[2] Singly was founded by Jeremie Miller, creator of XMPP, Jason Cavnar and Simon Murtha-Smith in 2010 in San Francisco.
[6] It was intended that users would be able to control which parts of their locker they share with their social network and companies they interact with.
Developers could write connectors to pipe data in from a website such as Flickr, or a local application such as a web browser.
The Locker development team started writing code to use the TeleHash protocol (initially created by Miller) to distribute data directly between contacts in a peer-to-peer manner, without the need for centralized servers.
By the end of 2012, the company shifted its focus to a mobile device application integration service, with a test period announced in December.