About

Independent software, long-term thinking

SaaSquatch Lab is an independent software company in the Pacific Northwest, building tools for communities, travellers, job seekers, and people who lift heavy things, without a surveillance business model underneath.

Every product is self-funded, which is the whole reason we can build this way: no investors to answer to, no growth targets that only make sense with an advertising business model bolted on, and no pressure to monetise data we have deliberately chosen not to collect.

Four of our 11 live-or-in-review products collect nothing at all, because they have no servers to collect it to. That is a structural promise, not a policy one: there is no data to sell even if we wanted to. The rest collect only what the product cannot work without, and say so in plain language.

How we build

Principles,
not platitudes

Constraints we hold ourselves to when it costs us something, which is the only time a principle counts.

01
Private by default
No ad SDKs, no cross-app tracking, no data brokers. Four of our seven products collect nothing at all, because they have no servers to collect it to. That is a structural promise, not a policy one.
02
Easy on purpose
Privacy software has a reputation for being a chore. Ours is not. If a privacy guarantee costs you three extra taps, we treat that as a design bug and fix it.
03
Transparent by default
Pricing, data practices, and limitations written in plain language — including the parts that are inconvenient for us. If we cannot defend a decision to your face, we do not ship it.
04
No dark patterns
No manufactured urgency, no buried cancellation, no design that works against you. Cancelling is as easy as subscribing, because it happens in your own app store settings.
05
Built to last
Self-funded and answerable to the people using the software rather than to investors, which is the only reason we can afford to plan in years instead of quarters.
11
Products shipping or in review
4
Apps that collect zero data
0
Ad trackers, ever
PNW
Pacific Northwest built

Get in touch

Questions about a product, the company, or an idea for what we should build next? Email us, we read everything.

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