Patchwork is a decentralized sharing app. It was built for friends of the SSB project, to test basic functions. We use it as a test-bed for features, and for our own daily messaging.

Because SSB is a research project, you'll need to contact an SSB team member (in #scuttlebutt on Freenode) to get onto the network! That's our informal barrier to entry right now, since we're not prepared for lots of users yet.

Patchwork embeds Scuttlebot, so if you're running Patchwork, you don't need to run another scuttlebot server.

Install node v4.2 (you might like to use nvm).

npm install ssb-patchwork -g

patchwork

If it's your first time running patchwork, follow the on screen instructions to start a new identity and join a pub server.

to build for windows:

# Linux dependencies
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y
apt-get update
apt-get install nsis wine

# OSX dependencies
brew install makensis wine

npm install -d
npm run build
npm run pack

Relevant docs:

• https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager
• https://github.com/loopline-systems/electron-builder
• https://github.com/atom/electron/tree/master/docs