I've built a private contacts app that I can trust. It is open source, does not collect any data, and stores contacts in encrypted form, hidden from other apps.
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My mom's Telegram was hacked, and scammers exploited all her contacts. So I was shocked to realize, how many contacts I had all over the internet: on Telegram, across multiple forgotten Google accounts, in iCloud, and in any app with access to my contacts. Too many points of failure, and none of them are end-to-end encrypted. That means other people, companies, governments, and potentially hackers can see and use my data for their own purposes.
So I wanted a private and secure vault for my contacts. But it should be pretty, cross-platform, open-source, collect zero data, store contacts in encrypted form, and support all the features I need.
I wasn't fully happy with the few options that existed. So as a software developer, I decided to quickly build the perfect one as a side project over weekends. But after 7 months in, it naturally turned into a business. So that's what I do full-time now.
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My mom's Telegram was hacked, and scammers exploited all her contacts. So I was shocked to realize, how many contacts I had all over the internet: on Telegram, across multiple forgotten Google accounts, in iCloud, and in any app with access to my contacts. Too many points of failure, and none of them are end-to-end encrypted. That means other people, companies, governments, and potentially hackers can see and use my data for their own purposes.
So I wanted a private and secure vault for my contacts. But it should be pretty, cross-platform, open-source, collect zero data, store contacts in encrypted form, and support all the features I need.
I wasn't fully happy with the few options that existed. So as a software developer, I decided to quickly build the perfect one as a side project over weekends. But after 7 months in, it naturally turned into a business. So that's what I do full-time now.