Dial something in
Your data is your car.
theuniversal is the GPS.
Dialin works just like driving with GPS. The car is yours. The GPS helps you find the way.
🚗 Your car: Dialin
It's yours
Nobody gets in without your permission. Not us, not a company, not anyone.
You're in control
You pick the music and set the temperature. Change anything, or turn it off, any time.
Bring anything
Photos, songs, files, places, and how you feel about them. It all rides with you.
🛰️ The GPS: theuniversal
Tell it where you're going
Tell Dialin what you like and what you want to do, like typing a place into GPS.
It sees everything at once
GPS sees every road. theuniversal sees every offer, song, video and taste at the same time.
It finds your way
It matches you with what fits and points the way. It only sees what you choose to share, blurred so no one knows it's you.
Nobody owns GPS, and nobody owns theuniversal. It's public and run as a non-profit. Dialin is one car, and anyone can build another. Your trust, your points and your tastes ride with you in whichever car you drive.
How you use it
Dial something in
Point your phone at anything — a coffee, a song, a view — and say how it feels. It's saved in your car, at that place.Get a point
Every real dial-in at a real place earns a point. It shows you were really there.Follow the GPS
Places send you offers that fit what you like. Go, and GPS confirms you came — that's another point.
New to dials? What a dial is · The Dial Dictionary
The fine print, in plain words
Worth more than money
We don't pay you for your data and we never sell it. Points aren't cash. They're a relationship: a place that knows you came back, a table held, an invitation.
Never a copy
When you share a photo, a file or your number, the other person gets a link back to your car, not a copy. Change your mind and take the link back.
What's open
theuniversal is public. DIOS and the Dial Dictionary are being opened as source, so anyone can check them and build on them (developers). Dialin itself is private.
Pricing
- 2 GB free, forever.
- Storage beyond that at our cost, doubled — $2.50 per 100 GB a month when paid storage opens.
- Businesses pay for tools, never for your data. The business dashboard is coming.
Making offers and earning points are free for everyone. Storage details
Questions people ask
Who is behind Dialin?
Sandeep Sharma, the founder, building it as Dialin LLC, a Delaware company. You can write to him at seekers@dialin.io.
Where does my data live today?
In the cloud. Your files are on Storj, an encrypted cloud spread over many independent drives, and your dials sit in a locked database that only you and the people you share with can see. No ads and no trackers. Next, we want your originals to live on your phone, with only locked copies in the cloud. If you've built that kind of thing, help us at seekers@dialin.io.
Is any of it open source?
theuniversal is public and run as a non-profit. DIOS, the dial engine, and the Dial Dictionary are being opened as source; the dictionary is readable today through the developer API, under CC BY 4.0. The Dialin app itself is private.
What are points worth?
They aren't cash, and we never pay for data. A point shows you were really somewhere. Points carry a relationship: a place that knows you came back, a table held, an invitation.
Can I export or delete everything?
Yes, any time, from your account. Export takes all of it with you; delete removes all of it.
Is Dialin for me?
Yes if you want to remember the things you love, share them when someone asks, and keep them in a cloud that's yours. Not yet if you want cash for your data, or need everything stored only on your phone today.
Who's behind it
I'm Sandeep Sharma. The internet runs backwards: what we notice and feel flows out to platforms that keep it and sell it. Dialin turns that around. Your data stays home, and the world comes to you by invitation. Music is coming next.
Founder · seekers@dialin.io
Anything near you works. No account needed.