The honest version. No fine print, no surprises.
Shenanigans is a personal project, built to share GPS road trips with friends and family. It's not a startup. It's not a product. Nobody's trying to grow it, raise money for it, or sell it. It runs on a Raspberry Pi tucked away in someone's house, doing its quiet little job of remembering where people went and who they went with.
At its heart, it's a way to turn a trip into something you can share. You upload your GPS tracks, add photos and notes along the way, and the app stitches them into a map and a timeline you can hand to the people who care about you. There's a community map for the spots worth knowing about. But really it's about the memory â the proof that you were out there, and a way to bring everyone else along for the ride.
Your email. Used for account verification, password resets, and optional trip notifications. Never used for marketing. Never shared or sold. That's it.
Your location and GPS tracks. This is the core of the app â when you make a trip public, your routes are shared by design, because that's the whole point. But you stay in control of the details. The app automatically strips GPS data from photo EXIF on upload. It offers coordinate fuzzing, so your location is reported within a radius rather than exactly. And it offers privacy zones, so the start and end of your route near home can be automatically trimmed before anyone else sees it. These are opt-in tools, not defaults â you decide how much to reveal.
Your photos. GPS EXIF is stripped from every photo on upload, always, with no opt-out needed. The thumbnail versions are re-encoded from scratch and carry no metadata at all.
What we'll never do. No ads. No selling data. No third-party analytics. No tracking pixels. None of it.
Everything is self-hosted on personal hardware â not AWS, not Google, not anyone's cloud. The trade-off is real: there's less of an uptime guarantee than a commercial service can offer. But in exchange, your data isn't somebody else's business model. It just sits on a drive in a house, where it belongs.
Want your account and all your data gone? You're in control â no dark patterns, no "are you sure" maze, no emailing anyone to ask permission. Head to your profile and hit the "Erase my Existence" button. It permanently deletes your account and everything in it, and hands you a signed receipt as proof. It's instant, and it's final.
This whole thing is maintained by one person, in their spare time. So to be upfront: there's no SLA, no support team, and occasionally something will break on a Tuesday and get fixed on a Thursday. But there's also no VC pressure, no quiet pivot to advertising, and no acquisition lurking around the corner that turns your road trips into ad inventory. It's small on purpose, and it intends to stay that way.