Built from a
real disaster

The Story

On April 27, 2026, a Mac Mini died. The SSD failed. The data was gone.

But the real damage had already happened. iCloud Drive had been silently corrupting git repositories for months. Lockfile races, partial pack writes, index conflicts, ref pointer overwrites. Every repo that touched iCloud was compromised.

The backups? Time Machine had one. GitHub had some. But dozens of projects, patents, research files, and uncommitted work existed only on those drives.

We looked for a tool that could have prevented this. Something that understood git internals, encrypted before uploading, and stored backups in our own cloud bucket. Nothing existed. Not one commercial product. So we built it.

What DevSafe Does

DevSafe is an encrypted git backup tool. It discovers your repositories, creates snapshots straight from git, encrypts them with AES-256-GCM on your machine, and uploads them to your own S3-compatible storage.

Your encryption keys never leave your machine. Your backups go to your own bucket. There is no DevSafe server between you and your data.

DevSafe also includes AI Shield, which protects your .env files, API keys, and secrets from leaking through AI coding assistants like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code.

The Principles

• Your keys, your bucket. DevSafe encrypts on your machine and uploads to your own cloud storage. We never hold your encryption keys. We never have access to your data.
• Git-aware, not filesystem-aware. We read directly from git, not the filesystem. This is why cloud sync corrupts repos and DevSafe does not.
• Local-first. DevSafe works offline. No server required. No account required for core functionality. Your backups are yours.
• Zero trust. Every backup is verifiable without trusting the storage provider. You can prove your backups are restorable without downloading them.
• No vendor lock-in. Your backups are standard encrypted snapshots. If DevSafe disappears tomorrow, your data is still yours.

The Company

DevSafe is built by HXA Labs, a Wyoming LLC founded by Joshua D. Ledbetter. We are a small, independent company. No venture capital. No board. No pressure to monetize your data.

We build developer infrastructure that protects your work. DevSafe is our first product, and we intend to keep building tools that put developers in control of their own data.

Open Where It Matters

The DevSafe backup format is open and documented. Your data is never trapped in a proprietary format. If you stop using DevSafe, you can still decrypt and restore everything with standard tools and your own key.

The encryption model and verification system are described in our security documentation. We publish how it works because transparency builds trust, and trust is earned.

Contact

We read every message.