Hologram runs Elixir in the browser and seeks sponsors for local-first apps
Bart Blast shipped four feature releases in 2026, but the next phase depends on replacing expiring milestone funding with company sponsors.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Hologram
Why it matters
Hologram shows how a solo maintainer can turn sponsorship into a serious release cadence. Its next test is whether companies will fund core infrastructure before the promised local-first layer exists.
Bart Blast (@Bart_Blast) is asking companies to fund a local-first data layer for Hologram, the open-source framework he has spent six years building to run Elixir code in web browsers.…
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