Medet Ahmetson

Ara is my personal dream. I've been working on it quietly since I began learning programming in the 2010s, refining the same line of thought over many years.

From the beginning, I was drawn to ideas that felt ahead of their time: AI, visual programming, Web 3.0, and decentralization. Back then, AI largely meant Expert Systems, Web 3.0 referred to the Semantic Web, and decentralization was mostly associated with peer-to-peer networks. That was the landscape I learned in.

I noticed that these ideas struggled with adoption—not because they were wrong, but because they were incomplete when taken alone. Rather than becoming a specialist in each area, I focused on how they could work together as a single system.

A major influence on this thinking was the book Tango: The Operating System, which explored what the computer of the future might look like. It pushed me to think beyond individual technologies and toward how people would actually interact with such systems.

Instead of building a new operating system or breaking existing ones apart, I chose a simpler path: creating something compatible that could live on top of what already exists. Ara is my attempt to make that future a reality compatible with today's technology.

After many iterations, and with today's technology, it finally became possible.