Get Involved — how to use, build on, or host the platform

· 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 platform as a hosting company.

The foundation builds software so that communities can own themselves. There is no membership to apply for — you take part by using it, and there are four ways in.

Run your own page or site

Register on shopnseo.com, shopnseo.ru or on a community server such as qwetru.ru, and start with the Start tier — a personal page or subdomain. It is free as long as you build and run it yourself, and it stays free: that is a rule of the platform, not a trial period.

Host a community server

The Server tier puts the whole platform on your own cloud VPS. You open it to your circle — friends, readers, customers — and hand out the tiers below to them. The advertising on your server is sold by you and the revenue stays with you; the software is ours, the community and the money are yours. This is the arrangement the foundation exists to make ordinary.

Build on it as a studio

Web studios can run client projects on the platform without any infrastructure of their own. Three studios already do, each covering one part of the job — design, development, content; see the platform and live sites. Studios in other languages and markets are welcome: nothing about the platform is tied to one region.

Offer it as a hosting company

If you sell VPS plans, the Server tier turns a virtual machine into a product: your customers get a ready-to-run community platform they can monetize, and you get a reason for them to stay. Details are on the platform's partner page.

Talk to us

Questions about the foundation, the platform or a partnership: web@hildus.com. We answer personally.