OpenTweet

Social media shouldn't be controlled by a single company. That thought kept coming back to me every time another platform changed its rules overnight, killed third-party apps, or manipulated what people see in their feeds.

I started building OpenTweet because I wanted a Twitter-like experience that belongs to the people who use it — open-source, transparent, and community-driven. No algorithms deciding what you should care about. No ads injected into your timeline. Just posts from people you choose to follow.

The technical challenge was part of the draw too. Building a real-time social platform that can scale is a hard engineering problem, and hard problems are the ones worth solving. Every piece of OpenTweet — from the feed system to the infrastructure — is built with that mindset.

It's still early days, but the foundation is solid and the vision is clear: give people a social platform they actually own.