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👋 Let's Get to Know Each Other!

Welcome to r/CarbonItLabs! 🚀

We're building a nonprofit open-source community where people with different skills and interests can come together to create projects, learn from one another, and turn ideas into real products.

Let's start by getting to know the people in our community!

Introduce yourself in the comments:

  • 👋 What should we call you?
  • 💡 What are you interested in?
  • 🛠️ What skills do you have, or what would you like to learn?
  • 🌱 Are you a beginner, a student, or an experienced contributor?
  • 🚀 What kind of projects would you love to work on?

You don't need to be an expert, and you don't need to know how to code. We need people interested in programming, design, research, cybersecurity, writing, testing, documentation, project management, and much more.

Every great project needs different kinds of people.

Your skills, experience, or curiosity could be the start of something great.

Let's meet the community! 👇

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u/dotcodedev — 5 days ago

🔐 Learning Cybersecurity? Come Build With Us.

We're building CarbonIt Labs, a nonprofit open-source community where people with different skills and interests can come together to build real projects.

And you don't have to be a cybersecurity expert or even a programmer to contribute.

A successful project needs much more than code.

We need people who can:

💻 Build the software

🎨 Design the UI/UX and graphics

🖌️ Create logos and branding

🧠 Research and explore new ideas

🔐 Work on cybersecurity and privacy

📝 Write documentation and tutorials

🧪 Test and improve software

📢 Help with communication and community

📦 Package and release projects

🚀 Help take an idea all the way from concept to a finished product

The goal is to create a community where different people bring different strengths, form teams, learn from each other, and contribute to open-source projects.

You might be a developer, designer, student, researcher, writer, tester, artist, cybersecurity enthusiast, or simply someone with an idea and the motivation to learn.

There should be a place for every kind of builder.

If you'd like to learn, contribute, collaborate, or build something from scratch with others, join us at:

👉 r/CarbonItLabs

Let's build projects together — from the first idea and first sketch to the final release.

Build. Collaborate. Open Source. 🚀

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u/dotcodedev — 5 days ago

Indian developers — want to build something together?

I’m building CarbonIt Labs, a nonprofit open-source community for developers, coders, designers, researchers, and students who want to build real projects together.

We’re creating a structured community where you can:

💻 Find people to build with

💡 Share and develop project ideas

🤝 Join open-source projects

🧠 Learn from other developers

🎨 Collaborate on design & product

🚀 Start something from scratch

It’s not just a place to share projects — the goal is to form teams, assign roles, build openly, and actually ship things together.

If you're from India and looking for people to build with, we'd love to have you.

👉 r/CarbonItLabs

Come with an idea, a skill, or just curiosity. Let's build. 🇮🇳

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u/dotcodedev — 7 days ago

I built a desktop password manager in Python — one of the hardest parts was securing the UI ↔ backend bridge

I’m Edwin Sam K Reju, a Class 12 Computer Science student from Kerala.

I’ve been working on an open-source desktop password manager called CarbonIt Vault.

The project started because I wanted to experiment with a different architecture for storing credentials: keep the encrypted vault local instead of making a cloud service part of the core design.

I built the application with Python + pywebview.

The part I found most interesting was the boundary between the web UI and the Python backend.

The UI needs to request things like unlocking the vault, reading entries, adding entries, and locking the vault, but I didn't want the frontend to have unrestricted access to the underlying Python API.

So I implemented a runtime session-token mechanism for the bridge and limited what the frontend can invoke.

The cryptographic side currently uses Argon2id, ML-KEM-1024, SHA3-512 and authenticated encryption. I also implemented local rate limiting, clipboard clearing and encrypted vault import/export.

I'm still learning, and this project hasn't had an independent security audit. One thing I've learned from building it is that choosing strong primitives is only one part of designing a secure application — the surrounding architecture and threat model matter just as much.

I'd like feedback from developers here on the Python/pywebview architecture and the UI ↔ backend security boundary.

GitHub: https://github.com/CarbonIt-Labs/CarbonIt-Vault

What would you change in this architecture?

u/dotcodedev — 15 days ago