Time to build our ownTime to build our own

For too long, we’ve been told to build within their system—to optimize for what already exists, to accept their costs, their constraints, their dependencies. That’s just how things work. But the truth is, their system was never built for us—it was built to keep us dependent. Our vision and our communities deserve more than borrowed infrastructure. We’re building the future, but on someone else’s terms. The more we succeed, the more we owe. That’s not ownership. That’s rent. We refuse to play their game. We refuse to be locked into someone else’s system. We refuse to wait for permission to innovate. We refuse to hand over control of what we build. We choose to build on our own terms—where founders and developers don’t just deploy apps, but where we own the infrastructure itself. Where value stays with the people who create it. Where scale doesn’t come at the cost of control and ownership. The shift has already begun. Because the best layer is the one you own.