hosted website — their SPACE. Content lives on the user's SPACE, not on a central server. Remove it from your SPACE and it's gone from everywhere.
02
LIFE
A suite of personal productivity apps — Goals, Planner, Routines, Journal, Habits (Kenoma), Contacts, Around Town, Legacy, Lists, Financial, Research, and more. Local-first, yours forever.
03
CONNECT
A social network that hosts nothing. Music, video, podcasts, and posts live on user SPACEs. CONNECT discovers and surfaces them. No central feed, no algorithmic manipulation by default.
04
DATA HUB
A personal intelligence layer. Every event across LIFE apps flows into your DATA HUB — a private event bus that powers your own insights. The platform never sees what you don't share.
Key Principles
You own your SPACE
Your site, your content, your data. It lives where you put it.
Privacy is a product
Five tiers let users choose exactly how much the platform sees — indexed by price. Tier 5 is free in exchange for full data access. Higher privacy costs more.
CONNECT hosts nothing
Content lives on user SPACEs. CONNECT is a discovery layer, not a content host.
The DATA HUB is yours
Every tier generates the same personal intelligence data. The tier only controls what the platform can see — not what you get back.
No vendor lock-in
Open formats everywhere. Export your data, self-host your stack, federate with other platforms via ActivityPub.
Local-first LIFE apps
All personal apps work offline. Data syncs on reconnect. No SaaS dependency for your daily life.
Why It Exists
Users should own their presence on the internet — not rent it.
Every other platform borrows your content, your audience, and your data, then monetizes all three. nTogether inverts that: your site, your apps, and your social graph live on infrastructure you control. The company's incentive is to protect that ownership, because that is what people pay for — not to quietly erode it.
Privacy Tiers
Privacy is not a buried setting — it is the price tier you are on. Five tiers control what the platform can see. None of them restrict a single feature, app, or social capability.
Tier and per-interaction privacy are independent — a Tier 1 user can post fully public, a Tier 5 user can post fully private.
How the Company Makes Money
The platform makes money from the users who want it to. Tiers 1–4 pay to keep their data private — the company earns from the subscription, not the data. Tier 5 is free: those users trade data access for the platform and earn coin when their data sells. Paid subscriptions are always more profitable than free data sales, so privacy and profit point in the same direction.
Subscriptions
Recurring revenue from privacy Tiers 1–4.
Data marketplace
Consenting Tier 5 data sold through CONNECT; users earn coin.
Coin fees
Tiered transaction fees on tokenTogether activity.
Creator marketplace
Creator–advertiser deals and the advertising platform.
tokenTogether
The in-platform coin. Supply is matched to real platform revenue rather than minted freely, fees scale by privacy tier, and holders earn staking rewards and vote on governance. Coin is earned through engagement, consenting data sales, and creator activity.
Revenue-matched supply
Coin issuance tracks actual revenue — no free inflation.
Staking rewards
Fixed base plus a share of platform revenue.
Governance
Decisions made by multi-group vote, not a single board.
Earned, not bought
Accrues from participation, data sales, and creating.
The Rest of the Platform
Beyond the four pillars, nTogether ships a full stack of owned-by-you services.
BUILDSPACE
Visual, block-based site builder for your SPACE, with a template library by purpose and use.
Repository
Self-hosted Git over HTTPS and SSH, every repo backed by your DATA HUB.
MESSENGER
End-to-end encrypted messaging — native app and embedded in the suite.
BOARD
Community spaces at SPACE level and network-wide.
CLOUD
Personal cloud storage — self-hosted or managed by nTogether.
BROWSER
Privacy browser with password manager, media archiver, and research capture.
DASH
The suite home screen and an embeddable dashboard of your data and activity.
What Makes It Different
Delete means gone
Content lives on your SPACE in an isolated container. Remove it and it is gone from the platform instantly — no copies, no CDN cache, no archive.
Privacy without friction
Privacy is the pricing tier you are already on, and every interaction has its own private / shared / public control.
Forkable social blocks
Polls, lists, and rankings on any SPACE can be forked onto your own. The structure is shared; the answers are personal.
Launch Plan
A free launch window opens with every tier free for everyone for a defined period — no privacy paywall while the platform proves itself. During that window only, lifetime subscriptions are available for Tiers 1–4, locking in private-by-default access for good.
Tech Stack
LIFE Suite — available now
Six apps from the LIFE suite are embedded here as standalone tools.
More of the LIFE suite — in progress
The rest of the nTogether app catalog. Design complete; building now.
Scheduler
Calendar & events
Lists
Action & collections
Financial
Budget & spending
Diet
Meals & wellbeing
Agreement
Terms & obligations
Research
Thought organizer
Groups
Contact collections
videoPlayer
Self-hosted video
nTogether OS
LONG-TERM ROADMAPThe end state is the platform's own operating system — a privacy-first OS for phones, tablets, laptops, and home controllers. Privacy is enforced at the kernel: no telemetry without explicit consent, the whole nTogether suite ships as native system apps, and the source is open for independent audit. The same SPACE, LIFE, CONNECT, and DATA HUB you own in software, running all the way down to the hardware.
Zero-knowledge kernel
No telemetry without explicit consent — privacy built into the kernel, not bolted on.
Suite built in
Every LIFE and SPACE app is a native system application.
Hardware-accelerated privacy
Native zk-STARKs acceleration and a hardware security module.
Privacy browser default
A privacy-respecting browser is the system default.
Open & auditable
Partially or fully open source so anyone can verify the claims.
One ecosystem
Phones, tablets, laptops, and home controllers on one privacy-first OS.