About a.s.d.f
Small shops go invisible unless they can outspend the chains, and your neighborhood gets mined for data. a.s.d.f is putting both right — one local map where the best deal wins on merit, not ad budget, and everything you say stays end-to-end private.
Why we're building this
a.s.d.f exists to level the local playing field — so the shop around the corner competes on how good it is, not how much it can spend to be seen. One map for your whole town, where relevance wins.
The team
a.s.d.f is built end to end by one person — the apps, the encryption core, the maps, and the backend. When you use it, you're talking to the person who made it.
Founder
Multiple startups in, he started a.s.d.f after watching the ad industry work against small business — pay-to-play platforms that price the corner store out of being found and bury its best deal under whoever spent the most, leaving a whole town's worth of local offers invisible. a.s.d.f is the answer: one local map where deals win on relevance, not ad budget, so every small shop gets a fair shot at being seen.
Building responsibly
We're a real company shipping a real product, and we're open about how it works.
A real, registered company
a.s.d.f is built by upQuark LLC — a registered company with a named founder behind it, not an anonymous app.
A product already shipping
Not a pitch deck — a.s.d.f is live and downloadable today on the App Store and Google Play.
Private by design
Messages are end-to-end encrypted with the Signal Protocol, sealed on your device. We built it so we can't read them — and neither can anyone else.
Open about how it works
Our encryption protocol and security posture are documented in public for anyone to review.
a.s.d.f is free, local, and private by default. Download it, or reach out — we'd love to hear from you.