Company

About DXN1

The person behind the studio — Dxn1. One builder, one product, zero outside money.

Name: Dxn1 (Dani)
Role: Founder & developer — also support, docs, design and everything else
Age: 16
Base: The Netherlands, operating worldwide
Setup: A Linux PC today — but the whole studio was built on a phone first

What the studio runs

DXN1 Studios is a one-person operation by design. One product gets all the effort, one side channel keeps it fun. Every piece has a purpose. Nothing is decorative.

🦦 Sonderr

The product. Privacy-first AI workspace with Web3 capabilities — one-command install, runs from localhost, MIT open source.

LIVEFREEOPEN SOURCE

Brutalist concrete tower — the studio aesthetic

🎵 DXN1 Music

The side channel. AI-made music on YouTube — what the same builder does between releases. Not a second product; just the soundtrack.

LIVE

🛡️ Security R&D discipline

The heritage. Defensive security research habits — threat modeling, secret scrubbing, sandboxing — poured straight into Sonderr.

ONGOING

📦 The archive

The history. Academy, Labs, DARK, CREST, SoundLink, NeuralShell, the original Sonderr CLI — archived with gratitude. Their lessons live on in Sonderr.

RETIRED

Work

Flagship: Sonderr — the privacy-first AI workspace. Plus DXN1 Music on YouTube, a 10-stage CTF chain, the DXN1 Law of Code, and a 512-bit ARX cipher design in the lab notes.

The vibe

Doomerwave, old classics (Марк Бернес), hardtekk/hardstyle — most-played: «Портреты». Dark minimalism, grey skies, rain, snow. Book: Concrete & Doomerwave.

Security path

Got into security young, took some wrong turns early, and grew into strictly defensive work — the kind of builder who says no, flatly, when asked to cross the line. The dark-web tooling era is closed and it is not coming back. What stays: defensive research discipline, child safety, and products that respect their users.

More? The full story lives in the Company Handbook → — and the honest list of dos and don'ts is on What we do →

Timeline

2025 — The studio forms. First project: Dsm (Feb 14) — kept internal, later retired.
Early 2026 — BUGHUNTER-AI, BOUNTYHUNTER-AI, ai-persona-vault, Neuralshell.
May 2026 — DarkWebScraper Pro v3 (52 engines), SoundLink beta opens.
Jun–Jul 2026 — SoundLink feature sprint: profiles, GIFs, calls, groups, invites, reports.
Aug 2026 — Countdown drop, docs 2.0, and Sonderr goes live.
Oct 2026 — Portfolio simplification: Sonderr becomes the one and only product. DXN1 Music launches on YouTube. v1.6 announced for October / early November.

Projects that shaped the studio

A community RPG bot — sprawling SQLite schema, lessons in scale.
Kotlin chat app — mobile messaging prototype.
CTF chain — 10 stages: steganography → XOR crypto → ELF reversing → custom VM → polyglots.

Principles

Build, ship, protect. The mission in three words.
Open source only. Sonderr is MIT. If we ever can't open it, we won't ship it.
Your machine, your data. Local-first, no accounts, no collection, no selling.
No shortcuts. No crypto schemes, no shilling, nothing illegal — ever again, ever at all.

The book

The founder's story is collected in Concrete & Doomerwave — see the Company Handbook → for the full picture.