Day one of UNTRAPD Stories. I'll go first.

This is the first entry on this page. So I'll start with the obvious one: why I built FINDERR.

70 million phones get lost every year. Most are found by good people who want to return them. Almost nobody can.

That's the gap I kept staring at.

Find My Device tells you where your phone is. Apple Find My does the same. Both are owner-side tools. When your phone is lost, they help you. They do nothing for the stranger holding it in their hand right now.

Most lost phones don't get stolen. They get dropped, forgotten in taxis, left on park benches. Honest finders pick them up and want to do the right thing. The phone is locked. They can't. So they hand it to the cleaning staff, the train station counter, the police. Maybe it makes its way back. Maybe it doesn't.

I kept thinking: what if the phone, locked, told the finder how to reach the owner?

That's it. That's FINDERR.

A QR code on the lockscreen. Emergency contact info, visible without unlock. The finder scans it with their own camera. They reach you. The phone goes home.

It's not novel. Lockscreen messages have existed forever. Apple's Medical ID does some of it. A few apps tried this on Android. Most are abandoned.

What's different about FINDERR is that it's free, sovereign, doesn't track you, doesn't require an account on the finder's end, and it works offline. That's the bar UNTRAPD set: tools that respect both sides.

I built it because nobody else was going to build it the way I'd want it built.

If you've lost a phone, found one, or watched it happen to someone — this page is where those stories will live. Yours, eventually. Mine, today.