Indie software, made with care. No investors, no growth hacks — just tools built for people who care about quality.
In Unix, exit 0 means the program ran successfully. No errors, no exceptions — just clean execution. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
Exit Zero Labs was founded on a simple observation: most software is built to optimize metrics, not to serve people. Engagement hacking, dark patterns, data harvesting — these are symptoms of building for investors instead of users.
We wanted to build different. Software that does what it says, respects your privacy, and gets out of the way. The kind of tools you'd recommend to a friend without caveats.
“We did not raise a round. We do not have a growth team. We have a good idea, sharp tools, and zero patience for software that does not work.”
This isn't a pitch. It's how we operate. Every product decision starts with the same question: does this make the tool better for the person using it?
These aren't aspirational. They're the rules we build by every day.
Built right, iterated until excellent. We ship when it works — not when a deadline says so. Every pixel, every API response, every user flow gets the same attention.
Designed around humans, not funnels. Software should respect its users, not extract from them. No dark patterns, no engagement tricks, no selling attention.
Honest pricing, clear policies, plain language. If something breaks, we say so. If we change direction, we explain why. Trust is built on candor.
Bootstrapped by choice, accountable to users. No investors to please, no growth hacks to chase. We build what we believe in and answer to the people who use it.
Exit Zero Labs is a one-person company. That's intentional.
Founder & Developer
Full-stack developer building tools that respect the people who use them. Kinnections started as a personal frustration with relationship management tools that treated private data as a business model. Geo Spot came from a love of geography and a dislike of ad-supported games. Both are built with the same philosophy: your data is yours, the software should work, and nobody needs to see ads.
LinkedIn →Bootstrapping isn't a constraint — it's a feature. Without venture funding, there's no pressure to hyper-grow, no incentive to monetize attention, and no board meetings where someone asks about monthly active users.
The business model is simple: build something good enough that people pay for it. If the product doesn't earn its keep, we make it better. That alignment between revenue and quality is the whole point.
Ship clean. Build forward. Exit zero.