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He spent four years trying to make his collaborative app scale on traditional databases. Then he stopped trying and built one that lives inside the browser. That was 2014. @marknadal set out to build a peer-to-peer database that could survive in any browser tab and still sync correctly after going offline. 19,100 GitHub stars. ~48K weekly npm downloads. Your pick of Zlib, MIT, or Apache 2.0. GUN is an open-source, decentralized graph database. Every browser, phone, and server becomes a peer, and data syncs between them in real time. Here's what makes it different: → ~9KB gzipped, benchmarked by the project at 20M+ API ops/sec → One graph model covers key/value, tables, documents, and even video → Realtime peer-to-peer sync across browsers, devices, and relay servers → Offline-first: writes keep working without a connection and merge when peers reconnect, using CRDT conflict resolution → SEA adds end-to-end encryption and user accounts with no central auth server → AXE clusters relays into a DHT-style mesh to cut redundant traffic → RAD handles storage with a radix-tree serialization layer → The Internet Archive's decentralized dweb.archive.org runs GUN alongside IPFS and WebTorrent → Decentralized takes on Zoom, Reddit, Instagram, Slack, and YouTube have been built on it → Still shipping: new SEA and AXE fixes landed this month Firebase rents you a backend. GUN makes every user part of it. Discovered on OSSphere : ossphere.dev/amark/gun Would you trust your app's data to your users' devices instead of a central server? Drop it below 👇 #Decentralized #LocalFirst #JavaScript #Database #P2P #BuildInPublic #OpenSource