Vibecode Optery
track this build5 steps, step by step0%A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Optery, record discovered public-profile pages and guide the user through legitimate opt-outs. The hard boundary is proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring, plus security assurance, infrastructure, and trust.
You are building a lean indie version of Optery. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Optery indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Optery workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring - independent security audits - global relay infrastructure - breach monitoring data - account recovery and support If those capabilities are essential, use Vaultwarden instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Optery in an empty repository. Use Rust, Tauri 2, React, SQLite, Argon2id, and audited cryptographic libraries; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Write a plain-language threat model before implementing any sensitive feature. Keep all vault data encrypted with a master key derived through Argon2id and a unique salt. Use authenticated encryption from a maintained library and never invent cryptographic primitives. Implement lock timeout, clipboard clearing, password generation, import, export, and encrypted backups. Make recovery-key creation explicit and test restore from a fresh installation. Display a persistent warning that the build has not received an independent security audit. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a production VPN or anonymity network. Deliberately leave out identity-protection monitoring and data-broker removal. Deliberately leave out enterprise security guarantees, audits, and emergency support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - desktop OS - secure backup location - modern cryptographic libraries - careful review before real-world use ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Optery. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Optery indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Optery workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring - independent security audits - global relay infrastructure - breach monitoring data - account recovery and support If those capabilities are essential, use Vaultwarden instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Optery in an empty repository. Use Rust, Tauri 2, React, SQLite, Argon2id, and audited cryptographic libraries; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Write a plain-language threat model before implementing any sensitive feature. Keep all vault data encrypted with a master key derived through Argon2id and a unique salt. Use authenticated encryption from a maintained library and never invent cryptographic primitives. Implement lock timeout, clipboard clearing, password generation, import, export, and encrypted backups. Make recovery-key creation explicit and test restore from a fresh installation. Display a persistent warning that the build has not received an independent security audit. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a production VPN or anonymity network. Deliberately leave out identity-protection monitoring and data-broker removal. Deliberately leave out enterprise security guarantees, audits, and emergency support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - desktop OS - secure backup location - modern cryptographic libraries - careful review before real-world use ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Optery. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Optery product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Optery, record discovered public-profile pages and guide the user through legitimate opt-outs. The hard boundary is proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring, plus security assurance, infrastructure, and trust. ## Product outcome Record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - desktop OS - secure backup location - modern cryptographic libraries - careful review before real-world use ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring - independent security audits - global relay infrastructure - breach monitoring data - account recovery and support ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Optery in an empty repository. Use Rust, Tauri 2, React, SQLite, Argon2id, and audited cryptographic libraries; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Write a plain-language threat model before implementing any sensitive feature. Keep all vault data encrypted with a master key derived through Argon2id and a unique salt. Use authenticated encryption from a maintained library and never invent cryptographic primitives. Implement lock timeout, clipboard clearing, password generation, import, export, and encrypted backups. Make recovery-key creation explicit and test restore from a fresh installation. Display a persistent warning that the build has not received an independent security audit. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a production VPN or anonymity network. Deliberately leave out identity-protection monitoring and data-broker removal. Deliberately leave out enterprise security guarantees, audits, and emergency support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Optery capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Optery indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Optery workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring - independent security audits - global relay infrastructure - breach monitoring data - account recovery and support If those capabilities are essential, use Vaultwarden instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Optery in an empty repository. Use Rust, Tauri 2, React, SQLite, Argon2id, and audited cryptographic libraries; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Write a plain-language threat model before implementing any sensitive feature. Keep all vault data encrypted with a master key derived through Argon2id and a unique salt. Use authenticated encryption from a maintained library and never invent cryptographic primitives. Implement lock timeout, clipboard clearing, password generation, import, export, and encrypted backups. Make recovery-key creation explicit and test restore from a fresh installation. Display a persistent warning that the build has not received an independent security audit. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a production VPN or anonymity network. Deliberately leave out identity-protection monitoring and data-broker removal. Deliberately leave out enterprise security guarantees, audits, and emergency support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - desktop OS - secure backup location - modern cryptographic libraries - careful review before real-world use ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Optery product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Optery, record discovered public-profile pages and guide the user through legitimate opt-outs. The hard boundary is proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring, plus security assurance, infrastructure, and trust. ## Product outcome Record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - desktop OS - secure backup location - modern cryptographic libraries - careful review before real-world use ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring - independent security audits - global relay infrastructure - breach monitoring data - account recovery and support ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Optery in an empty repository. Use Rust, Tauri 2, React, SQLite, Argon2id, and audited cryptographic libraries; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: record discovered public-profile pages, guide the user through legitimate opt-outs, store tracking data locally with strong encryption, and make no claim of replacing an audited removal service. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Write a plain-language threat model before implementing any sensitive feature. Keep all vault data encrypted with a master key derived through Argon2id and a unique salt. Use authenticated encryption from a maintained library and never invent cryptographic primitives. Implement lock timeout, clipboard clearing, password generation, import, export, and encrypted backups. Make recovery-key creation explicit and test restore from a fresh installation. Display a persistent warning that the build has not received an independent security audit. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a production VPN or anonymity network. Deliberately leave out identity-protection monitoring and data-broker removal. Deliberately leave out enterprise security guarantees, audits, and emergency support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Optery capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Optery because security products are paid for because expert review, infrastructure, and accountability matter more than recreating screens. The recurring cost buys cryptography, secure updates, key recovery, threat intelligence, relay capacity, abuse response, audits, and incident handling, not just the visible interface.
xproprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring
xindependent security audits
xglobal relay infrastructure
xbreach monitoring data
xaccount recovery and support
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Optery pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| basic | $0/user | $0/user | Exposure report and screenshots; self-service opt-out tools; report refresh roughly quarterly after recent login |
| core | $3.99/user | $3.25/user | Automated removals from 150+ sites, or 380+ with Expanded Reach; 1 name and 1 city/state variant; monthly scans |
| extended | $14.99/user | $12.42/user | Automated removals from 325+ sites, or 555+ with Expanded Reach; unlimited name/address variants; human-agent support |
| ultimate | $24.99/user | $20.70/user | Automated removals from 405+ sites, or 635+ with Expanded Reach; unlimited custom removals for 950+ eligible sites after 30 days |
free tierExposure report/screenshots and self-service opt-out instructions; no automated removals
billingmonthly + annual; no free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee
hidden costsCore/Extended/Ultimate coverage differs materially by site count; family groups receive 20% off for 2 paid members, 25% for 3 and 30% for 4+, while upgrades are prorated and use the same billing term
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Vibecode Optery
Not really. Optery's value is not the code: Recheck price before merge. See the honest breakdown above.
How much does Optery cost?
Optery costs about $14.99/month (Extended, checked 2026-07-31), which is $179.88 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Optery?
Honestly: proprietary scanning coverage, screenshots, automated removals, human review, and monitoring; independent security audits; global relay infrastructure; breach monitoring data; account recovery and support. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Optery?
Yes: California DROP (California residents get one government request to 600-plus brokers; everyone else gets a geography lesson.) Optery Free Basic (Finds the profiles and hands you the opt-out links; your unpaid labor is the business model.) Permission Slip by DeleteMe (A phone app that sends individual privacy requests and tracks them; bulk broker removal is the paid part.) All 3 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/optery/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.