Nearly – Family Location Sharing Without the Data Harvesting

The server : a dedicated root server I rent and operate exclusively - no shared cloud platform, no other tenants, no platform-level access to the data. Not zero-knowledge : I can query the database for the app’s functionality to work, but as I said earlier, I have no reason to and no business model that would ever create one. A breach : I can’t promise it’s impossible, nobody honestly can. Selling data : there’s no ad business, no analytics pipeline, and no intention to ever build one. Nearly is a solo indie project with no investors and no company to buy out, I will never sell it, never run ads and never share data with third parties. Period. On a subpoena - if one were legally enforceable in my jurisdiction, I’d have the technical capability to comply, the data exists on the server. I won’t claim otherwise. What I can say is there’s no proactive data sharing with any authority, and I’d exhaust every legal option before complying with anything questionable. The subscription in Nearly exists purely to cover infrastructure costs for users who want more devices, more history, faster updates. That means hitting the server more. It’s not a data play, it’s a usage model. For context - the apps most people already use for this have millions of users, run ads + charge subscriptions and on top of that sell the location data to third parties. People use them anyway. I’m not asking for blind trust, but the bar isn’t that high.