[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":155},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-\u002Fabout\u002Ffounder":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":145,"edit":146,"extension":147,"meta":148,"navigation":149,"path":150,"seo":151,"stem":152,"vertical":146,"weight":153,"__hash__":154},"content\u002Fabout\u002Ffounder.md","Why this exists",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":135},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,25,33,36,59,63,66,73,82,86,89,107,110,114,129,132],[10,11,12],"p",{},"OpenSense is built by one person in Bratislava, Slovakia. Knowing\nthis changes what is on the roadmap and what is honest to promise.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"what-i-am","What I am",[10,19,20],{},"Solo founder, EU based, EU national, full-stack engineer with a\ndecade of operational software behind me. I run a Slovak entity\n(s.r.o.), pay Slovak tax, talk to Slovak customers in their language\nor in English.",[14,22,24],{"id":23},"what-this-product-is","What this product is",[10,26,27,28,32],{},"A telemetry SaaS for small operations that need ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"just enough","\nmonitoring evidence to satisfy their inspector, their insurer, or\nthemselves. Not a SCADA, not a Testo replacement, not a hardware\nvendor.",[10,34,35],{},"I picked this product because three things lined up:",[37,38,39,47,53],"ol",{},[40,41,42,46],"li",{},[43,44,45],"strong",{},"EU food-and-water regulation creates real demand"," every year\nthat we keep tightening hygiene rules.",[40,48,49,52],{},[43,50,51],{},"Commodity sensors are now good enough."," A €30 Shelly does what\na €300 device did in 2018. The bottleneck moved from hardware to\nsoftware.",[40,54,55,58],{},[43,56,57],{},"I can build it alone."," There is no proprietary chemistry to\ndevelop, no calibration lab to run, no sales team to manage. It\nis an HTTP API and a small dashboard.",[14,60,62],{"id":61},"what-you-are-buying","What you are buying",[10,64,65],{},"A working product, with bug fixes and updates, from a person who\nwill be on the other end of an email. The dashboard has my number on\nit; if you call, I answer.",[10,67,68,69,72],{},"You are also buying a ",[43,70,71],{},"single point of failure",". If I am unwell or\non holiday, response time stretches. The product is set up to run\nunattended (autoscaling Hetzner, no manual interventions in the\ncommon path), and the audit-trail design means your data is safe\nfrom my mistakes — but for time-sensitive vendor support, this is a\nrisk to know about.",[10,74,75,76,81],{},"If your operation cannot tolerate that risk, you should buy from a\nlarger vendor. I will say so to your face. The\n",[77,78,80],"a",{"href":79},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcomparison","comparison page"," tries to be honest about when\nthat vendor is Testo or Eupry.",[14,83,85],{"id":84},"what-i-am-betting-on","What I am betting on",[10,87,88],{},"That a thousand small European businesses prefer:",[90,91,92,95,98,101,104],"ul",{},[40,93,94],{},"Honest pricing (€29 \u002F month, no per-seat games).",[40,96,97],{},"EU jurisdiction (no US Cloud Act exposure).",[40,99,100],{},"Hardware they choose, not hardware I sell them.",[40,102,103],{},"An audit trail they can verify externally.",[40,105,106],{},"A product that ships when I say it will.",[10,108,109],{},"...over a fancier brochure from a multinational. We will find out.",[14,111,113],{"id":112},"how-to-contact-me","How to contact me",[90,115,116,123,126],{},[40,117,118,119],{},"Email: ",[77,120,122],{"href":121},"mailto:grande.chuvash@gmail.com","grande.chuvash@gmail.com",[40,124,125],{},"For non-urgent bug reports: open an issue on the public issue\ntracker (URL pending — will be linked from the main site once the\nrepo is open).",[40,127,128],{},"For commercial enquiries (chains, MSPs, distributors): email me\ndirectly.",[10,130,131],{},"This page exists because operators ask, and because I prefer to\nintroduce myself before the first invoice.",[10,133,134],{},"— Murzin",{"title":136,"searchDepth":137,"depth":137,"links":138},"",3,[139,141,142,143,144],{"id":16,"depth":140,"text":17},2,{"id":23,"depth":140,"text":24},{"id":61,"depth":140,"text":62},{"id":84,"depth":140,"text":85},{"id":112,"depth":140,"text":113},"A short note from the founder",null,"md",{},true,"\u002Fabout\u002Ffounder",{"title":5,"description":145},"about\u002Ffounder",990,"xfwDk1ZIPcuU3CJjO3JUQexzMUwdWU5nwwU5tFLMh6U",1779022956512]