HeyPuter/puter

Features

• Conversational Models - Sends text prompts to artificial intelligence models and receives generated responses to create interactive user experiences.
• Application Development Platforms - Enables developers to build powerful apps and websites without the need for servers or backend infrastructure.
• Distributed Computing Frameworks - Provides a browser-native execution environment for peer-to-peer communication and decentralized applications.
• Web Desktop Environments - Provides a virtualized graphical workspace within the browser that manages application windows.
• Cloud Native Frameworks - Enables building full-stack applications that leverage integrated cloud storage and serverless backend logic.
• AI Integration Frameworks - Provides a unified interface for integrating and accessing various artificial intelligence models.
• Cloud Storage Services - Provides cloud storage and object management capabilities for persistent data storage.
• Virtual File Systems - Provides a unified cloud-based storage layer that maps remote file operations to a consistent interface.
• Serverless Backend Hosting - Hosts scalable backend services, REST APIs, and webhooks directly within a cloud environment.
• Serverless Platforms - Executes event-driven functions and manages persistent storage without requiring dedicated server infrastructure.
• User Management Systems - Provides comprehensive tools for managing user authentication and identity within applications.
• Cross-Window Orchestrators - Coordinates complex workflows across multiple browser windows by managing shared state and lifecycle events.
• AI Integration Layers - Provides a programmatic interface that abstracts access to generative models for text, image, and audio.
• Image Generation - Creates images from text prompts by configuring model parameters like aspect ratio, quality, and seed.
• Cloud Storage Clients - Provides programmatic access to cloud-based file systems for creating, reading, and organizing remote directories.
• Key-Value Stores - Provides key-value database storage for efficient data management.
• Storage Abstractions - Maps remote storage operations to a consistent interface accessible by all hosted applications.
• Application Lifecycle Management - Allows developers to create, list, update, and delete cloud-hosted application records.
• Serverless Function Management - Creates, deletes, lists, and executes backend functions directly from application code.
• Data Sandboxing - Restricts application access to a sandboxed directory and key-value store to ensure data isolation.
• Sandboxed Environments - Restricts application access to isolated directories and key-value stores to ensure process separation.
• Secure Execution Environments - Executes high-performance scripts within a protected and isolated environment to build scalable applications.
• Session Management - Handles user sessions by initiating sign-in, checking login status, and retrieving profile information.
• System Integrations - Interacts with the operating system to launch external applications, manage menu bars, and retrieve local settings.
• Cross-Window Communication Layers - Provides a communication layer that coordinates state and user actions between isolated browser windows.
• Speech Synthesis - Transforms text into spoken audio using various providers with customizable voice and model settings.
• Data Science Environments - Provides a browser-based cloud computing environment.
• Key-Value Database Clients - Manages persistent data storage through key-value operations like saving, retrieving, and deleting.
• Serverless Orchestration - Executes backend logic in ephemeral containers triggered by web requests or internal events.
• Networking Proxies - Enables direct cross-origin resource fetching and raw socket connections.
• Peer-to-Peer Data Exchange - Provides a decentralized connectivity layer that facilitates secure file and message transfers.
• Peer-to-Peer Networking - Creates direct peer-to-peer connections between browser tabs or clients to exchange messages in real-time.
• Peer-to-Peer Runtimes - Facilitates secure data exchange and real-time communication directly between user clients.
• Authentication Flows - Authenticates users automatically when cloud services are accessed, prompting for sign-in only when necessary.
• Window Managers - Creates new windows, updates window titles, and adjusts the size or screen position of existing windows.
• API Routing - Creates API endpoints for various HTTP methods to process incoming web requests.
• Hosting Management - Provides tools to publish, update, and remove hosted websites by mapping subdomains.
• AI Tool Execution - Performs custom functions or web searches by defining tool specifications for AI models.
• Video Generation - Creates videos using specific models by configuring frame rates, inference steps, and guidance scales.
• Key-Value Pair Managers - Stores and retrieves data using a flexible key-value pair structure.
• Persistent Storage Providers - Saves data with optional expiration timestamps for automatic cleanup.
• Secure Access Tokens - Generates temporary, time-limited URLs for secure direct access to cloud files.
• Remote Worker Execution - Triggers serverless functions by providing target URLs and configuration parameters to process remote operations.
• Message Buses - Coordinates state and user actions between isolated browser windows through a centralized layer.
• Socket Networking - Establishes raw TCP or secure TLS-encrypted socket connections to remote servers to transmit data privately.
• Menu Systems - Defines hierarchical arrays of menu items for organizing user interface commands.
• UI Components - Displays standardized dialogs and control components to maintain a uniform visual experience.
• Web Application Registries - Allows defining new web applications to make them accessible within the desktop environment.
• Audio Transcription - Converts audio recordings into written text by providing a file URL.
• Prompt Caching - Reduces costs for repeated requests by storing and reusing specific message responses from artificial intelligence models.
• Vision Analysis - Identifies and extracts text content from images by providing a file URL and receiving recognized characters.
• Cloud File Uploaders - Transfers local files and data blobs to cloud storage interfaces.
• Cloud File Writers - Saves data directly to cloud storage paths with support for overwriting and directory management.
• Cloud Resource Integrations - Connects external services like databases and artificial intelligence to application logic.
• Worker Context Access - Retrieves global objects and request data within worker handlers to access platform services.
• Cross-Origin Networking - Bypasses standard security restrictions to fetch remote resources and interact with external APIs.
• Inter-Process Communication - Establishes bidirectional communication channels between parent and child applications.
• Message Passing - Enables applications to communicate across isolated browser windows using a centralized message bus.
• User Profile Services - Retrieves user account details including identity, subscription status, and storage limits.
• Event Handlers - Registers event listeners to respond to user actions, window lifecycle changes, and application launch events.
• System Dialogs - Shows native alerts, desktop notifications, and text input prompts to communicate important information.
• Application Event Listeners - Registers handlers to respond to messages and lifecycle events from connected applications.
• Application Messaging Interfaces - Transmits data messages between connected applications using a standardized messaging interface.

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