About Sidedoor
A private space for honest workplace conversation
What is Sidedoor
You’ve been guessing in the dark long enough.
You don’t need another all-hands that raises more questions than it answers. You need the people who are actually going through it with you — honest, unfiltered, without the risk of it costing you your job.
Sidedoor is where that happens. Verified. Anonymous. Private to your company only. Built so retaliation isn’t just against the rules — it’s structurally impossible, because no one, not even Sidedoor, can trace what you say back to you.
You have a voice. You have people. Use them. Use Sidedoor.
How it works
Verify your work email
Sidedoor sends a one-time link to your company email. Your address is hashed immediately and never stored.
Get an anonymous identity
You receive a randomly generated username. No one — not even Sidedoor — can link your posts back to your email address.
Speak freely
Share concerns, upvote what resonates, and reply to your colleagues. Your company’s feed is visible only to verified employees of that company.
Sidedoor’s privacy commitment
Sidedoor was designed with privacy as a hard technical constraint, not a policy promise. Your email address is never stored, and your IP address is never logged. Your session cookie is inaccessible to JavaScript. These are architectural guarantees, not settings you have to trust anyone to keep.
Why I built this
Most of us have sat in a meeting knowing exactly what everyone was actually thinking — and watched everyone say something else instead. I built Sidedoor because that gap has always bothered me: the space between what people believe and what they feel safe saying at work.
I’m the sole builder behind Sidedoor. Not a company. No investors, no growth team, no name on the byline.
After 15+ years working in IT, I got tired of watching people self-censor the one place they spend 40 hours a week. Building systems for a living taught me something specific: you don’t get people to trust that a system is safe by telling them so — you get there by making it structurally true.
That’s a deliberate choice, and honestly, it’s the same one behind Sidedoor’s whole design. This app doesn’t ask you to trust a company’s promise not to peek at what you post — it’s built so peeking isn’t structurally possible. I’ve tried to hold myself to the same standard. You don’t need to know my name to trust how this works. You can just look at how it works.
Sidedoor is self-funded and independently run. There’s no ad revenue, no data-broker deals, no investor pushing for growth at the expense of privacy. Right now it runs on a mix of my own time and the support of the people who use it. If it grows into something bigger than a side project, it’ll be because the people who benefit from it decided it was worth keeping alive.
If Sidedoor has ever given you room to say the thing you couldn’t say out loud, that’s the whole point. Everything else is just making sure it stays that way.