Internet users (and future AI agents) lost control over their software due to SaaS: an app may be up-priced, bankrupt, hacked, undesirably upgraded.
With IC Pack package manager, you have full control over your remote software, as if it were installed on your PC: Nobody can update or delete your app without your consent. In other words: Bitcoin is a platform for self-sovereign money, IC Pack is a platform for self-sovereign remote apps. While the user pays for hardware, the app works.
It is implemented using ICP blockchain magic "fully on-chain", where the entire software, including the frontend, is served from a blockchain. (You don't even need to install a browser extension.) It can be used with other blockchains, too, using (or not using) Chain Fusion technology. Ethereum apps with frontend hosted on traditional cloud may be hacked by hacking their frontend, but IC Pack platform is meant to be un-hackable.
IC Pack is a pre-MVP, but mostly finished software. It remains mainly add payment infrastructure (the user needs to pay for gas) and fix minor bugs.
Developers will also benefit due to removal of the need to manage their own infrastructure (like AWS) to host apps: The apps will be hosted by users with simplicity like Google Play.
Video demonstrating that the software mostly works.
IC Pack package manager History
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applied to the GG23 OSS - Web3 Infrastructure 2 weeks ago which was rejected