Status
Last updated: October 9, 2025
TL;DR
Cloudillo is currently in alpha — it’s functional but experimental. You can try it out, explore features, share feedback — but expect rough edges. We don’t guarantee that your data is safe, private, or you can migrate to a newer version.
💬 Ways to connect and explore:
- Join the conversations on Discord.
- Try Cloudillo using our Docker images.
- Browse our early Technical Documantation.
- Explore the source code on GitHub.
- The new backend (in Rust) lives here.
- If you feel like it, support the project on Patreon.
Platform Overview
The original TypeScript backend already supports several core features:
Community (social) features:
- Feeds, posting, commenting, reactions
- Document storage and real-time collaborative editing
- Quillo word processor
- Sheello spreadsheet app
- Direct (1:1) messaging — group chat coming soon
Rust port
We are currently porting the platform backend to Rust to make it faster, leaner, and more robust.
Why the switch?
- More lightweight, resource-efficient and predictable performance
- A safer, more trustworthy ecosystem than npm
- Fine-grained control over memory, concurrency, and I/O
This effort started in August 2025 as an experiment but quickly became our main development focus. The low-level core is already more resilient than the original TypeScript backend. Look at the Rust Backend Status Page for details.
🎯 Goal: Catch up with the TypeScript version by end of 2025.
Focus: Community Features
Our short-term focus is on community features.
- Easy community profile creation
- User roles and permissions
- Group chat implementation
- Fine-grained access control for documents and files
Mid-Term Goals
We’ve teamed up with Socialroots to explore inter-community collaboration — an exciting and challenging area that could become Cloudillo’s third major feature, following full user data ownership and the unification of collaboration tools in one platform.
Get Involved
We’re building Cloudillo in the open. If you’d like to:
- Contribute code
- Share feedback
- Help test and document features