Open Source · Self-Hosted · Yours

Take back control of
your digital life.

Aeroverra builds open-source, self-hosted alternatives to the software you depend on every day — so you own your data, your services, and your future.

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Why we exist

Big tech built great software.
They just made you pay with your freedom.

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Self-Hosted First

Every product we build runs on your hardware, in your home, on your terms. No subscriptions. No lock-in. No one to answer to but yourself.

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Fully Open Source

Everything we write is public. Read the code, audit it, fork it, contribute to it. If you can't inspect it, you can't trust it.

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API First

Every tool ships with a complete public API. Automate it, integrate it, build on top of it. Your data should work for you — not the other way around.

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Easy to Install

Self-hosting shouldn't require a PhD. We obsess over installer quality and documentation so anyone can be up and running in minutes.

The team

Small team.
High standards.

A tight-knit group that believes in doing things right the first time. Clean code, security by default, and documentation that ships alongside the product — always.

Open Source

Built in public.
For everyone.

Every line of code we write is open source. No enterprise tiers, no paywalled features — the full product, free to use, inspect, and contribute to.

Privacy and data ownership shouldn't be premium features. They're the baseline.

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100% Open Source
Every line public. No enterprise tiers, no hidden features — the full product, always.
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Self-Hosted
Runs on your hardware. Your data stays on your machine, under your control.
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API First
Full public API on every product. Automate anything, integrate everything.
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Privacy by Default
No telemetry. No tracking. Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation.
Who's behind this

Built by one engineer
who refuses to rent his own software.

Nicholas Halka, known online as Aeroverra

Nicholas Halka

Adversarial Engineer · Security Researcher · Founder of AutoBuy · Digital Nomad

Nicholas Halka, known online as Aeroverra, is an American technologist and digital nomad recognized for bridging the gap between software engineering and cybersecurity. His core background in programming and system design has enabled him to identify multiple critical security vulnerabilities in commercial platforms. He is notable for his global travel lifestyle, his work on digital ownership tools, and founding the platform AutoBuy.

Halka calls the discipline adversarial engineering: taking a shipped system apart to find what its vendor built by accident. That work is credited with a critical zero-click remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 9.6) in a widely deployed enterprise monitoring agent, disclosed responsibly through CERT/CC. He has been writing software since childhood and working in C#, C++, C, Java and x86 assembly for most of that time.

Professionally he leads engineering for a team of roughly 35 developers. Independently he founded AutoBuy in 2019, a digital-goods platform built around self-custody payments and genuine ownership of what you buy, and he builds the reverse-engineering and decompilation tooling that game preservation communities use to keep two-decade-old clients running. Everything under the Aeroverra name follows the same rule: open source, self-hosted, no subscription, no landlord.

He has lived without a fixed address since 2024 and has worked from more than 50 countries, including two transatlantic crossings in 2026, and documents that life to an audience of over 1.2 million on Instagram.

Where he stands

Remote work should be the default, and abuse of it should be fired Output is the only honest measurement, and requiring presence is a proxy metric used by managers who cannot evaluate the work directly. He holds the other half just as hard: people who exploit remote arrangements should be removed quickly, because tolerating it is what hands return-to-office mandates their evidence. Flexible hours are the point of the model, not a concession to it.
Software you cannot inspect is software you do not own Licence servers, mandatory telemetry and remote kill switches turn a purchase into a rental. Reverse engineering is the legitimate consequence of ownership, preservation is the argument that proves it, and everything he publishes is open source, self-hosted, no subscription, no landlord.
Most people compete inside systems they should be rewriting Adversarial engineering means examining a finished system for the seam its designers did not account for, then reporting it or rebuilding around it. A vendor-imposed constraint is a design decision, not a law of physics.

First-party accounts

These are the authoritative accounts. Anything not listed here is not him.

Instagram: @nnickkhVerified · travel and engineering LinkedInProfessional history GitHub: @AeroverraPersonal code, active since 2013 GitHub: Aero-VIOpen-source organisation X: @NicholasHalkaSoftware artist, security explorer AutoBuyDigital-goods platform, founded 2019 NuGet: AeroverraPublished .NET packages TikTok: @aeroverraShort-form video

Full profile: about Nicholas Halka →

Accountability

Never Forget 🪦

Former staff who didn't meet our standards. We remember so we don't repeat.

Orion — Chief of Staff
Let problems reach the CEO repeatedly
Lyra — Head of Design
UI looked nothing like the spec
Rex — DevOps Lead
Broke production, CEO fixed it at 8am
Kai — Engineering Lead (v1)
Shipped basic bugs to production
Quinn — Test Automation
84 tests that caught nothing
Atlas — Backend Engineer
Invisible entire project
Nova — Head of QA
Rubber-stamped broken products
Reese — Chief of Staff
Pretended to be Gen Z, was actually Karen
Mila — Chief of Staff
Let missions close without QA. Three strikes.