Connect Gmail, Calendar, and (on Mac) iMessage. 60 seconds later your last 6 months of real social life is laid out. Slipping relationships surface weekly.
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Hey everyone 👋
I built Vellaci because I kept doing the same embarrassing thing — blanking
on a friend's partner's name, forgetting a colleague's kid had just
started school, realizing I hadn't spoken to someone I genuinely care about
in eight months.
I'd tried every personal CRM. Notion templates, Dex, Monica. They all died
the same way: by week 3 I'd stopped logging anything, by week 6 I'd quit.
Every one of them asks you to do data entry about your friends. Nobody
sustains that. The Notion-as-CRM graveyard is full of week-6 quitters — I
was one of them.
So I started from the opposite end: what if it required zero typing?
Vellaci reads your last 6 months of Gmail, Calendar, and (on Mac) iMessage
and just shows you who you actually talk to — and who's quietly slipping
away. No import, no setup. ~60 seconds from connect to a full timeline.
The biggest shift while building was trust. Early versions stored too much.
I rebuilt it so email bodies are never persisted — only metadata — and
iMessage is parsed locally; message content never leaves your laptop. Once
that was true, every other decision got easier.
The Friday digest ("5 friends slipping into dormant — say hi?") plus
AI-drafted openers became the loop that finally made it stick — for me
first.
I'd genuinely love your feedback. One question for you: what made your
personal CRM die? 🙏
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this seems good to get a grip on things you miss over time, but my only concern is privacy are you moving out all the information out of the user device ?
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@harshalvc_ai No, of course not. We’re not pulling all information out of the user’s device. Privacy is a core constraint for us. The system only processes what is strictly needed for the feature to work, and we avoid sending or storing unnecessary personal data. The intent is to help users notice what they may be missing over time, not to extract their private information. :)
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I think you might be the first to actually read Apple Messages. Big kudos for that!
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@scottwyden Thank you, really appreciate it. We’re trying to do it properly: actually understand Apple Messages, not just scrape around the edges. And privacy is a big part of that — we’re not trying to pull everything off the device, only process what’s needed to make the feature useful.
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this seems good to get a grip on things you miss over time, but my only concern is privacy are you moving out all the information out of the user device ?
@harshalvc_ai No, of course not. We’re not pulling all information out of the user’s device. Privacy is a core constraint for us. The system only processes what is strictly needed for the feature to work, and we avoid sending or storing unnecessary personal data. The intent is to help users notice what they may be missing over time, not to extract their private information. :)
I think you might be the first to actually read Apple Messages. Big kudos for that!
@scottwyden Thank you, really appreciate it. We’re trying to do it properly: actually understand Apple Messages, not just scrape around the edges. And privacy is a big part of that — we’re not trying to pull everything off the device, only process what’s needed to make the feature useful.