Privacy

Privacy

Last updated October 10, 2026

lysosome is made by Scott Havird. This page covers the lysosome.dev website, its waitlist, and the lysosome CLI. The short version: we collect your email so we can tell you when the Mac app is ready, we don't sell or share it, and the CLI doesn't phone home.

What the waitlist stores

When you join the waitlist we store:

• Your email address. This is the point of the list.
• What you asked to hear about, if you ticked any boxes (Mac app beta, CLI releases, team and fleet).
• Which form you used (for example the top of the page or the pricing section), so we know which parts of the site work.
• Your country, as Cloudflare works it out from your connection. Not your city, not your address.
• The referring page your browser sent, if any, and your browser's user agent string.
• A salted hash of your IP address, used to limit signups to a few per hour per network so bots can't flood the list. We never store the IP address itself, and the salt is a secret, so the hash can't be turned back into an IP by looking it up.
• The time you signed up, when we sent your confirmation email, and a random token that makes your personal unsubscribe link work.

Every signup attempt also records the same salted IP hash with a timestamp, again only for rate limiting.

Why, and what we email

When you join, we send one confirmation email right away: what you signed up for, how to install the CLI, and your unsubscribe link. After that, we use your email to tell you when the lysosome for Mac beta and early-bird pricing open, plus news about the other things you asked for. That's all. No newsletters you didn't ask for, and we never sell, rent or share your address with anyone for their own use. The other details help us understand where signups come from and keep the list free of spam.

How long we keep it

• Rate-limit records (salted IP hash and time) are only needed for an hour and are deleted once they are more than a day old. The cleanup runs as new signups come in, so on a quiet week they can linger a little longer.
• Your waitlist entry stays until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, or until the waitlist is no longer needed, whichever comes first.
• If you unsubscribe, we keep your address marked as unsubscribed so you are never emailed again. If you'd rather it be deleted entirely, ask and we'll delete it.

Getting removed

Every email we send includes your personal unsubscribe link. You can also email scott.havird@gmail.com from the address you signed up with to unsubscribe, to get a copy of what we hold about you, or to have it deleted. A real person reads that inbox.

Who processes it

The site runs on Cloudflare, which acts as our processor: it hosts the site and stores the waitlist database, and any email we send you goes through Cloudflare's email service. Cloudflare necessarily sees your IP address when you visit, like any host, and keeps short-lived request logs.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't fingerprint you, and doesn't track you across sites. The site sets no cookies at all; the light/dark theme switch remembers your choice in your browser's local storage, which never leaves your device.

The curl -fsSL https://lysosome.dev/install.sh | sh install command passes through this site and then downloads the CLI from GitHub. Homebrew and GitHub have their own privacy policies when you install from them.

The CLI has no telemetry

The open-source lysosome CLI collects nothing and sends nothing. It has no analytics, no crash reporting, no update checks, and no network code of its own; you can check the source on GitHub.

To find caches, it runs tools you already have installed (such as git, docker, brew, npm and xcrun) and asks them where their data lives, with their own update checks, downloads and analytics switched off. An upcoming version may also ask your local gh (the GitHub CLI) whether a branch was squash-merged, so it can tell when a worktree is safe to remove. That request goes from your machine to GitHub using your own gh login; nothing goes to us. That version will have a --no-gh flag to turn it off.

lysosome for Mac isn't out yet. We'll update this page before it ships to say exactly what, if anything, it sends.

Changes

If this changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your email, we'll tell you by email before it takes effect.