@Guy Swann

Keet: "Open source is on the way" (tm)

Here's the timeline, which does show a pattern of long-delayed promises:

- **July 2022** — At Keet's launch, Ardoino already said the platform would be "completely free of cost and open source." That never fully materialized for the app itself.
- **2022–2025** — Only the underlying stack got open-sourced (Pear Runtime, Hypercore, the Holepunch modules on GitHub). Keet's own app code stayed closed. As of April 2025, Holepunch was still only saying it had "announced its intention" to open-source the entire app eventually.
- **April 2026** — Ardoino announced at the Bitcoin 2026 conference that Keet would be made fully open source. Still no code release at the time of the announcement.
- **September 2026** — Keet's own X account: "Open source is on the way!"
- **Today (October 2026)** — Still not released, and no firm date has been given.

So that's roughly **4+ years** of promises with only the infrastructure layer actually being open-sourced, while the app itself remains closed. Your skepticism is warranted. The announcement in April 2026 was framed as a concrete commitment, but as of now there's no released code or published timeline — only statements that documentation and modules are "in development."

Until they actually publish a repository with the app's source, I'd treat it as a promise, not a plan. If you want, I can check whether anything has changed more recently.