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Privacy
In plain words. Updated October 1, 2026.
What We Run is for showing the machines and systems you run, part by part, so other people can build the same thing. It's built to know as little about you as possible.
What we keep
A @username and a display nameYour @username is unique and sticks with you, so people can find you again. Your display name shows above it — real, made-up or your brand, up to 30 characters.
Your emailOnly to log you in. It's never shown in the app, to anyone.
What you postYour clips and photos (with sound), part names, where you got things, and your questions and answers.
Your phone's notification addressOnly if you turn notifications on. Turn them off, log out or delete your account and it's gone.
Your taps that need savingLikes, saves, bells, who you blocked, and reports. So those buttons keep working on any phone.
What we never keep
Your locationThe app never asks for it. Hidden GPS and phone details are wiped from every clip on your phone, before it's sent, even ones from your camera roll.
Your real nameThere's no place for it.
Your internet addressThe app doesn't log it. Supabase (logging in) and Vercel (serving the app) see it, like any website does, and keep it only in their short-lived records.
What you watchNo tracking, no ads, no selling data, no analytics. What you see first is never decided by money.
What other people can see
PublicYour username, your picture if you add one, how cold and snowy your winters get if you set it, what you post, your questions and answers, and the systems you recommend on your page. Watching doesn't need an account, so anyone can see these.
Only youYour email, what you saved, your bells, who you blocked, which answers you said helped (only the totals show), and the words you hold questions with. If you report a post or send a heads-up, nobody ever sees it was you.
Private messages (bounded)Questions are public, on the part they're about. Direct messages exist too, with limits: you must have exchanged public comments first, every message is checked for grooming patterns, platform-moving and personal-info asks, and anything flagged goes to a person to look at. No end-to-end encryption, on purpose, so moderation can read messages. Minor accounts are text-only. 1:1 only, no groups. Block and Report are in every thread.
Your microphone
Only used if you tap "Talk over it" on a clip, and only while that clip plays. Your voice goes into the clip on your phone, like everything else, before anything is sent. The app never listens otherwise.
What's in your clip is on you
Faces, license plates, house numbers, signs or a view can show who or where you are. Check your clip before you post it. If someone else's clip shows something personal, tap ⋯ and send them a private heads-up.
Notifications
Off unless you turn them on. You only get them for things about you: a question on your part, an answer to your question, being @tagged, someone showing a fix on your Down, someone building from your system or thanking you for help, someone answering a question you asked (or one on your part), someone asking to build with you, and news from bells you rang (a part going down or running, or a new system from someone you get updates from). Never "come back to the app" nagging. Each one is locked (encrypted) before it leaves, so Apple or Google deliver it but can't read it.
Store links
Most store links earn the app nothing. If a store ever pays the app a small cut, that link carries one code for the whole app and says so right under it. It costs you nothing extra. Once you're on the store's site, their own privacy rules apply. The app never learns who bought what.
Saved on your phone only
Unfinished posts and what you recently watched stay on your phone. They're never sent anywhere (posts only when you tap Post). Clear Recently watched in Settings.
Delete means deleted
Delete a post, a part, or your whole account anytime, in the app. It's gone right away from the app: videos, answers, everything. Backup copies at our database company run out on their own within days.
Who runs the app for us
SupabaseStores accounts and posts, and handles logging in.
CloudflareStores the videos and photos, and sends them to your phone. It also turns what's said in a clip into captions, and translates posts when you tap Translate, using computer (AI) models that run inside Cloudflare, so no other company hears or reads it. The app doesn't keep a record of who watched what.
VercelServes the app to your phone.
ResendSends your login email. Nothing else.
They only get what they need to do those jobs.
The rules
What's allowed and what isn't: read the rules.
Age
Anyone can watch, no account needed, and watching collects nothing. To make an account (to post, ask, like or save) you need to be 13 or older.
Questions
Email hello@whatwerun.com. A person reads it.
If this changes
We'll update this page and change the date at the top. We won't start collecting something new without saying so here first.