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Blured is generally available: privacy-first social, rewritten
After 18 months of closed beta, 12,000 users and a full rewrite of the privacy model, Blured launches to the public — end-to-end encrypted, capability-based access control, no ads.
Blured started as a private-by-default social graph — an answer to the extractive defaults of the mainstream networks. It graduates out of closed beta today. The app has not changed its mind about the product it wants to be. It has changed its mind about how to get there.
What changed between beta and GA
Three rewrites. The privacy model moved from app-level ACLs to a formally-verified capability system — the kind of thing where an engineer can prove, not argue, who can see what. Sync became end-to-end encrypted by default. And the moderation pipeline is now a hybrid of on-device classifiers and a small community-run review panel.
What the beta taught us about privacy defaults
Users did not want another "be careful what you post" lecture. They wanted a default where the boring thing was the safe thing. Most of our wins came from making private the cheapest action and public the deliberate one — the opposite of how mainstream networks are tuned.
“Default matters more than setting. If a user has to think about privacy, the product has already lost.”
Pricing and roadmap
Free for personal use, $4/mo for the pro tier with team spaces, custom domains and bring-your-own-storage. No ads, no SDK, no data export to third parties. Ever.
More builds from the shelf.
Same team, different problems. Recent cases in adjacent industries — each shipped with the senior people who own outcomes.
Notes from people who shipped.
Real reviews from founders, CTOs and PMs we shipped alongside. Not curated soundbites — actual sentences from launch retros.
· Parsewise®
They rebuilt our entire platform in 4 months. Performance improved 3×, and the codebase is finally something our team can maintain on their own.
· Wishboard®
From zero to 50k users in 6 months. The team handled everything — design, development, and launch marketing. We just focused on the product.
· RLC®
We needed 5 senior engineers fast. They embedded with our team, matched our coding standards, and shipped features alongside our full-timers.
· Blured®
The AI agent they built handles 70% of our support tickets. Response time dropped from hours to seconds.
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First working sprint goes live in 14 days — real demo on a staging URL you can hand to customers.