Read this first
Hub is not out. If you came here looking for a client, an installer, or a signup form, you won’t find one. What you will find is the clearest statement we’ve made about where SoloGem is going.
Hub is a small-side place to host and share code. Public open source when you want the world to see it. Fully private when you don’t. Some files live on SoloGem. You can also seed from your own PC, like a seed network for repos. Accounts are in progress. First public look: later this year.
Site: hub.sologem.xyz. Roadmap dump: planned features (yes, it’s ridiculous on purpose).
Why Hub is #1
DeskCore keeps offices usable. ReflexCore keeps competitive PCs honest. Outpost lets people host games on their own machines. SoloXR is still ahead of us. All of that still matters.
Hub is different. It’s the layer that should hold the work itself: the projects, the private experiments, the public libraries, the mods, the tools, the weird half-finished things that still deserve a real home.
We want indie code and private work to have another place to live: SoloGem mirrors for durability, optional seeding from your own PC when you want to help, public when you want company, private when you don’t.
So Hub is our #1 priority. Not a side quest. Not a logo on a roadmap slide. The thing we are steering the company around.
What we’re building for
We’re not pretending Hub replaces every enterprise workflow tomorrow. We’re building for the small side: solo hackers, tiny teams, side projects, game mods, tools, libraries, private vaults of work that still deserve real hosting.
The product goal is simple:
- Host open source with SoloGem mirrors in the mix
- Host private work without making privacy feel like an afterthought
- Let people seed from their own machines when they want to
- Keep SoloGem mirrors for the files that should stay reachable when your laptop sleeps
If you already like another host, keep using it. Hub is for people who want this hybrid option.
The seed network idea
Most git hosts assume one truth: your repo’s real home is their server. You push. They store. You pull. They bill or upsell or change the terms later.
Hub flips the posture.
We host some files. Project pages, READMEs, hot packs, and mirrors that keep popular or important material available even when seeders go offline.
You can host on your PC. Opt in as a seed. Share bandwidth for the projects you care about. Peers pull from whoever is online. Think BitTorrent energy for code and assets, without making “your laptop is the only copy” the whole product.
That hybrid matters. Pure peer-only systems die the second everyone closes their lid. Pure cloud-only systems train you to never leave. Hub wants both: durability from SoloGem where it helps, sovereignty from your machine where it counts.
Public and private. Everything.
Open source is not the only mode. Private is not a guilt trip. Hub is meant for both.
Public repos: share clone links, licenses, tags, discovery through a Hub directory when that exists.
Private repos: keep work off the public map. Friend invites. Access you control. Not “free private until we change our mind.”
Same product. You choose the exposure.
Accounts (in progress)
We are working on accounts. Profiles, repos you own, private access, invites. Nothing to create today. When accounts land, they should feel like ownership, not a funnel into a sales org.
If you want early noise while we build, Discord is the room: discord.gg/34pCtCpQJv.
What Hub is not
- Not released
- Not an alpha you can download tonight
- Not a finished CI platform on day one
- Not “enterprise SSO and 40 compliance logos” as the launch fantasy
- Not a clone of someone else’s host with our logo slapped on
We will ship ugly early versions when they are real. We will not pretend a landing page is a product.
What we are aiming at first
The first public look later this year should make these things feel true:
- You can put a project on Hub and tell people what it is
- You can keep something private
- SoloGem can host some of the bytes so the link still works
- A PC seed client can help share those bytes
- Accounts exist enough to say “this repo is mine”
Everything else on the planned features page is ambition, not a contract. We listed a ridiculous number of ideas on purpose. Ambition should look loud. Shipping should look honest.
How this fits the rest of SoloGem
Outpost already taught us something: people like hosting on their own PC when the product respects that. DeskCore and ReflexCore taught us something else: we can ship Windows software people actually run, with installers on our own CDN.
Hub is the missing piece between “software we make” and “software you make.” If SoloGem is going to keep building tools for local machines, those machines deserve a home for the code and assets that power them.
Imagine Outpost worlds, DeskCore policy packs, ReflexCore profiles, future SoloXR assets, and random indie libraries all living in one Hub-shaped world. That is the long game.
Why now
We just lived through an outage that reminded everyone how fragile a single third-party release pipeline can be. We moved DeskCore and ReflexCore distribution onto SoloGem infrastructure for a reason. Hub is the same instinct, pointed at source and projects instead of only installers.
Also: the small side wants options. Options for where public work lives. Options for private work that don’t feel like a sales conversation.
We’re not waiting around to try something else.
Timeline, said plainly
- Today: announcement, branding, hub.sologem.xyz, planned features page, this post
- Now through later this year: build seed layer, host mirrors, accounts, Windows client foundations
- Later this year: first public look (not pretend-ready, not fake-complete)
- After that: tighten private flows, directory, clone UX, the boring stuff that makes people stay
Dates will slip. Priorities will not. Hub stays #1.
What we want from you
If this resonates:
- Follow @sologemus
- Join Discord and say what you’d host first (public or private)
- Read the planned features list and roast the dumb ones
- Tell us which hosting habits you refuse to give up, so we don’t build a museum piece
If this does not resonate, that’s fine too. Hub doesn’t need everyone. It needs the people who care that the small side still gets to own its tools.
The short version
Hub = SoloGem’s seed-network home for public and private code.
Status = not released yet.
Priority = #1 at SoloGem.
When = later this year for the first public look.
Links
One last thing
We could have shipped a quieter post. “Exciting new product in development.” Soft words. Soft stakes.
That isn’t how SoloGem feels about this.
Hub is the bet. We’re putting it first. We’re telling you before it’s ready, because the point isn’t a surprise launch trailer. The point is building in public enough that the small side can decide whether to care.
Care if you want. Argue with us if you want. We’re glad you’re here either way.
More soon.
SoloGem LLC