A batteries-included, self-hostable web3 alternative to Medium, Substack, and Mirror.

Own your content and audience through decentralized publishing

Stack

The Fountain app is entirely self-hostable and is built using the following tools:

• Lens Protocol - Decentralized social protocol
• Grove - Decentralized storage
• Next.js - React framework for the frontend
• Plate.js - Customizable editor framework
• Y.js - Collaborative sync layer for the editor
• Supabase - Off-chain storage
• Listmonk - Mailing list manager

Note: The Fountain app is still in early development, self-hosting documentation is coming soon.

Coming Soon

• Docs portal (Q2)
• Deployment SDKs (Q2)

Getting Started

Installation

• Using Bun (v1.2.5 or higher)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/fountain-ink/app.git
cd app
Install dependencies
bun install
Create a .env file (and edit the variables)
cp .env.example .env
Start the development server
bun run dev
Run the collaboration server (for yjs sync)
bun run collab
Run the notifications server (WIP)
bun run notifications

Building for Production

# Build the application
bun run build
Start the production server
bun run start

License

AGPLv3 - See LICENSE for more information.