OpenVIBE Smart application, which integrates multiple open social networks including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and Threads, has just got a boost towards its future development. The company announced on Tuesday that it had received foreign investments of $ 800,000 in a tour led by Czech founders VC, which includes support from WordPress.com and Mother Tumblr, Automatic, as well as Tensor Ventures.
The former Czech and CTO founders have also invested for Mico Jan široky separately from his company.
OpenVIBE was launched in 2024, initially supported three of the most prominent open social networks, all of which work using different protocols: Mastodon Activitypub uses, Bluesky continues in the protocol, and Nostr fill a number of external applications. OpenVIBE added later support for Instagram threads, as this app has become more integrated with Activitypub and opened itself to the developer community.
Matej Svancer explained at the time, the idea behind his application was to provide users more friendly and “easy -to -use” gate to the open social web. Due to the various protocols used by these networks, it may be difficult for newcomers who end up to switch applications or limit their participation in their favorite primary system only.
But OpenVIBE does not allow people to stay in contact with friends in all these services in a joint schedule, but also allows the publication of multiple networks at one time.
Through the added capital, Svancer plans to accelerate the development of the product, expand the OpenVibe user base, work to integrate with other social platforms, improve the user interface, and more.
In addition, it is worth noting the automatic investment, as the company historically supports projects in An open source spaceEspecially those designed to compete with large technology. (Unfortunately, the CEO of Automattic and WordPress Matt Mullenweg has created a lot of division and drama within the WordPress community over the past few months, which contains some interrogation His commitment to open source values.)
However, OpenVIBE donations indicate that there is some appetite among investors to support applications and services that benefit from new open social protocols. Recently, for example, the famous investor and businessman Mark Kobe put forward an invitation to build video applications on Bluesky’s in the protocol. Bluesky also collected funding, the latest of which is a $ 15 million funds in the past fall.
OpenVIBE is available as a free application on IOS and Android But you plan to enter a subscription plan later to generate revenues.
