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The Holochain Launcher is a user-friendly desktop application that allows anyone to download and install Holochain apps. It is a combination of two elements; a hApp launcher and a type of App Library or hApp store. It is built by Holo as the official target environment for self-hosted apps, that means holochain apps not running on Holo.
We’ve include a tutorial here to help you download and use it. It is user-friendly for most computer literate folks. (Please note that some older computers aren’t able to load Launcher.)
Currently there are hApps on Launcher that allow you to create shared work, play and social environments. The database of applications found on hAppenings.community provides a view of the hApps being built, some of which are featured in the Launcher App Library. It shows hApps at different stages of development, from early ideas to those in beta testing.
The App Library does not currently feature reviews like those you might be familiar with in your smartphone app store. Reputation and rating systems are being developed as part of the app store and will be integrated to allow the community to share their feedback, reviews, and recommendations.
The DevHub is the backend of Launcher, where app developers upload their applications. The DevHub is a hApp in its own right, and developers can upload their full hApp as well as each of the unique modules they wrote to build their hApp. The DevHub is a 'dev store' for other hApp creators: a store within a store!
You can collaborate with your peers by creating unique 'Network Seeds' when downloading your hApp. Sharing your Network Seed with friends and colleagues allows them to add the seed when downloading the hApp. The seed acts somewhat like a password, providing access to each other's data. Since these are Holochain applications, all data remains on each user's device, and Holochain's gossip ensures that shared data integrity is maintained. Imagine downloading two copies of a social media hApp and creating two different Network Seeds; you share one seed with those who you want to share your 'public' social media feed with, and the second seed with only those close friends you want to share your holiday photos with. The two distinct seeds keep the different social media ‘spaces’ separate.
The Launcher homepage is where you’ll find the hApps you've downloaded and where you launch or start them. To keep track of the different ‘spaces’ created using your Network Seeds, you can rename the 'App Id' when downloading the hApp.
Launcher is currently available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and there are plans to develop a mobile version.
Enjoy using Launcher as your gateway to play with the Holochain distributed web!
P.S. We’re holding an event, ‘Holochain Launcher - Exploring Herddit’, a free zoom community call to play with Herddit, the Reddit clone hApp, on Sunday 26th March at 2PM EST, 11AM PST, 7PM BST. Register here!
🌟Latest ‘hAppenings.community’ News:
“Frequently Asked Questions” has been added to our website! If you have a question for us we’d love to offer clarity to you, and the community, in our FAQs. You never know who is wondering the same thing. Contact us!
🌟 Latest Official News from Holochain and Holo
Holochain at ETHDenver 2023 - “Holochain participated in this year’s build week (BUIDLWeek) at ETHDenver, and we can only call it a rousing success. We hosted four separate events with over 500 total registrations between them and some 100 people we met and worked with over the week, showing great interest in what we are building.”
Becoming Viable: Seeds to Saplings - Blog by Eric Harris-Braun. “I had been thinking that Beta was just about getting to stability, but what we have really just delivered is viability. In some ways Holochain has felt viable to me from the start, because I can see its power and value, which is enough (for me). But I didn’t really understand what it would take to land viability for a project of our scope and scale in the world.”
Gig-Matching - Holochain’s Dev.HC discord server has a section Developers looking for a gig can showcase your Holochain apps, as well as skills and experience. You can also use it to post here if your project is looking for devs. Be sure to include the skills you're seeking and some information regarding expectations for payment (or not).
Holochain Dev Tools Released Beta Sequence Complete - “We’ve released a powerful bag of developer tools designed to make it easy to develop a wide variety of P2P apps. With Holochain at their core, these apps will have the capacity to scale up and deliver experiences similar to the Web2 paradigms we’re familiar with.”
Scaffolding My First hApp in 10 Minutes - by Paul d’Aoust “I wouldn’t call myself a serious developer anymore, but I used to be, and I still love creating programs. So I took Holochain’s new scaffolding tool for a spin, just to see what it’s like. And I did it — I made my first-ever hApp, and it works!”
🌟Latest News from the Holoverse:
HummHive - Technical Update Feb 2023 - HummHive have been busy with updates since the start of the year including; the ability to import contacts, using a federated website generator, single storage provider for data, multiple hives per user.
If you have a Holochain Project and have news, events, articles or videos you’d like to submit for possible Newsletter inclusion, please contact us and/or become a Creator/Member!
🌟 Upcoming Events:
Holochain Launcher - Exploring Herddit - We’re holding the first of our free Holochain Launcher zoom calls on Sunday 26th March at 2PM EST, 11AM PST, 7PM BST. We’ll be playing with Herddit, the Holochain reddit clone. Pre-registration is required.
Neighbourhoods: Collective Sensemaking with Web3 - Fri 17th Mar 2023, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm NZDT, Dev Academy Aotearoa - Auckland Campus and Sat 25th Mar 2023, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm NZDT, Dev Academy Aotearoa - Wellington Campus. “Join us for an interactive session with Sid Sthalekar (of Neighbourhoods) and Lucas Tauil (of Holochain). They'll talk about sensemaking at scale with Web3, how Neighbourhoods and Holochain technology can help - and the larger implications for community based engagement and coordination.”
🌟 Newest Videos:
What Developers Think of Holochain - ETHDenver 2023 - Interview from one of the 3 Holochain BUIDL days at ETHDenver 2023
IOEN - The Project: 10 Play. National Australian News Channel Network 10 featured IOEN on 21 February. You’ll need to be located in Australia or use a VPN to watch the video
Neighbourhoods Toolkit: Holochain-in-Action - Neighbourhoods is developing code and standards to help coordinate social sensemaking activities across many compact, modular, interoperable hApps from a variety of in-house and independent sources.
🌟 Job Board
Technical Project Manager, Holo EMEA - 100% Remote Work
Senior Software Tester, Holo - 100% Remote Work
Developer Relations Lead, Holo - 100% Remote Work
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Annual Global Sociocracy Conference - 4th - 5th May Online “Learn everything about shared power from sociocracy practitioners around the planet at the Sociocracy Annual Conference”
ProSocial World Facilitators Group of Practice - Tuesdays from 14th March at 12pm and also at 7pm US Eastern Time. “We are very excited to kickstart our facilitators’ community of practice in March! Together we will be facilitating conversations around what’s possible ‘here, now’ for everybody… By facilitators we mean practitioners who invest time and effort honing their skills enabling benevolent unfolding. It is not necessary to have completed the ProSocial facilitator training to join us! This space is for you if you self-identify as a facilitator and you resonate with the ProSocial world view (a.k.a you are excited and curious about cultural evolution, behavioral change and Elinor Ostrom’s core design principles for managing Commons)”. (Click the times to register)
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