We're bringing user data agency to the web.
Your data should be yours forever, not the property of companies who want to use it to turn a profit. We are laying the technical foundations to change the default settings of the web and break free from the cycle of data capture that currently exists online.
How habitat works
habitat provides a place where all your data lives and can be controlled by you. Developers build frontend apps—no third-party servers involved—so you can interact with that data how you normally would, but safe from extraction and spying. This is built on ATProtocol, an open protocol for the internet.
The old way
Today, apps own the data you create with the app, and in order to share data with people, they need to use the same app. This enables monopolies to build data moats that stifle competition while offering inferior experiences to users.
The habitat way
With habitat, you own your data and apps run locally on your device. Data is shared directly without involving third parties that can accumulate it. Apps are built to be compatible to leverage existing data to bring innovative user experiences.
Big Tech continues to harvest and steal our data.
We're actually doing something about it.
Over the last decade, we've collectively experienced the internet get meaningfully... worse. Whether because of the attention economy, surveillance capitalism, enshittification, (or all the above and more), it's clear that the state of the web today isn't meant for us, for people. At the core of these issues lies data capture, through which Big Tech, data brokers, and surveillance dragnets have used our data against us. That's why to build a better web, we're trying to bring about user data ownership and agency at a protocol level.