About Us
Brace.to is a service to help people save links around the web. We provide simple, easy, and convenient ways to save links to interesting articles, websites, items on online shops, videos, music, and whatever comes across while scrolling. Users can save links on our website or at an address bar. Then, all saved links can be viewed and visited on any user's device at any time. Our goal is to provide our users the best experience. We're inspired by Pocket, Saved.io, Pinterest, and many more.
Privacy is at our heart. That's why we chose Stacks. Stacks provides tools and libraries for building a website/app that protects users' privacy. A decentralized account generated by a cryptographic algorithm cannot be locked, banned, or deleted by Brace.to or anyone. It provides a private key to encrypt everything. No one can see the content inside encrypted data; even Brace.to cannot see the links users save. Also, the account can access the Stacks blockchain, so users can set up their own server to store their links. Just save the server location on the blockchain; Brace.to will read the location and store data on the specified data server.
Brace.to is open-sourced and published at Github.com. It's built with many tools and libraries. The list is not exhaustive and continues to grow: React, Create React App, React Redux, Redux, Redux Thunk, Redux Loop, Redux Persist, Redux Offline, and React Native. Brace.to cannot go this far without these tools and libraries. Really appreciate.
We know that design is crucial. Our user interface needs to be slick, intuitive, and beautiful. We use Figma to design and TailwindCSS to style. Many icons and illustrations are from Heroicons, iconmonstr, unDraw.co, Loading.io, and Loaders.css. We learn a lot from Adam Wathan's YouTube channel and the RefactoringUI book from Steve Schoger. We'd like to thank all of them very much.
Brace.to is free, and we offer a paid subscription for a couple of dollars per month to use extra features. Our business model is to create a lean, useful piece of software that grows with our users and can sustain us from every angle. The way everything is set up allows us to do that. If no one uses our service, it costs us almost nothing to run. If we have a lot of users, costs will go up, and so will revenue.
We intend to keep all the current free features free forever and never show advertisements. We believe if our service is valuable, our users will support us. We wouldn't force it in any way. If users aren't ready, they can always close the popup and continue using our service.