Velmun comes from three places: physics, data protection and software engineering. Each one left a rule.
taught us where computation belongs. The phone in your pocket has more processing power than the server room that first sold you the cloud. Sending your data across the world to be computed and sent back is not a technical necessity — it is a business model. We skip it.
taught us what the law actually asks of anyone who holds personal data — and that the cleanest way to meet it is not to hold the data at all.
taught us how to build that: apps that are complete on their own, encryption that happens before anything leaves the device, sync that works without knowing who you are.
The app must work with the network off. Sync is an addition, never a requirement. There is no feature that only exists on a server.
We measure before we claim. Where a prediction is uncertain, the app shows the uncertainty instead of hiding it behind a precise-looking number. We test the clever methods and ship the one that actually wins — even when it's the simple one.
No analytics SDK, no crash reporter that uploads, no ad library. If a dependency wants the network, it has to justify itself — or it doesn't ship.
One job per app, done well. We don't add a feature because a competitor has it. We say no to community forums, coaching marketplaces and anything that would make us a data business.
We take methods from fields that have solved difficult prediction problems — weather forecasting, signal processing — and put them to work in everyday apps. Quietly, on your device. A forecast with an honest window beats a guess dressed up as a fact; that idea is older than any app store, and it runs fine on a phone.
There are two kinds of subscription. One pays for a running service — a relay, electricity, someone maintaining it. The other holds your own data behind a gate and charges rent for the key. Ours is the first kind. Cancel, and the app keeps running with everything in it. You lose a service, not your records.
We don't claim our apps do more than the big ones. They do less. In return they run on your device, and what they transmit is sealed before we see it.
Because we can.