Weaver is designed to be a highly flexible platform for medium and long-form writing on atproto. I was inspired by how weaver birds build their own homes, and by the notebooks, physical and virtual, that I create in the course of my work, to ideate, to document, and to inform. The initial proof-of-concept is a static site generator, able to turn a Markdown text file or a folder of Markdown files, such as an Obsidian vault or git repository documentation, into a static "notebook" site. The file is uploaded to your PDS, where it can be accessed, either directly, via a minimal appview layer that provides a friendlier web address than an XRPC request or CDN link, or hosted on a platform of your choice, be that your own server or any other static site hosting service.

The intermediate goal is an elegant and intuitive writing platform with collaborative editing and straightforward, immediate publishing via a web-app. The ultimate goal is to build a platform suitable for professional writers and journalists, an open alternative to platforms like Substack, with ways for readers to support writers, all on the AT protocol. Currently it is in the earliest stages of development, working on core components such as the parsing and rendering backend, command-line client, and initial web service backend ('appview' in ATProto terms).