About

Marfa grew out of a frustration: every time I switched apps, something got left behind. It also draws on work with customer data platforms, where one well-modelled source of data is the whole point.

That matters more now that agents can build an app in an afternoon. Apps come and go; the data underneath should last.

Marfa was rebuilt more than once this year. It began as a hosted service that tried to work with everything, which pulled it away from what mattered: a sound data model and a server you can rely on. Now you run it yourself, with a Rust core under its command-line tool and native apps. Marfa Cloud will follow as an optional relay for reaching it from anywhere, without holding your data.

It’s a personal project, not a business, and it ships when it works. Marfa is free and open source.

What’s next

  1. Early October Development builds, open source
  2. Late October Marfa 0.1, the first semi-stable release
  3. Early November The Mac and iOS apps with early testers
  4. Late November Public TestFlight, Marfa Cloud in testing, and the full website

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