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by rmoon 1687 days ago
Hello HN, hello showHNers,

You know when an idea is in your head pushing, even annoying sometimes?, when after years it is still there and still pushing?, this is Zoldy, my creation, about 25 years pushing till get real. Zoldy is a service (app) whose objective is to provide capabilities to protect any confidential information and its holders, especially if they are in a situation of risk, threat or danger due to the possession of that information.

I came to this idea when I needed this service back in 1995, at that time there were no smartphones nor internet,.., only floppies. At that time the only thing you could do holding confidential information were copies from those floppies and give them to friends with instructions. I lived one of those situations and did not want my friends to be involved. From that time I have spent lots of time developing the concept. By 2010 technology was almost there to have Zoldy working but prices to develop it were too high, at last, in 2021 the idea became real.

The app is free to download to have the tool ready to use, when you need it up and running you pay for time of service, 30 days, 7 or 1 day and set your Zoldy up, upload your confidential files, set emails (5 max.) and messages, attach those files to any email. If something should happen to you or you are under a direct threat the app can help you to take control giving you options of negotiating with the information you hold and/or delivering the files to your pre-set email recipients along with their messages, even if you become unresponsive.

No registration is required, the service does not work with username and password. You get time of service and the app starts it automatically, not even email or number. Privacy from the first step.

Negotiator mode, you have uploaded your confidential files, you have set up emails and messages and if you are under a direct threat this screen gives you options to negotiate with the information you hold, if you touch this screen your Zoldy runs your settings, sending messages and links to files for downloading to the recipients you have defined. This is for real danger situations where the threat is direct and it is important what is going to happen with that information, it gives you options to negotiate at the same time that it ensures the sending of emails if necessary.

In real house alarms there is a secret password so that if you are under a direct threat and you turn your alarm off with this password, the alarm goes off but in the central controlling your alarm know you are in troubles because you used this password and call the police, In the app there is a panic pass simulating this. If you use it Zoldy runs your setting in the background - sending emails, messages and files -. There is also a Notification Service: if you activate it and you do not reply to 3 consecutive notifications your Zoldy reacts by sending messages and links to files to the recipients you defined. So even unresponsive you can count on the service to deliver them, the same happens if you uninstall the app with the Notifications Service activated, preventing this way attempts to stop the service through uninstallation.

No humans behind, the service is completely autonomous, no admin tool or anything like that. I had to put a "Single Clause" about it in the legal Terms and Conditions of the service.

Files, emails, messages are automatically deleted once the service has finished. Track is not possible more than the invoice from the official Stores that says Zoldy Services. Yes, everything is encrypted.

No cookies, no ads, no tracking tools, I wrote myself the website line by line, with the help of Bulma (https://github.com/jgthms/bulma -CSS only framework-). I really enjoy writing from scratch, I have some control and site flies from my end point. Server in Europe.

I will be happy answering any question or comment you may have. All the best.

P.S.1 - If you are curious about data have a look to https://www.zoldyapp.com/legal-info#privacy, there it is described publicly how the information you send through Zoldy is processed, used and deleted.

P.S.2 - One man and his idea, no corporation, no agency, the one showHNing.