Three years solo: a journal that reads what you write. Launching Aug 18

Hi everyone. I'm Nelson, a solo developer in Portugal, and next Tuesday I launch the thing I have been building on nights and weekends for three years.

Auramenta is a private journal for iOS. You write, and an engine on your phone reads your entries back: the phrases that keep returning, the patterns that build over weeks. Tendencies, never verdicts.

I built the reading engine the slow way. No LLM, no AI service. Thousands of hand-written phrase rules per language, in eight languages, each with its own engine. That is also why the privacy story is short: no accounts, no tracking, no server of my own. What you write is encrypted on your phone, and the optional iCloud backup is encrypted before it leaves.

It goes live on Tuesday, August 18. If you want the launch notification, tap Follow on this page. I will answer anything in the meantime, including the skeptical questions. Those are the useful ones.

One question back, for the makers here:

If you have launched something you built alone, what did the first day teach you?