ADAM Platform
The open development & community platform you're looking at — built end to end on a free-tier edge stack.
ADAM is the platform you're looking at right now — an open development studio site, built end to end and running entirely on a free-tier, edge-first stack.
Architecture
API-first by design. A single Cloudflare Workers backend owns all logic; every client — the web app and the adam CLI — is a thin shell over the same HTTP API.
- Backend — Cloudflare Workers + Hono (TypeScript), D1 (SQLite) as the database, KV for sessions and caching, native rate limiting, and Analytics Engine for visit metrics
- Web — Astro 5, server-rendered on Cloudflare Pages, 8-language i18n
- CLI —
adam, a token-authenticated admin tool — the primary control surface (web admin is secondary)
Engineering highlights
- CLI-first operations. Every resource is fully manageable from the command line, with strict create↔delete symmetry. Project bodies are README.md files — local images auto-upload to a CDN and get rewritten on publish.
- One markdown pipeline. Community posts, bug notes, and project bodies share a single renderer — stored as source, rendered on read.
- Cascade-correct data model. Soft deletes throughout; deleting a project cascades its changelog, versions, and bug reports.
Security
- Google sign-in (OpenID Connect) — no passwords ever stored; CLI tokens kept as SHA-256 hashes, shown once at issue
- Token auth re-loads the issuer on every request — demote the admin and the token dies instantly
- Bot-resistant by design — Google verifies real humans at sign-in, backed by UA filtering and native rate limiting; login-anomaly detection (IP / country)
The stack, in full
Cloudflare Workers · D1 · KV · Pages · Astro · Hono · Google OAuth · ImageKit — all within free-tier limits.
Improvements for this project
- Feature Secret posts: any member can now post privately — only you and the operators can read it Done
- Feature Staff-only community posts — hidden from the board, its count, neighbours and comments Done
- Improvement Added an automated test suite so this class of regression is caught before release Done
- Critical Fixed: the open bug count never went down, even after reports were resolved Done
- Critical Fixed: posting a notice from the admin CLI failed after the English migration Done
- Improvement Support notification channel can now be changed without a redeploy Done
- Improvement Privacy policy corrected: removed a retired processor, disclosed project notifications Done
- Improvement Privacy notice now shown during signup, in all 8 languages Done
- Improvement Renamed "My purchases" to "My projects" — there is no payment flow Done
- Improvement Live chat errors now shown in your own language instead of English Done