HoloKudos

What is HoloKudos and what is it for?

HoloKudos is a peer recognition app where people give each other short signed notes of thanks, called kudos, for work worth noticing. Its stated purpose is that this record of reputation belongs to the person it describes, written and signed by the giver rather than managed by anyone who could quietly change or remove it.

HoloKudos is a peer recognition project: a way for people to thank each other for work worth noticing and to keep that record of thanks. Its stated purpose is that reputation should belong to the person it describes — the notes are written and signed by the giver rather than held by an administrator who could silently edit or delete them.

Giving a kudo means picking a colleague, choosing one of six categories — Collaboration, Code Quality, Mentorship, Innovation, Helpfulness or Communication — and writing a short note. The note is signed with the giver's own private key, so authorship cannot be forged, and it is shared with the other peers running the app instead of sitting in one organisation's database. Each participant also keeps a local chain of their own activity, giving a tamper-evident history of what they have done.

As a concrete example, the repository ships a script that starts two agents on one machine so a kudo can pass between them over the network on localhost — a way to watch the peer-to-peer flow working before building the Windows or Linux desktop bundle. The project repository is where to learn more: it documents the build steps for the full app, the browser demo, and the categories a kudo can be given for.

From 1 public source, checked 23 September 2026.