I've been working on a project called Agora with a friend for a few months, and it's getting to be reasonably usable, so I wanted to announce it here.

Agora is a simple web file server that can be configured to charge for downloads with Lightning Network payments. It is open source and self-hosted.

I can be used to host and sell any kind of content, and integrates with LND to process payments. I can imagine a lot of different kinds of data shops that you could start with Agora. Media, research paper PDFs, standards documents, and more.

It's a pre-MVP at the moment, but is still usable. We're busy adding new features, and hope to have an MVP release out soon. In the future, we hope to add support to make the browsing experience richer, for example with file previews and the ability to play movies and view PDFs directly in the browser.

I you try it out, let us know how it works, and if there are any features you need!

Some links:

- Announcement Blog Post (Hosted by Agora!)
- GitHub Repository
- Twitter Announcement Thread