HILDUS exists for one idea: communities should belong to the people who build them.
\nThe Problem
\nThe web taught millions of writers, bloggers and merchants to gather audiences on platforms they do not control. The platform sells the advertising, owns the data, sets the rules and keeps the profit; the community does the work. It is a good deal — for the platform.
\nWhat We Do
\nThe foundation works out the ideas and develops the common software for intellectual communities: any active user can install it on a cloud VPS and open a community of writers, bloggers, sellers and buyers — personal pages, websites, online stores, book clubs and forums, the way subreddits gather people around a topic. Two directions carry the ideas into practice: Shopnseo shapes them for commerce and search, Qwetru for writers and bloggers. The foundation itself sells nothing — it sets the principles; the two directions advise on how to price, and independent studios do the selling and set their own prices.
\nThe One Difference
\nOn a community server built with our software, all advertising is run by the community's host, and all profit goes to the host — not to us, not to anyone else. The foundation provides the software; the audience, the content and the revenue belong to the people who earned them.
\nWhy «Intellectual Communities»
\nBecause the software is built for people who make things with their heads: authors publishing books chapter by chapter, bloggers who own their archive, merchants who earn organic traffic instead of renting it, readers who want to belong to a place rather than feed an algorithm. The name of the foundation says the same thing — see what HILDUS stands for.