Who is building it

Two founders. The app has been shipping since May 2026.

We are software engineering students at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The part that matters is the second half of the headline: the app is in production, not in a pitch deck.

The team

Two people.

Ignacio de la Vega Rodríguez

Founder

Nacho, for short. Software engineering student at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He was building SpiderNet before Xiji, and is in Shanghai for the incubator’s four-month programme.

Alejandro Gallego

Cofounder, technology

Builds and maintains the app.

His bio, in his own words, is on its way. We would rather leave the space than write it for him.

The facts

Everything here can be checked.

  • Team
    Two founders. Ignacio de la Vega Rodríguez and Alejandro Gallego, both studying software engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Plus one marketing advisor.
  • In production
    Shipping since May 2026. Live on iOS and Android.
  • Institutional support
    Xiji Incubator. Which is also the Spain–China bridge: the reason a Chinese version is being worked on at all.
  • Where we are
    Madrid, Spain. Nacho is in Shanghai for the four-month Xiji Incubator programme.

There is no user count on this page, and no rating. We have not published either because neither has been verified, and a number you cannot check is worth less than no number at all.

Languages

Five languages in the app, with gaps. Chinese is not one of them yet.

It would be easy to round that up and let you find out later. The app ships with five languages, but not every string is translated yet: a German user still sees Spanish in places, and the app currently starts in Spanish for everyone. Both are known and on the list.

In the app today · incomplete

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

In progress · not finished

  • Chinese

Being worked on through the Xiji Incubator bridge. It is not complete, so it is not in the column on the left, and there is no release date to give you.

Why this

Because a meeting that leaves no trace was not a meeting.

You go to a conference, talk to thirty people, and a fortnight later you have a phone full of names and no idea which conversation belonged to which. The information that would have made those names useful — where you were, who else was there, what you were both looking for — existed for about an hour and then was gone. That is the gap SpiderNet is built on.

How the mechanism works — the chain, the seven inputs, and how far detection actually goes today.

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