Building Aether: Architectural Breakdown of a Local-First P2P Messenger
Most “secure” messengers today still rely on centralized infrastructure. Whether it’s for signaling, metadata storage, or push notifications, there is almost always a server sitting between you and your recipient. With Aether, I wanted to take a different route. The goal was to build a strictly local-first software architecture. If two devices are on the same network, they should be able to discover each other and communicate directly—no cloud, no central databases, and no intermediary nodes. Here is […]