E P H E M E

Shared software that knows when to disappear.

Epheme is the platform layer for real-time collaboration where rooms, identities, and state are intentionally short-lived, secure, and composable.

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Our Philosophy

We are Silly Goose Interactive, a tiny studio building tools that feel alive, lightweight, and human. We care about momentum, not machinery. We design software that gets out of the way so people can do things together without ceremony or overhead.

Who We Are

We are Silly Goose Interactive, a tiny studio building tools that feel alive, lightweight, and human.

Why We Build

Most software slows you down before it helps you. It asks for accounts, permissions, onboarding, identity, and commitment before you have even started.

We build the opposite: spaces you can enter instantly, use freely, and leave without a trace. Tools that respect your time, your privacy, and your autonomy.

What We Believe

  • Ephemerality creates freedom. Not everything needs to be saved, tracked, or remembered.
  • Simplicity is a form of respect. The clearest tools are the ones you do not have to think about.
  • Shared state should be intentional. Only what needs to be shared is shared, and only for as long as it is useful.
  • People collaborate best when the software disappears. The tool should feel like a table, not a system.
  • Privacy is not a feature. It is the baseline for trust, creativity, and honest play.

What We Are Making

Epheme is our foundation for building these kinds of spaces: fast to enter, safe to use, and effortless to leave. It powers micro-tools, shared rooms, and playful experiments that do not require identity, accounts, or commitment.

We are here to make software feel lighter, kinder, and more human.

Platform capabilities

Ephemeral identity

JWT-based device identity designed for lightweight trust without heavyweight account systems.

Realtime primitives

Event transport and room sync patterns optimized for low friction, multiplayer interactions.

Graceful degradation

Core systems remain available even when optional infrastructure like Redis is unavailable.

Composable by design

Use core building blocks to ship products like portals, tools, and collaborative play spaces.

Built on Epheme

Real products shaped by the same core platform primitives.

LeaveAt

Scheduling and coordination flows delivered as a focused product surface.

Open LeaveAt

BafGo

The broader suite and portal experience that composes multiple collaborative tools.

Open BafGo

From core to experience

  1. Core provides identity, metrics, plugin host, and browser SDK primitives.
  2. Apps compose those primitives into domain tools and multiplayer flows.
  3. Infra deploys each surface cleanly with Helm and repeatable scripts.

We are still piecing together documentation and product details across the Epheme ecosystem. This site is actively evolving, so please keep checking back for regular updates.