Bit of an odd intro: I’m a carpenter, 42 years at the bench. I’m the type who can’t stand making the same thing everyone else makes, so I’ve always chased the technical side too - CNC, laser cutting, and lately building software to run my machines.
At some point I wanted to send my own designs to people without them leaking anywhere, and I went down the rabbit hole of how messaging actually works. What got me was realising how much of the “free” stuff is paid for with our privacy. That annoyed me enough that I decided to build my own messenger, mostly to learn. It grew from something simple into a real thing. I called it Sherlock.
Two things I cared about: proper encryption, and NOT tying it to a phone number - I built a different system for that.
I’m not going to pretend I reinvented cryptography. I’m a woodworker who got obsessed. So I’d rather hear it straight from people who actually know this stuff:
- How much does the “no phone number” approach really buy you if I get the rest wrong?
- For a small independent project, what’s the bar before any of you would even consider trusting it - open source, audit, something else?
Genuinely here for the criticism, not the pats on the back.
Ayyyy yeah that’s what I’m talking about! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
That’s a really cool project dude, if it’s public I’d love a link to check it out! (I tried Googling, to no avail) I have a friend who has both a CNC machine and a laser cutter (a fuckoff-huge thing the size of a desk, that can cut metal), so your work on that might be helpful to us 😊
In any case, good luck and I hope those resources help. Drop me a DM if you want to talk shop!
Sounds like a plan - when Nexus Studio is ready I want to put it on Kickstarter too, and yeah, I’ll absolutely want people on forums like this to kick the tyres and tell me honestly whether it’s worth anything. That kind of feedback is the whole point.
On your friend’s machine: I can’t cut metal on mine - they’re optical lasers, so metal’s out for me - but the real question is what controller his laser runs. Nexus Studio is built on GRBL, so if his machine is GRBL-based (or I can find out what firmware/controller it uses), I’ll do my best to wire it up so he can actually test whether it works on his setup. That would genuinely interest me too - testing it on hardware that isn’t mine is exactly what I need.
So don’t worry, I’ll reach out. Thanks for the message.
And if it’s not too much of a privacy thing to ask - whereabouts did I reach? US, Australia, somewhere else? Just curious how far my message travelled. I’m in Germany myself (though originally from elsewhere - bit of a hybrid, you can laugh 😄).
(English isn’t my first language - AI helps me translate.)