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Life & fun · January 12, 2017

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Hypergolix, “programmable Dropbox” with client-side encryption

Hypergolix, “programmable Dropbox” with client-side encryption launched on January 12, 2017 with 130 votes, #293 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

Hypergolix is a local background service that enables developers to build networked applications with client-side encryption. It abstracts away networking complexities like NAT traversal and authentication, allowing programmers to share and synchronize data between users through simple Python code. The platform is designed for developers who need secure, programmable data storage without managing infrastructure details.

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From the sources

Hypergolix is “programmable Dropbox”. Think of it like this: Hypergolix runs as a local background service, just like Dropbox does. Once it’s running, instead of spending time worrying about relative IP addresses, NAT traversal, pub/sub brokers, or mutual authentication, your code can just do this: >>> import hgx >>> hgxlink = hgx . HGXLink () >>> alice = hgxlink . whoami >>> bob = hgx . Ghid . from_str ( 'AR_2cdgIjlHpaqGa7K8CmvSksaKMIi_scApddFgHT8dZy_vW3YgoUV5T4iVvlzE2V8qsje19K33KZhyI2i0FwAk=' ) >>> obj = hgxlink . new_threadsafe ( cls = hgx . JsonProxy , state = 'Hello world!' ) >>> obj . share_threadsafe ( bob ) and Hypergolix takes care of the rest. Alice can modify…from pyhgx.readthedocs.io

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