Basic is the platform for personal computing

The next 1 billion apps will be different. They will be built at exponentially faster rates using newer tools, and by a broader range of people. Yet one thing will remain the same — the best of them will still feel like magic.

However, the future of the web can't be built on the platforms of the past - on walled gardens, centralized clouds, and rigid structures that own your data.

Basic is built on three core principles:

Personal Software & AI

The next generation of software won't be about centralizing data, but about utilizing users' own context & memory to build apps and agents that understand them. Developers shouldn't have to stitch data together across a dozen platforms - they should just build great experiences that plug right into the user's world.

User-owned Data

Your data should live with you, not be rented out to someone else's cloud. When users own their data, apps become portable, personal, and actually interoperable. Instead of platforms competing for lock-in, they compete on experience — and that's how software should be.

Realtime & Multiplayer

Software is better when it's shared. Whether it's humans or AI agents, everyone should be able to collaborate in real time on the same source of truth - without conflicts, lag, or version hell. Realtime sync turns static apps into living systems, where data, people, and context all work together.

…and more!

Basic is built on these principles to help create a new kind of internet - one where users own their data, apps are personal, and collaboration is seamless. But most important, the future of the web will be created by you : like-minded builders who care about the open web and personal computing.

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