Two years ago, we shipped small things. We're still at it.
cc.me: plumbing for people and programs
cc.me bundles small utilities we kept wishing existed:
- Email aliases: as many
@cc.meaddresses forwarding to your inbox as you want; set them to expire, delete them whenever. - HTTP: OAuth callback trampolines and sealed webhook inboxes. An inbox is just an Ed25519 public key in a URL; deliveries are encrypted for that key, so we couldn't read them if we wanted to. Claim/ack/release semantics, long polling, and small protocol adapters (WebSub, webmention, Slack, Discord, CloudEvents…) with clients for JS, Python, Go, Rust, and Ruby —
npx cc-me http://localhost:8080/webhookforwards straight to your dev server. - Secrets: encrypt a note in your browser, share the link, optionally burn it after reading.
- Library: a distributed semaphore — borrow numbered slots with auto-expiring leases.
As always: no tracking, and usage stats are public.
found.as, revamped
found.as started as "names anything": a path, a password, and a redirect, markdown, HTML, or file behind it. Those all still work, but most people wanted one thing — a page with all the ways to reach them.
So that's now the default: a contact page at found.as/you with your name, photo, bio, and links — phone, email, website, plus the apps you already use (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Matrix, Instagram, LinkedIn, Calendly, PayPal, and a couple dozen more). Reorder, rename, or hide anything; download a QR code for your business card.
The model hasn't changed since the original: no account, no cookies, no tracking. Your password derives a signing key in the browser (PBKDF2, salted per path), and that's the only thing that can update your page. There is no reset — your address and password are the whole story.
Both run on infrastructure hosted in the European Union, on renewable energy. Free, and we intend to keep them that way.