Introduction

Build decentralized social apps with the Orbis SDK

By using the Orbis SDK, developers can build their own decentralized social apps or add a decentralized social layer to their existing application in a very easy and performant way.

Why you should build on Orbis

Orbis offers many advantages to developers interested in building decentralized social applications:

• No transaction fees

• Users don’t have to sign a message for each action they take

• Write times are very fast which offers a user experience similar to web2

• Every piece of content shared on Orbis is decentralized on the Ceramic network and anyone can access it

• There is a full composability between apps built on the Orbis ecosystem

• Our SDK makes it extremely easy ti get started

• (Coming soon) Multi-chain: Users can join Orbis using additional chains such as Cosmos or Solana and interact together in the same digital space

Use cases

Here are some examples of applications that could be built on top of Orbis:

• Full social apps like orbis.club

• Decentralized & encrypted messaging system

• Fully customizable & embedded group chat servers

• Decentralized Discourse governance forums

• Decentralized support system (similar to Intercom)

• Decentralized version of Slack

• Decentralized commenting features

• And many other things...

Next steps

Let's get started now! For the next steps we recommend exploring our Github repositories to learn more about Orbis' architecture or directly get started by installing the Orbis SDK.