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1NKYNo accounts. No emails. No logs.

An anonymous platform for writers. Your tag lives in your pocket, not on our servers.

How it works
Using it
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There is no signup

No email. No phone. No password. No "continue with Google." You pick a tag and you're in — usually under a minute.

Your tag is yours

It's made on your device and stored on your device. We never hold it, can't reset it, and can't hand it to anyone.

Nothing to hand over

The web server writes no request logs and the database has no field for an IP address. We cannot produce what we never collected.

The whole thing runs over Tor

An onion address serves the full app — posting, pictures, messages, all of it — straight to our box with nothing in between.

The short version ​

1NKY is a place to post flicks, run boards and talk shit without leaving a paper trail that ends with a detective at your door.

Every other platform that writers use was built around a profile: an email, a phone number, a follower graph, a login history, an ad ID. That profile is the product, and it is subpoenable. Writers get identified off their own Instagram accounts routinely — the follower graph, the caption, the face in the background of a flick. That's not paranoia, that's case law and press releases.

So 1NKY doesn't have profiles in that sense. It has tags, and a tag is not an account on our system. It's a secret that gets made on your phone or laptop, stays there, and is used to put your name on your posts in a way that anyone can verify and nobody can forge.

What's actually in it ​

All of this is live right now, not planned:

  • Flicks and clips — photos and 60-second videos, with the camera's location and identifying details destroyed on your device before upload, plus an optional on-device face blur. How posting works.
  • The wall, Explore and Search — everything newest-first, filtered by city, type and surface, or searched across walls, posts and threads.
  • Boards, beef and happenings — city boards, threads, arguments on a clock that the wall throws away itself, and jams with a date on them. Boards.
  • Crews — a shared tag, a crew page, a roster, and a switcher in the top bar for posting as one. Crews.
  • Shout-outs and word — @ a writer publicly, or send a message nobody but the two of you can read. Talking.
  • Moderation that works without identity — flag it, ignore a writer, buff your own stuff, and put a writer on. Moderation.
  • A Tor onion mirror of the whole app. The onion mirror.

What that buys you ​

Nothing to log in to. There is no password to phish, no email to link back to you, no "forgot password" flow that leaks your identity to a mail provider.

Nothing to leak. We don't run request logs, and the database schema has no column for an IP address — not a nulled-out one, not a hashed one, none. See No logs, by architecture, which tells you exactly where to look in the code to confirm it.

Nothing in your photos. Camera metadata — GPS coordinates, timestamps, the serial number of your phone — is destroyed on your device before a single byte is uploaded. We never receive it, so we can never lose it. See Opsec for writers for how to verify that with exiftool.

Nothing that dies with us. Your tag and your posts are cryptographically yours. If 1NKY gets raided, sued, or hit by a bus, the identity in your pocket still works.

What it doesn't buy you ​

We're not going to sell you magic. Read this part twice.

  • 1NKY is not anonymity software. It's a website with a serious privacy posture. If your threat model is a nation-state, use Tor and don't take our word for anything.
  • The ordinary site has other people's computers in the path. 1nky.com is served as a static app shell from a commercial host, which sees a request coming from somewhere. Our own box keeps nothing either way, and the onion mirror removes those hops entirely — that's what it's for.
  • You can still dox yourself. A landmark, a hand, a distinctive jacket, a tag name you already use on a platform tied to your legal name — the architecture can't save you from any of that. Read the opsec page.
  • Lose your tag, lose your name. Nobody can recover it. Not even us. Especially not us. Save your blackbook.

Why the docs are public ​

Every privacy pitch on the internet is a paragraph of adjectives. This site is built to be checked, not believed. Where we make a claim, we try to point at the file, the command, or the browser tool that proves it — and where we can't prove something yet, we mark it as a promise instead of dressing it up as a fact.

The code itself is not public yet. That's on the roadmap and it's the biggest thing still owed to anybody reading these pages sceptically: until it lands, the checks you can run on your own device (devtools, exiftool) are the ones that don't require trusting us.

If you find a place where the docs and the app disagree, that's a bug and we want to hear about it: report it here.

No accounts. No emails. No logs. Docs are public so you can check the claims instead of trusting them.

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