From Health Data to AI Mindmaps: Developers Are Building Real Apps with Hypergraph
It's been one week since The Graph unveiled at , and the developer response has exceeded expectations. Teams are already building next-generation consumer applications that demonstrate the transformative power of user-owned data. This was the missing piece to connect all data in a web3-native way. From AI-powered collaboration tools to personal health data vaults, developers are proving that web3's promise of data ownership isn't just theoretical. It's happening now. Hypergraph is on the road to become the foundational knowledge layer for the next era of (d)apps.
The Problem Hypergraph Solves
Before Hypergraph, developers faced an impossible choice: build a traditional web2 app that locks in user data, or limit themselves to purely onchain functionality. Both options failed to offer a secure, composable, and user-owned experience. Even when apps tried to handle private user preferences and data like personal documents, health records, or collaborative workspaces, this data remained trapped in silos.
Without decentralized knowledge graphs to transform this siloed data into composable, interoperable building blocks, true data portability was impossible. Apps couldn't share data structures or build on each other's schemas. Developers couldn't build on each other's data models, and users couldn't port their digital life from one app to another. Hypergraph changes this with private P2P sync servers where all data is encrypted client-side.
This isn't just about moving data between apps; it's about enabling data composability at scale, all while maintaining absolute user ownership. Hypergraph makes it possible for apps to interoperate at the data layer without compromising privacy or decentralization. Neither traditional nor existing web3 options deliver on this fundamental promise of giving users control over their interconnected digital lives.
How Hypergraph Transforms App Development
Hypergraph introduces a local-first and open-source framework that unifies public and private data management. By storing private data on users' devices and enabling end-to-end encrypted sharing, developers can now build feature-rich consumer applications without compromising on web3 principles. It unlocks new categories of (d)apps, like AI-co pilots, personal data vaults, decentralized productivity tools, and more. All of which was previously impossible in web3.
The framework provides three key innovations:
Local-First Storage: User data remains on a sync server and can only be accessed by people who have keys to the data, this is done by default, ensuring true ownership and eliminating central points of failure. Apps read and write data locally, with optional synchronization for collaboration.
GRC-20 Knowledge Graphs: These composable data structures enable seamless interoperability between applications. Your fitness data from one app can enhance your wellness insights in another, all under your control.
Unified Developer Experience: Simple React hooks and TypeScript SDKs make building with Hypergraph as straightforward as traditional web development. No blockchain expertise required.
Real Applications, Real Impact
In just one week, developers have already built compelling applications that showcase Hypergraph's potential:
Hypermaps: Redefining Collaborative Intelligence
One standout project from the Developer Preview is Hypermaps (hypermaps.vercel.app), an AI-enhanced mind mapping tool that demonstrates the power of private spaces. Users create mind maps, ask AI questions about their content, and receive contextual answers, all stored securely in their private Hypergraph space.
The developer successfully implemented advanced features like Relations and Type.Date, showcasing how complex data structures work seamlessly in a local-first environment. By migrating from Vite to Next.js to support AI backend endpoints, they proved Hypergraph's flexibility across different architectures.
Livus: Your Health Data, Finally Yours
Livus tackles a fundamental problem in personal health tracking: data fragmentation. By pulling data from Whoop and Oura Ring APIs into a private Hypergraph space, users can finally aggregate their health metrics in one place and share them selectively with apps they trust.
This isn't just about convenience. It's about ownership. Your sleep patterns, heart rate variability, and activity data belong to you, portable across any application that earns your permission.
ClearsignKit: Decentralizing Smart Contract Intelligence
Smart contract interactions often feel like signing a black box. ClearsignKit changes this by analyzing contracts and publishing enhanced UI metadata to the Public Knowledge Graph. Unlike existing solutions that rely on centralized repositories requiring corporate approval, ClearsignKit democratizes contract intelligence.
The team even built a Hardhat plugin, demonstrating how Hypergraph integrates seamlessly into existing developer workflows. This is decentralization applied to developer tools themselves.
Developer Insights Shape The Graph's Path Forward
The ETH Global hackathon revealed both victories and opportunities. Developers quickly grasped schema design and successfully implemented complex features like many-to-many relations. The transition from traditional web development to Hypergraph proved remarkably smooth, with teams building functional applications in hours, not weeks.
The Graph also identified areas for improvement. Infrastructure reliability, particularly around IPFS, needs strengthening. Documentation gaps around backend querying patterns became clear. These insights directly inform the immediate roadmap. The Graph isn't building in a vacuum, but alongside the community.
The Ecosystem Effect Already Emerging
What excites The Graph core dev teams most about the early success of Hypergraph is the organic ecosystem development. Teams are publishing reusable properties and types to the knowledge graph, creating building blocks for future developers. For example, Cosmiq's AI-powered web3 app generator has already published smart contract metadata that other apps can leverage. Additionally, BetterBoxd demonstrated how social features can work with user-controlled data.
This is the compound effect of composability. Each application makes the next one easier to build.
What This Means for Web3
Hypergraph represents a fundamental shift in how to think about web3 applications. Developers don’t have to choose between functionality and philosophy anymore. Instead, consumer apps can now offer the rich features users expect while delivering on web3's core promise: you own your data, you control your digital life.
For developers, this means building apps that users actually want to use daily. Social networks, productivity tools, health trackers, creative platforms, all with built-in data portability and user sovereignty.
For users, it means freedom. Your journal entries, fitness goals, creative works, and social connections travel with you. No platform lock-in. No data hostages. Just applications that respect your digital autonomy.
Build Web3 The Way It Was Meant To Be
The first week of Hypergraph has shown something remarkable: developers are ready to build the consumer web3 everyone has been waiting for. The tools exist. The framework works. The community is energized.
If you're a developer frustrated by the limitations of current web3 infrastructure, or excited by the possibility of building truly user-centric applications, now is your moment. The Hypergraph Developer Preview is open, the documentation is growing daily, and the community is here to help.
Visit to get started. Join The Graph's Discord to connect with other builders. Most importantly, start building the application you wish existed. With Hypergraph, you finally can.
The future of web3 isn't just about financial primitives and NFTs. It's about every application respecting user sovereignty. It's about data portability as a default, not an afterthought. It's about building the internet everyone deserves.
That future started one week ago. Where will you take it next?
About The Graph
is the leading indexing and query protocol powering the decentralized internet. Since launching in 2018, it has empowered tens of thousands of developers to effortlessly build and leverage across countless blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Celo, Soneium, and Avalanche. With powerful tools like Substreams and Token API, The Graph delivers high-performance, real-time access to onchain data. From low-latency indexing to rapid token data, it serves as the premier solution for building composable, data drive dapps.
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