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About
Soos Labs builds small tools that respect the people using them.
The story
Each of the four started the same way: the thing should exist, no version of it treated its users properly, so it got built. We build deliberately, ship when the work is ready, and keep maintaining what we release.
What they have in common is not a category. It is a set of rules that do not get broken.
The rules
Do the work on the device when the device can do it
A birth chart is arithmetic. A QR code is a picture your phone already has. Neither needs a round trip to a server, so neither gets one — which means there is no copy of your data to lose.
Ship all nine languages at once
Not English first and the rest later. Every string in every product exists in nine languages, and native speakers have read them — the first drafts had real mistakes in them, and those got fixed before release.
Ask for nothing you do not need
No sign-up wall in front of a weather forecast. No email address to scan a code. An account only appears where something genuinely cannot work without one, like an API key.
Be honest about uncertainty
Outside says when the forecast models disagree. Astra computes rather than invents, and says so. It is easy to sound confident; it is more useful to be accurate.
Found a bug, want something added, or just want to say the German translation is off? Get in touch — every message is read and answered.
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