Faithful to you.
Not to data.
f8ful is a one-person organization that builds software respecting you by default, not by policy, but by architecture. No accounts. No databases. No tracking. Your cloud is your account. Your device is the server. Your data is yours.
The Manifesto
We believe software should be built for the person using it, not the company building it.
Your data is yours. Completely.
We don't want your data. We don't store your data. We don't analyze your data. Every product we build keeps your information on your device, in your cloud, under your control. There is no f8ful database. There never will be. When you use our software, your files live in your Google Drive, your iCloud, your own infrastructure. We literally cannot see them even if we wanted to, and we don't want to.
Privacy by architecture, not by policy.
Privacy policies are promises, and promises get broken. Architecture is reality. We build privacy into the structure of our software: authentication happens on your device, files are read and written directly between your browser and your cloud provider, and our servers only serve static code. There is no backend collecting anything. No telemetry. No analytics that identify you. No "we improved our privacy" announcements, because it was private from line one.
No account. No email. No password.
Accounts are leashes. They tie you to a platform, lock in your data, and give companies a handle to hold over you. In f8ful products, your cloud provider is your account. Sign in with Google Drive, and that's it. You're in. No sign-up form. No email verification. No password to forget. No "we noticed unusual activity on your account." You are not a user in our database. You are a person with your own tools.
Open source. Always.
Trust but verify, but why trust when you can verify? Every product we build is open source. You can read every line, audit every API call, and verify that our claims about privacy aren't just marketing. If we ever did something shady, the code would tell on us. That's the point. Open source isn't a feature we bolt on, it's the foundation we build on. If you can't see the code, you can't trust the claim.
One person, full accountability.
f8ful is one person. No board of directors demanding monetization. No growth team optimizing engagement metrics. No legal department writing fine print. Every decision, every line of code, every design choice goes through one mind, and that mind is committed to building software that treats you like a person, not a data point. When something goes wrong, there's one person to hold accountable. No buck-passing. No "we're looking into it." Just direct, honest responses.
Products
Software built on principles. Each one a proof that privacy-first doesn't mean feature-last.
An outliner-first notetaking app with bidirectional links, daily journals, and whiteboards. Everything is stored in your own cloud. We never see your notes, your tokens, or your data. Authentication happens on-device between your browser and Google. The server only serves static files. No account needed. Your cloud is your account.
More products coming. Each one faithful to the same principles.
What we don't do
Sometimes the most important thing about a tool is what it refuses to be.
Why f8ful?
f8ful is faithful, faithful to the user, not to shareholders, not to metrics, not to growth. The "f8" is a stylization, but it also carries a second meaning: in music, f means loud, ff means very loud, and fff means as loud as possible. We want to be as faithful as possible.