Your kink should be no one's business
Introducing Domination: a fully end-to-end encrypted messaging app and task tracker for BDSM relationships.
With Domination, you can share kinky tasks, photos, and conversations with your partner(s) that nobody else can access. We can’t read them, train AI models on them, or hand them over to third parties.
We believe what a dom and their sub share together on their phone should be as private as what occurs in the bedroom (or dungeon). Revolutionary, we know.
Who is in your DMs?
We love Signal. We use it to talk with friends and family, confident that when we send a message, only the recipient can read it.
But most apps aren’t Signal. They lack the encryption that would keep your data safe, and this feels exponentially more risky when intimate details are being shared. In 2020, a massive breach exposed 1.5 million photos from dating apps, including BDSM platforms.
But even without a breach, most apps are architecturally designed to make your private life readable. Your photos, messages, and task lists sit on servers where employees can access them, product teams can analyze them, and future business models can monetize them. Many apps (including potentially other BDSM habit trackers) are able to keep their products at an artificially low price by selling your data to third parties.
In other words, your data is a corporate asset.
Why this matters
88% of adults sexted last year - it’s normal. But “normal” doesn’t mean “safe to have leaked,” and it definitely doesn’t mean “okay for a company to read and sell.”
When leaks happen, the consequences are real: reputations can be damaged, jobs can be lost, and people can be outed without consent. But even without leaks, there’s something fundamentally wrong about strangers having access to your intimate life.
The BDSM community gets this. Desiring privacy isn’t about shame – it’s about safety, consent, and control. It’s about choosing who gets to know what about you.
The gold standard in encryption
We didn’t invent our own encryption (at least one of us isn’t a masochist). We did our own implementation of the Signal Protocol, the same encryption used by WhatsApp, Google Messages, and Signal itself. It’s been independently audited, battle-tested by billions of users, and is what security researchers point to when they talk about encryption done right.
When you send a message, photo, or task using Domination, your device encrypts it before it leaves your phone. Only your partner’s device can decrypt it. All we can see on our servers is scrambled nonsense. We literally cannot read it, even if we wanted to. Even if someone hacked our servers, all they’d get is the same encrypted gibberish.
This is called end-to-end encryption (E2EE), and we believe it should be standard for any app handling intimate data. Unfortunately, it’s not - most apps either skip encryption entirely or encrypt your data but retain the keys to unlock it.
Playful, premium and private
Beyond privacy, we wanted to build an app that feels good to use. We’ve tried other BDSM habit trackers, and they tend to feel clinical - more spreadsheet than sexy.
We also wanted to include private messaging in addition to habit tracking from the ground up. We didn’t want our users to have to bounce over to other messaging apps while using Domination to send sexy punishments and rewards.
We wanted the experience to feel conversational, playful, and modern.
It’s still early, but we’ve been testing it with friends in the community for a few weeks. If you’ve been looking for a way to explore power dynamics with your partner(s) over your phone with the same privacy you have in person, give it a try.
Let us know what you think.
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