Introducing DY Nexus
An independent software project, what it is building, and the principles it intends to be held to.
DY Nexus is an independent software project. This is the first post, so it may as well be the one that says what that means and what it does not.
What it is
A small project building its own products, rather than an agency building other people's. The first is NexusPass, a password manager for Android, desktop and iOS that keeps the vault on your device.
There is no team page, because there is no team to put on it. There are no client logos, no case-study metrics and no launch numbers, because there are none of those things yet. When there are, they will appear here with the detail needed to check them.
What it is for
Two convictions, roughly.
Software should be usable by the person it was built for. Not the buyer, not the procurement committee, not the growth metric. Most of what makes a product tiring to use is a decision made in someone else's interest, and a project with no investors has no reason to make those decisions.
Privacy is a structural property, not a feature you add. You cannot bolt it on at the end, because by then the data model has already decided what gets collected and who can read it. Those choices are made in the first week, and they are extremely expensive to reverse.
What gets written here
This blog is not a marketing channel. It is where the engineering gets explained — the reasoning behind decisions, the trade-offs that were actually weighed, and the things that turned out to be wrong.
Four categories, roughly:
- Security — how the products handle data, and explainers on the concepts they depend on. The zero-knowledge post is the shape of these.
- Development — architecture and implementation notes, like the Kotlin Multiplatform write-up.
- Design — interface and interaction decisions, including right-to-left support.
- Announcements — releases and product updates.
Articles are written when there is something to say, not on a schedule.
The commitments
Worth writing down, since they are easier to hold to when they are public:
No invented numbers. No download counts, user totals, ratings or performance figures unless they are real and verifiable. An empty statistic is better than a fabricated one.
No invented security claims. No certifications, no audits, no guarantees that have not happened. Where a technical detail is not yet settled, this site says so rather than filling the gap with something plausible.
Working software over announcements. NexusPass is in development. It has not shipped. That is stated on every page describing it, and it stays stated until it is no longer true.
Where things stand
NexusPass is in active development, with no public release yet. This website is new. The projects section will grow as there is something to put in it.
If you want to reach me — about a bug, an idea, or a question about how something works — get in touch.