We are a small, democratically-governed collective specialized in building software products. We aspire to be one of those spaces where autonomous people organize themselves and care for each other, commons are built and a higher level of sharing is reached.
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R&D Collective
Products
A local-first editor with Git-style version control, true privacy, and complete control over your data
Writing
Published on 9/4/2025
Introducing v2 Editor
The manifesto for our brand new rich text editor with version control capabilities, v2. In this post, we describe the basic principles, design decisions and our vision for v2, alongside reflecting on the current state and potential future of knowledge production in society.
Last updated on 9/7/2025
DraftIntroducing Oktana
The introductory text for our newly formed collective, Oktana. Read about why we came together, our critique and vision for work and technology and our desires for the present and future of our initiative.
Published on 1/20/2026
v2 Technical Dive
A deep dive into the technical stack, architecture, and challenges behind our new rich text editor, v2. We share our experience building a local-first cross-platform app, blending TypeScript (Electron) and Haskell (via WASM), and how our integration of Automerge, ProseMirror, and Pandoc enables seamless versioning and format conversion.
Last updated on 9/5/2025
DraftRich Text Representations
This post explores various models for representing rich text: Pandoc, ProseMirror and Automerge. All three models are used in our v2 editor for various use cases: Drafting documents in the web, seamlessly merging even in a live collaboration setting, diffing and converting between formats.
Support our Work
We want to create tools that enhance our capacity for thinking and collaborating, tools that are oriented towards commons and treat knowledge as such. v2 is our first product manifesting this desire: it is a local-first editor with version control capabilities which gives you full agency over your data and is interoperable and composable with other tools. These properties, along with the fact that its source code is open, make v2 resistant to becoming a commodity, which is something expected and desirable for us.
Alongside building tools that embody different values, we also want to analyze the society we are part of, with a view of changing it and weaving emancipatory alternatives. So part of our work is reflecting on how we work and produce, writing essays whose themes span political economy, technology and philosophy.
If you like our work and vision, please consider supporting us financially so that we can do more of this. We statutorily do not accept venture capital investment so that we stay independent and our resources are currently limited and based on personal savings from previous work we've undertaken. It would be amazing for us to reach a point where our work is community-funded as we plan to de-commodify knowledge production as much as possible and organize with like-minded people and initiatives.