Over the past few years of being a designer & developer, I've started & expanded lots of businesses for other people. It's been tiresome, to say the least. Chasing people down for late payments, customers not happy with the results of their own ideas & "color by numbers" has all taken its toll on my wanting to provide a "service". I've yearned for a product on the shelf, so when someone says "Can you make that blue?" I can tell them to just buy the damn blue one.

So... I've spent the past few months designing the website, developing the brand & filing the paperwork for my first business.

I've had ideas, and even had them most of the way done before talking myself out of the idea for being useless, too niche or unprofitable. I finally talked myself past that point with Lokifon, which I launched yesterday.

The website will eventually turn into a blog on how to have a paranoid level of privacy & safety when you have to put personal information online. Think of a blog that would help make your grandmother safely make purchases online, and feel safe doing so.

The bread and butter, product of the business... is a little more complicated.

Here's the TL;DR

• Buy Pre-Paid/No Contract Android Phone
• Save Device Records (IMEI/SIM)
• Add anonymous Google account
• Install VPN & Other Privacy Apps
• Strip all unnecessary Apps & Permissions
• Encrypt & PIN Lock Device
• Pack device for delivery with Credentials
• Device is Purchased by User who selects length of service
• Deliver Device to User & Purchase "Go Cards" for service length
• User Requests device activation via the website
• Activate device for user remotely using our Lokifon device
• Confirm activation & phone number with user
• Remote wipe device for user at the end of the service

A few things of note:

• I'm pretty sure this is legal. I'm just reselling private property.
• Terms of Service for most carriers say you can't sell a device with service... I don't, I sell devices just before service is provided.