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Our Mission
HILDUS is a foundation that develops and distributes software for intellectual communities: platforms where the people who build an audience are the people who…
What HILDUS Stands For
The name HILDUS is an acronym: Human Intellect Linking Digital User Societies. What each word means, and why the foundation chose it.
The Platform & Live Sites
What the foundation ships: the Shopnseo community platform with its four tiers — and the live production sites that run on it today, from community servers to …
Get Involved
Four ways to take part in what the foundation builds: run your own page or site, host a community server, build client projects as a studio, or offer the platf…
How a Community Server Works
What actually happens when you put the platform on your own VPS: what the host controls, where the money goes, what the foundation does and does not do.
Start a Community
The honest version of the steps: choose what the place is about, get a server, invite the first people, decide the rules, and only then think about money.
Questions and Answers
Straight answers about cost, ownership, revenue, lock-in, languages and support — including the parts that are not finished yet.
What Running a Server Costs
An honest breakdown of what hosting a community of sites requires — the money, the time, and the parts that cost nothing. Written for people deciding whether t…
Privacy Policy
What the HILDUS foundation collects through this site, how it is used, and how independent community servers differ.
Terms of Service
Terms for using the hildus.com site and how the HILDUS foundation relates to independently owned community servers.