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EVC Team Relay

Self-hosted real-time collaboration and web publishing for Obsidian.

Edit together. Publish to the web. Keep your data on your server.

The Problem

Obsidian is great for personal notes. But when your team needs to collaborate:

Obsidian Sync has no real-time collab and costs $8/user/month
Notion/Confluence means leaving Obsidian and losing your workflow
Git-based sync means merge conflicts on every concurrent edit
Obsidian Publish is $8/month with limited customization and no access control

You want your team in Obsidian, editing together, publishing docs — without giving up data control.

The Solution

EVC Team Relay is self-hosted infrastructure that adds real-time collaboration and web publishing to Obsidian. CRDT-based, local-first, fully under your control.

Features

Real-time Collaboration

Live editing — CRDT-based sync via y-sweet (Yjs), no merge conflicts
Offline-first — edit without connection, sync seamlessly when back online
Folder sharing — share entire folders with viewer/editor permissions

Web Publishing

Publish notes to the web — internal wiki, client portal, or public docs
Access control — public, protected (link + token), or private (authenticated)
Custom domains — docs.yourdomain.com
Live preview — see your published site at https://docs.entire.vc/team-relay/Demo/ (example)

Enterprise Ready

Authentication — OAuth/OIDC, email/password, 2FA
Audit logs — who did what and when
Webhooks — integrate with your automation
Monitoring — Prometheus metrics + Grafana dashboards
Docker Compose — one command to deploy

Quick Start

Bash

git clone https://github.com/entire-vc/evc-team-relay.git
cd evc-team-relay/infra
cp env.example .env
# Edit .env with your settings
docker compose up -d

Services:

Control Plane API: https://cp.yourdomain.com
Relay Server: wss://relay.yourdomain.com
Web Publish: https://docs.yourdomain.com
Grafana: http://localhost:3001

Then install the Obsidian plugin and connect.

Comparison

	Obsidian Sync	Notion	Confluence	Git sync	Team Relay
Real-time collab	✗	✅	✅	✗	✅
Works in Obsidian	✅	✗	✗	✅	✅
Web publish	$8 / m o ∣ ✅ ∣ ✅ ∣ m a n u a l ∣ ✅ ∣ ∣ S e l f - h o s t e d ∣ ✗ ∣ ✗ ∣ ✅ ($ $)	✅	✅
Offline-first	✅	✗	✗	✅	✅
Data sovereignty	✗	✗	partial	✅	✅
Pricing	$8/user/mo	$8/user/mo	$6/user/mo	free	free (self-hosted)

Don't Want to Self-Host?

→ Hosted Team Relay — zero ops, all features, flat pricing.

Want Solo Sync Without a Server?

→ EVC Local Sync — bidirectional vault ↔ local folder sync, no server needed.

Part of the Entire VC Toolbox

Product	What it does	Link
Local Sync	vault ↔ local folders, solo	repo
Team Relay (you are here)	team collaboration + web publish (server)	this repo
Team Relay Plugin	Obsidian plugin for Team Relay	repo