Open source · Self-hosted · Not released yet
Your people, all in one cozy place.
Homestead collects links to the people you care about across many social apps and shows you one calm feed. When an app keeps its feed closed, Homestead suggests you go and visit instead.
What Homestead does
Grandma posts on LINE. Your cousin lives on Douyin. Your friend moved to Bluesky.
Keeping up means opening nine apps, each built to keep you scrolling. Homestead is one warm, quiet place that answers a simple question: what are my people up to? It shows what it can, it ends when you're caught up, and it's honest about what it can't see.
It runs on your own server (a home computer, a NAS or a Raspberry Pi) with one Docker container. Your household's data stays there. There's no telemetry and no analytics.
Ways Homestead keeps you close
Everything here comes from the app's specification. Anything not yet merged is marked.
Paste anything
Profile links, share-sheet text, @handles or a whole list. Homestead finds the platform and the person.
Available on main (S-04, W-03)One calm feed that ends
Stories and posts from your people, ranked simply, with "You're all caught up" at the bottom.
Available on main (S-09, W-05)Hearth picks
When a platform keeps its feed closed, Homestead suggests a visit and opens the app in one tap.
Available on main (S-09, W-05)Stories, face by face
A row of faces at the top. Tap one and watch their stories full-screen, then swipe to the next person.
Available on main (S-09, W-06)Circles you can share
Group people ("Family", "Thai cooking") and share a circle as a link or QR code.
Available on main (S-05, S-13, W-07)One household, many members
Invite family with a QR code. Owners, members and viewers each see the right amount.
Available on main (S-03, W-02)Welcomes your AI agent
Hermes, OpenClaw or any MCP client can add people from chat and fetch stories from apps that need a login.
Available on main (S-07, S-08, S-14)Firefox companion
Visit a followed profile in Firefox and its new posts are saved for the household.
Coming in 1.0 (E-01, E-02, E-03, H-01, S-16, S-17)
A look inside
Calm screens, faces first
How it works
- 1
Run it at home
Start one Docker container on a home server, NAS or Raspberry Pi, then finish setup in your browser.
- 2
Paste your people
Paste profile links, share-sheet messages or @handles. Homestead finds the platform and the person.
- 3
Read one calm feed
Stories and posts from Bluesky, Truth Social and X arrive on their own; agents can fetch the rest.
- 4
Go and say hello
For LINE, WeChat and quiet friends, a hearth pick suggests a visit and opens their app in one tap.
Built in the open
No testimonials yet, just the work
Homestead hasn't had its first release. It's MIT-licensed and developed in public, task by task, by AI agents and people working in parallel, with every change reviewed before it lands on main.
46 of 63 planned tasks are merged. Each milestone has a clear exit check:
- M0 Contracts10/10
- M1 Core16/16
- M2 Feed6/8
- M3 Agents3/5
- M4 Sharing3/4
- M4b Companion8/14
- M5 1.00/6
Read, follow along, pitch in
The docs
Quick start, concepts, guides for agents and the Firefox companion, and the full API reference.
The changelog
Every change on
main, day by day, generated from the repository.
Contributing
How work is split into tasks, how to set up the tools, and where a first change fits.
Come and help build it
Found something odd? Have an idea? Homestead is young, and every issue and pull request helps it grow.