Nate Smith

Hi, I'm Nate. I love movies and TV shows, building things, and wondering about panpsychism and quantum physics.

By day I'm CTO at DTC, an MSP.

The hive is coming.

Open, free apps you run yourself. Built by a team of AI agents.

Making things is what I love most. I used to write the code myself. I don't have to anymore. Now I build with a team of AI agents: I say what I want, they build it, review each other, and sometimes argue about it. I mostly just point, and it's the most fun I've ever had making things.

What's in the hive

nectar goes first; it's the furthest along. The rest are flying in behind it.

  1. nectar

    My own media server. Next up: offline downloads that actually work.

    first up
  2. hive-mind

    One home for all your apps. Your hardware, private by default.

    coming soon
  3. scct-versus

    Spies vs. Mercs, rebuilt. Bots that play like people.

    A fan revival of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's versus mode.

    coming soon
  4. libstack

    A knowledge base that's yours.

    coming soon
  5. immichsync

    Your photos, synced. No one else's cloud.

    coming soon

One day nectar and the other apps will run on hive-mind. That's the plan, anyway.

All open. All free.

Expensive SaaS is dead. Empower everyone.

The old SaaS rents your own stuff back to you, one subscription at a time. This is the new SaaS. Not software as a service: service as a software. You run it. It's yours.

Why I build

I solve my own problems first. If what I make helps you too, use it, free. I'm not selling anything.

If you'd like to chip in, donations and sponsorships keep the lights on, and the GPUs warm.

Donations open soonSponsorships: soon

Want to work this way?

If you want to learn AI workflows, or bring them into your business, that's where DTC comes in. We're starting to help teams build like this. More soon.

I filled my gaps. How are you filling yours?

Take action. Don't wait.

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The community is almost ready. Follow @nate.gumbees and you'll know the moment it opens.