Beyond the Cloud

Imagine a world where organizational boundaries disappear completely. Where collaborating with a contractor in Tokyo is as seamless as working with a colleague next door. Where your workspace isn’t confined to your company, but extends across the entire globe through a secure, decentralized network. This isn’t science fiction – it’s Huly’s vision for the future of work, and it’s happening sooner than you think.

While most organizations are still debating their deployment options (learn more about Huly Cloud vs Self-Hosted), we’re leaping several steps ahead. In the next few months, we’re launching Global Huly – a revolutionary platform that will fundamentally transform how people collaborate. And that’s just the beginning. Our ultimate destination? A fully decentralized, blockchain-powered collaboration network that will make traditional deployment choices obsolete.

Breaking Down Collaboration Barriers

Current solutions aren’t enough for today’s collaboration needs. While some vendors market workspace isolation as a security feature, we see it as a limitation. Why? Because real-world collaboration doesn’t respect organizational boundaries.

The reality is that 99% of users don’t work in isolated workspaces. Whether you’re a freelancer, agency, or huge transnational corporation, you always collaborate with people outside your organization. You have vendors, contractors, outsourcers, clients, users, and various other external partners. The current model of isolated workspaces creates artificial barriers to natural collaboration patterns.

The Huly Vision for Global Collaboration

Imagine a world where:

• Your identity is truly yours, as permanent as your email address (e.g., [email protected])
• You can collaborate with anyone, anywhere, instantly
• Workspaces become fluid, lightweight containers for collaboration
• All your information is accessible in one place, yet perfectly organized

The current landscape of cross-organization collaboration is surprisingly limited. Slack’s shared channels feature stands alone in attempting to bridge organizational boundaries, but it only addresses chat communication – a fraction of modern collaboration needs.

Think about your daily work: you’re not just chatting. You’re collaborating on documents, managing projects, assigning tasks, tracking deadlines, and coordinating complex workflows. At Huly, we’re breaking down these barriers across the entire collaboration spectrum. Whether you’re working on project timelines with your contractors, sharing documents with clients, or managing tasks across partner organizations – everything should flow as seamlessly as if you were all part of the same organization.

Blockchain as the Foundation

Security remains a key consideration in any deployment choice. While implementing Global Huly presents unique challenges that can’t be solved with traditional approaches, especially for infinite scaling, our architecture is evolving to incorporate blockchain principles – as blockchains are inherently designed as globally distributed databases.

Our roadmap includes:

1. Launching Global Huly with initial blockchain components,
2. Implementing end-to-end encryption across all workspaces,
3. Eventually transitioning to Huly Chain™ – a fully permissionless blockchain.

Decentralized Platform Governance

The next generation of Huly will be fully blockchain-based. This permissionless blockchain will ensure that nobody – not even Huly’s creators – controls the platform. The infrastructure will rely entirely on community resources, with everyone becoming a type of “hoster”, but not just for themselves – for the entire Huly World.

At this stage, the traditional distinction between deployment options will dissolve, converging into a singular entity: Huly on Blockchain. This represents not just an evolution, but a revolution in how we think about software deployment and collaboration.

Transforming Global Work

We’re not just building another collaboration tool – we’re creating the future of how people work together. From traditional deployment choices to a revolutionary global collaboration network, and ultimately to a community-owned blockchain platform, Huly is evolving to break down every barrier to human collaboration.

The best part? This journey has already begun. While you can still choose between cloud and self-hosting today, we invite you to think bigger. The future of collaboration isn’t about where your software runs – it’s about connecting people and ideas in ways that were never before possible.

Stay tuned for the imminent launch of Global Huly, and join us as we build toward a future where collaboration knows no bounds.