[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":87},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblogs\u002Fautobutler-is-dead-long-live-the-autobutler":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":77,"extension":78,"meta":79,"navigation":82,"path":83,"seo":84,"stem":85,"__hash__":86},"content\u002Fblogs\u002Fautobutler-is-dead-long-live-the-autobutler.md","AutoButler is dead; long live the autobutler",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":67},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,31,40,44,47,51,54,58,61,64],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Hello friends! We have a variety of product updates in queue for you, and we've not been sitting still!",[10,14,15],{},"It's been a few months - I think our last blog post was early in the summer, and while we did take a bit of time off\nfrom AutoButler, we've still managed to get a fair amount done, including a rebrand…",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"meet-quark","Meet Quark",[10,22,23,30],{},[24,25,29],"a",{"href":26,"rel":27},"https:\u002F\u002Fquark.autobutler.org",[28],"nofollow","Quark"," is the new flagship product for AutoButler, LLC.",[10,32,33,34,39],{},"We are keeping the company name and website at ",[24,35,38],{"href":36,"rel":37},"https:\u002F\u002Fautobutler.org",[28],"autobutler.org",", but we have a new website for\nour product itself. Increasingly we are realizing that we want to do so much more than just make these data storage\nsolutions; additionally, we had some notable problems with getting our app into the Apple app store under the name\n\"Autobutler\" (apparently someone else had the idea of naming their car wash the same thing, and Apple won't let you have\nthe same name as anyone else; I can't help but imagine this is a major part of why we get tech products with ridiculous\nnames) - so we took inspiration from some of our fellow, more reasonable privacy-focused tech companies and named our\nproduct Quark.",[17,41,43],{"id":42},"why-quark","Why \"Quark\"",[10,45,46],{},"Not only is Quark small as a physical product, but a large collection of them together comprises a broader \"thing\"; for\nthose who aren't nerds, a \"quark\" is the smallest part of an atom. We like building things, and we believe that cultural\nchange usually comes from many small changes rather than one or two major lightning-strike moments.",[17,48,50],{"id":49},"what-weve-been-building","What We've Been Building",[10,52,53],{},"We have a blog coming soon that's got all the new features of the device - we rewrote the backend, have made MASSIVE\nperformance improvements on the Photos library and continue finding ways to make that better, added useful Search\nfeatures, added a Password Vault that allows you to back up your passwords at home across devices (something no other\nsimilar product offers, by the way), and… A MOBILE APP! Yes, we are beta testing the iOS and Android applications now!\nAll this, with notable security improvements to block brute force attacks and more.",[17,55,57],{"id":56},"when-you-can-get-one","When You Can Get One",[10,59,60],{},"We're eager to share our work with you, and are looking at a friends-and-family limited run of an at-cost release in\nearly February. Our goal is to delete our own Google accounts in November and stress-test the thing. We did have a\nsetback with the original hardware we wanted to use, but we'd rather get this RIGHT than have the devices die on users.",[10,62,63],{},"As always, we love you all and are so excited to build stuff, and we want to build stuff for you. Feel free to reach out\nanytime.",[10,65,66],{},"Grace and peace, Brandon and James (and not Claude! we write these ourselves!)",{"title":68,"searchDepth":69,"depth":70,"links":71},"",6,5,[72,74,75,76],{"id":19,"depth":73,"text":20},2,{"id":42,"depth":73,"text":43},{"id":49,"depth":73,"text":50},{"id":56,"depth":73,"text":57},"We're rebranding our flagship product to Quark, and sharing a preview of everything that's coming with it.","md",{"date":80,"author":81},"2026-09-11","Brandon Apol and James Orson",true,"\u002Fblogs\u002Fautobutler-is-dead-long-live-the-autobutler",{"title":5,"description":77},"blogs\u002Fautobutler-is-dead-long-live-the-autobutler","I-ui-UcmWsivM2rc5ViR2jN0mAnAGxt8LQy_HVxlHPY",1791940975764]