Building a Dating App with No Backend: How I used Rust, Tauri 2.0, and P2P Mesh Networking to Fight the Loneliness Pandemic
Ben Sivan developed Aura, a dating app that operates without a central backend by using Rust, Tauri 2.0, and peer-to-peer mesh networking to prioritize user privacy and combat loneliness. The app stores all data locally on users' devices and uses encrypted P2P communication to discover and share profiles in a decentralized network. Aura also implements a relational reputation system to enhance trust without relying on centralized moderation.
- ▪Aura is a dating app built with no central server, using local-first and serverless architecture.
- ▪The app uses Rust for encrypted storage, P2P networking, and a local machine learning model, while the UI is built with React and Vite.
- ▪Devices in Aura's network propagate encrypted user profiles through physical movement using a gossip mesh protocol.
- ▪User trust is managed via a decentralized reputation mesh with locally calculated 'Relational Valence' scores.
- ▪Aura is open-source under AGPL v3 and is being prepared for publication on F-Droid.
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