Toolkit 0.02
Early this year we released a Developer Preview of the NH Social Toolkit. Since then, we have been refactoring our codebase toward an ultra-modular approach for everything from the Neighbourhoods Launcher to our open Design System. This milestone marks a more stable API that you’ll be able to see in action in upcoming demos!
This also means we are ready to focus on creating an ecosystem of NH-compatible applets, and a way to discover them. In these early days, we especially want to facilitate relationships between developers and communities interested in building neighbourhoods. But how?
Introducing the Neighbourhoods Bazaar
Since the beginning, we've imagined a marketplace where developers and communities come together to express and interpret their needs.
Inspired by Rajni Bakshi’s Bazaars, Coversations, and Freedom, we see ‘bazaars’ as places where buying and selling combines with storytelling, politics and even the framing of community values.
The Bazaar is core infrastructure of the NH protocol—the first of more to come. Technically speaking, it will also be the first operational neighbourhood. We’ll use our social toolkit to create it and to invite communities in. $NHT will be the primary settlement currency in marketplace, along with other currencies.
In order to reap the benefits of banding together with other neighbourhoods to fund applets, staking to signal interest and crowd pooling to venture together will be available exclusively using $NHT. Interested parties should inspect our updated White Paper.
For pilot neighbourhoods
What we are most excited about is joining forces with pilot communities that are eager to organize as neighbourhoods. For those of you seeking a high-touch, high-engagement prototyping partnership, please register your interest here or contact us directly at engage@neighbourhoods.network or on our Discord server.
For developers
The forthcoming release of the *more stable* Sensemaker API will be joined by improved documentation, templates, and tutorials for applet developers. Holochain experience is a plus, but not a requirement for jumping in to app development in the Neighbourhoods Bazaar.
What’s most important is your interest in working closely with emerging communities, in concert with the Neighbourhoods team, to establish patterns that support community tech development ventures for years to come.