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General

What is Software Seva?

Software Seva is the practice of crafting technology as a humble act of service. It prioritizes the user's dignity, absolute focus, and local ownership over corporate platform capture, high latency, or constant attention-grabbing notifications.

Philosophy

Why 'seva'?

Seva represents selfless service. In technology, this means creating tools that respect your time, keep your data local, work quietly in the background, and never trick you into spending more time on the app than your work requires.

Privacy

How is my privacy protected?

By structural architecture. We keep data local to your device whenever possible. We never employ advertising trackers, tracking cookies, analytics telemetry, or sell your data. Our backend logs are regularly cleared and minimal by design.

Tech Stack

What technologies are used to build these pages?

We build with simple, long-lasting technologies: vanilla HTML/CSS and minimal JavaScript. The site is generated as fast static assets served on Cloudflare Edge nodes, using lightweight Hono workers only where dynamic D1 capabilities are required.

Anubandha

What is the relationship between Software Seva and Anubandha?

Anubandha is the cornerstone project of Software Seva. It is an offline-capable volunteer coordination system built to serve rural and decentralized community projects, translating the software seva philosophy into actionable utility.

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