Hey

Hey is a decentralized and permissionless social media application built on the Lens Protocol, where people create profiles, publish content and interact on a blockchain-backed network instead of a company-owned one.

This repository is explicitly a historical snapshot. It holds the last publicly available open source version of the code as it existed before May 15, 2026, and development after that date is not open source. The production site may since have gained features, architectural changes, infrastructure changes and security work that are absent here, so nothing in the repository should be read as the current implementation.

What is preserved is a monorepo on a mainstream web and Web3 stack.

• Frontend: TypeScript, React and Next.js, styled with Tailwind CSS.
• Data layer: GraphQL against the Lens Protocol, with PostgreSQL behind it.
• Chain clients: Wagmi and Viem handle wallet connection and contract interaction.
• Tooling: pnpm and Node.js drive the monorepo and the supporting development scripts.

Running it locally calls for Node.js version 22 or later, pnpm, PostgreSQL and Git, with nvm suggested for managing Node versions. Clone the repository, install dependencies from the root and work from there. Treat the result as reference material or a base for a fork rather than as a maintained application you can follow upstream.