Your data, your call

Your phone quietly saves the exact spot each photo was taken. Joinue strips that out before a photo is ever stored, so your home or the party's address never lands on a server, and can't be handed to anyone later. It's always on, nothing to toggle. It's the same leak a well-known competitor got caught shipping, and Joinue closes it on every upload.

Privacy that only lives in app code is one bug away from a leak. So on Joinue, who can see your profile is decided in the database itself, and even a request that bypasses the app returns only what you've actually shared. People see your details because you're connected, or share a space, event, or trip, not because they guessed a link.

Export everything you've put into Joinue whenever you want, and delete your account yourself from Settings. No dark patterns, no emailing anyone to beg. When you go, your private data goes with you. The shared things you leave behind (a message in a group, an event you hosted) just show as from a deleted user, so other people's memories don't break.

Before Joinue, I spent years selling social media analytics, tools that mine public posts so brands can read what people want. Some of it is genuinely useful. But the model under most free platforms is cruder: profile people, sell their attention to advertisers, and let the product itself get worse.

I didn't want to build another one of those. Joinue can find useful patterns in aggregate, but it never turns you into the thing it sells.

Joinue is independent and bootstrapped. No investors, no exit to chase, and no plans to sell your personal data, ever. Right now it barely makes money, and what keeps it running is support from the people who use it.

Here's the honest part: for something like this to last, it has to pay for itself eventually. I'm not burning investor money to look free. So one day I may need to earn a little, and I already have a few ideas, none of them involving selling you: ticketing, tools for organizers and venues, maybe aggregate demand insight, where a venue could see that interest in live comedy is up in their city, drawn from patterns across many people and tied to none of them.

None of that is a done deal, just possibilities for if and when they're needed. And even the aggregate ideas would only ever help venues put on things people want. I won't sell them to political campaigns or organizations, and I won't turn them into a way to profile or target anyone.

And if you hate any of it, tell me. Feedback genuinely matters here, and if enough people push back, I'll chart a different course.