Our Blog

Ideas, experiments, and lessons learned as we build better tech alternatives.

The things we've built

A roundup of the Vzla.io product family — Quantis, Dress Docs, World Cup 2026, Balance, Cripto Alerta, and Dora — and the thread that connects them.

Jul 15, 2026

Company

Building tools for the realities of Venezuela

Why several Vzla.io products — Quantis and others — are built specifically for how money, connectivity, and daily life actually work in Venezuela.

Jul 8, 2026

Engineering

One backend, many products

How Vzla.io ships a family of products from reusable packages and a single shared backend — the same experience on web and mobile.

Jun 30, 2026

Digital privacy

Privacy is the default, not a setting

Why Vzla.io runs cookieless, self-hosted Umami analytics, complies with the GDPR by choice, and never sells your data.

Jun 18, 2026

Entrepreneurship

Malleable software is the next product category

Tech is degrading in ways that no longer have a way back. But that's not just bad news — it's a market opening. And malleable software is the bet of the builders who are going to fill it.

May 4, 2026

Entrepreneurship

Software that adapts to you, not the other way around

You were always the one who adapted to the software. An idea called "malleable software" has spent decades trying to change that — and LLMs just gave it its best shot.

May 3, 2026

Digital privacy

The end of privacy in Sweden? The government demands backdoors in Signal and WhatsApp

The Swedish Parliament will debate a law that would force Signal and WhatsApp to introduce backdoors so the police can access messages. Signal threatens to leave the country and Sweden's own Armed Forces warn of the risks. We analyze the implications for global privacy.

Jul 15, 2025

Video games

Stop Killing Games: the battle to preserve the games we buy

The citizens' initiative Stop Killing Games seeks to keep video games accessible after their commercial shutdown. A proposal that could set legal precedent in Europe.

Jul 12, 2025

Digital privacy

OpenAI must keep ChatGPT conversations forever: what this means for your privacy

A federal court ordered OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT conversations indefinitely, including deleted ones. What it means for your privacy and what you can do.

Jul 9, 2025