~/about — cat README.md
Black terminal heart. White product face.
One independent studio, both halves of the panda. The dark half signs the builds and audits the dependencies; the white half makes software your thumb actually likes. Neither half works alone.
README.md
The studio.
Everything worth knowing about us fits in one README. No press kit, no mission-statement generator — just the file at the root of the repo.
panda-the-app
Panda The App is an independent app studio building for macOS, iOS, and Android: entertainment apps, trackers and utilities, fun games, and small-business tools. Founded 2026, headcount measured in single digits, ambition measured in decades — the roadmap runs ten years, from the first shipped tracker all the way to an enterprise SaaS platform. We are in no hurry, and that is on purpose.
the duality
A panda is black and white. So are we. Underneath: hacker discipline — no trackers, no ads, no user data for sale, codename: BAMBOO MAINFRAME humming in the dark. On top: warm, human software with round corners and no manual required. The terminal you're reading this in is decorative today and product tomorrow — the aesthetic is a promise about the engineering, not a costume.
principles
01 Ship small and sharp. One sharp tool beats one blunt platform,
and each app is built for where it gets used — the browser on a yard tablet, the phone
in a driver's pocket.
02 Announce early, in the open queue. Every app gets a public card
before it ships — status, platforms, changelog. If we're late, you'll watch us be late.
03 Never sell user data. Not "anonymized," not "aggregated," not
"to trusted partners." The revenue model is: you pay for apps, we make apps.
04 Honest about offline. Where an app can work without a connection,
it does. Where it can't, its page says so before you find out in the yard — unlike
the panda, who is a night owl and tells no one.
operator
whoami Hoang Le Panda — founder, builder, and the human half of
the duality. Reach the desk directly at
hoangle@pandatheapp.com.
Base of operations: King Park West, West Springfield, Virginia 22151, USA.
fortune | panda
"Half the panda writes the code. The other half deletes the tracking SDK."
gpg --verify manifesto.txt
Our word, signed.
Most studios publish values. We publish a hash. The verify button recomputes the SHA-256 of the sentence below in your own browser — if anyone ever edits our word, the signature goes bad. Try it.
cat /etc/security.conf
Built paranoid, so you can relax.
Hacker aesthetic on the surface, hacker discipline underneath. These are the standing orders, and each one is something you can check.
[OK] no trackers, no ads this site and the Dockyard demo load no analytics, ad pixels or tracking cookies
[OK] your data is never for sale not anonymized, not aggregated, not to trusted partners
[OK] encrypted in transit TLS 1.3 on this site and on the live app — check the padlock
[OK] try it before you talk to anyone the Dockyard demo is open: no form, no sales call
[OK] honest about offline where an app needs a connection, its page says so up front
[OK] phone apps ship through the stores signed, reviewed, on Google Play and the App Store — or not at all
grep -i faq
Common questions.
what is Panda The App?
Panda The App is an independent app studio founded in 2026 in West Springfield, Virginia. It builds entertainment apps, trackers and utilities, fun games, and small-business software for macOS, iOS, and Android, with a ten-year roadmap toward an enterprise SaaS platform in 2036.
who runs Panda The App?
Hoang Le Panda — founder and builder. Reach the desk directly at hoangle@pandatheapp.com.
does Panda The App sell user data?
Never. Not anonymized, not aggregated, not to trusted partners. The revenue model is: you pay for apps, we make apps. This website runs no analytics, no ad pixels and no tracking cookies, and neither does the Dockyard demo.
can I request an app?
Yes — the queue is open. Use the request-an-app form on the apps page and describe the app the world is missing; every request goes straight to the founder's desk.