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Safia®

Our Product

A privacy-first safety reporting app that lets people report security incidents and view them on an interactive map, built for communities in crisis zones where every second counts.

9+
Languages supported
100%
Privacy focused
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To submit a report
Real-time
Map updates

Our Focus

Software Publishing

We design, develop, and publish our own software products that solve real-world problems. From Safia, our privacy-first safety reporting app, to future solutions, we build technology people rely on.

Cloud Infrastructure & Data Processing

We build and operate our own scalable cloud infrastructure and data processing systems to power our products with reliability, security, and performance.

R&D & Innovation

We invest in applied research to turn emerging technologies into viable products. Our R&D fuels every product we ship and every infrastructure decision we make.

Latest Writing

Cover image for article: Our Cloud Run Bill Had a Bot Problem. Cloudflare Fixed It.
Technology
2026-03-27/Gerry Ntabuhashe

Our Cloud Run Bill Had a Bot Problem. Cloudflare Fixed It.

We were paying for bot traffic we never wanted, waking up idle Cloud Run instances on every invalid request. Here is how we put Cloudflare in front of our API to block the noise, protect against DDoS, and keep our Google Cloud bill predictable.

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Cover image for article: We Ditched Ngrok for Cloudflared. It Cost Us 2 euros
Technology
2026-02-01/Gerry Ntabuhashe

We Ditched Ngrok for Cloudflared. It Cost Us 2 euros

We spent four years relying on Ngrok for local development. Then the free tier friction and unpredictable paid plan costs pushed us to experiment. Here is how we replaced it with Cloudflared Tunnels for a 2€ yearly cost, and what we found on the other side.

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Cover image for article: From 72 Days to 33 Hours: Uploading 87 Million Files to Cloudflare R2
Technology
2025-12-02/Gerry Ntabuhashe

From 72 Days to 33 Hours: Uploading 87 Million Files to Cloudflare R2

Moving 87 million files to Cloudflare R2? We benchmarked AWS CLI, Rclone, and s5cmd. See how s5cmd cut our transfer time from 72 days down to 33 hours.

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Contact Us

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Av Herrmann-Debroux 54
1160 Auderghem
Brussels, Belgium