Veravo

I recently launched Veravo as a compliance-monitoring tool for indie developers.

The idea looked reasonable on paper. I researched the market, found problems, studied competitors, and built something that I thought developers needed.

But I eventually realized that I was repeating the same mistake I had made with several previous products:

I was building for someone I was pretending to understand.

I kept finding problems through web research and then trying to become the target user. I would tell myself, “I can imagine having this problem,” even when I had never genuinely experienced it.

Unsurprisingly, those products did not work.

Then I came across a comment on Reddit with a simple message: build something for yourself, then see whether it helps others.

I had heard that advice before, but I had never truly followed it.

So I decided to pivot Veravo.

I often struggle to make decisions that feel clear and honest. I may make an important commitment, but weeks later I forget exactly why I made it, what facts I considered, or whether I am still following it.

That is the problem I am now building Veravo to solve.

Veravo helps you:

• think through an important decision;

• record the facts, pressures, assumptions, and trade-offs behind it;

• preserve what you actually decided at that moment;

• set a future review date;

• revisit the decision without silently rewriting your original reasoning.

There is deliberately no AI reading or interpreting your private entries. I do not want an AI telling users what they should do with their lives.

Decision records are end-to-end encrypted, so even I cannot read what users store in their vaults.

I still do not know whether people will pay for software like this.

Why would someone pay for a product that records decisions, preserves their reasoning, schedules reviews, sends reminders, and keeps everything private?

That is what I now need to discover.

But this is the first product I have built that I personally need. Even if it never becomes a large business, I believe it can help me make better decisions and remain honest about the commitments I make.

Veravo has a generous free tier, and I would really value feedback from people who struggle with second-guessing, forgotten commitments, or unclear decisions.

You can try it at veravo.tech.

This is not only a product pivot for me. It is also a change in how I want to build products: experience the problem first, build something useful for myself, and earn the right to believe it may help somebody else.

Hey everyone!

I'm a 17-year-old CS student and have been spending the last few weeks researching problems indie app developers face.

One issue kept appearing across Reddit, developer forums, and blog posts: keeping up with constantly changing App Store and Google Play policies is harder than it should be.

So I decided to build Veravo, a tool that tracks the policies that actually apply to your app and explains them in plain English, so you don't have to monitor every policy update yourself.

I'm still early in the journey, and I'd love honest feedback from developers who have shipped apps.

What's been your biggest frustration with App Store or Google Play compliance? Is there something you wish existed to make it easier?

Looking forward to learning from your experiences!