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Dev tools · February 16, 2026

Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser

I’m nervous, announcing this, as it isn’t ready to ship out to the general public yet, and I haven’t had any feedback at all from anyone, I’m out on my own here. I think this concept itself is kind of dismissed outright a lot too, and I understand why, I wouldn’t believe me either actually. But, I do believe this is very much worth your time to check out, I am not aware of anything else very much like it. I won’t repeat what is already written on the github README here, but some info: I am a successful semi-retired solo game developer, I have been making my own bespoke game engines since…

Katipo is a minimal alternative internet with a Vulkan based browser launched on February 16, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,883 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Katipo is an http alternative for creating, sharing, hosting, browsing and using apps, games, and websites. - mjdave/katipo

Katipo is a new type of network, a small, free and open platform that lives entirely outside of the existing HTML/CSS/JS/Apache/Chrome based web. The Koru Browser is built on top of Katipo. It can be thought of as a mixture between a web browser and a game engine. You can make games, you can make apps and sites, and Katipo makes it easy to share, load, use, and modify apps and games made by others. The Katipō is an endangered venomous spider from New Zealand. Katipo is being built from first principles by hand without the use of AI. Katipo's goal is to help make a new generation of software that is created and used by real people for meaningful things. Katipo makes it much easier to create,…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

I’m nervous, announcing this, as it isn’t ready to ship out to the general public yet, and I haven’t had any feedback at all from anyone, I’m out on my own here. I think this concept itself is kind of dismissed outright a lot too, and I understand why, I wouldn’t believe me either actually. But, I do believe this is…

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