I've been building things for a while now. Not always finishing them - anyone who knows me knows that story. Nyura was supposed to be a Discord bot, then a full platform, then it became something I had to step back from because I burned out trying to make it everything at once. That's a pattern I recognised too late.
LuniVex came from a different place. It started with Modrinth's Theseus launcher - open source, clean codebase, good foundation. But it shipped with PostHog analytics, Sentry crash reporting, an Intercom SDK. Things that phone home. Things you don't notice until you look. I looked.
The fork started as a personal thing. Strip the telemetry, rebrand it, make it feel like mine. Violet palette instead of green. My own Discord Rich Presence app ID. The Modrinth news panel gone. The fundraiser banners gone. Just the launcher, doing what a launcher should do.
Then Modrinth got acquired. Spark Universe, February 2026. I'm not going to say that's why LuniVex exists - the fork was already running before that happened. But it did make the independence angle feel more real, not just an aesthetic choice. When the thing you forked gets bought, the fact that the license lets you keep going stops being theoretical.
So that's what LuniVex is. A personal launcher that got serious. Built by one person with help from Arqe on macOS, built openly under GPLv3, no investors, no roadmap designed to attract funding. The first public build isn't out yet. When it is, it'll be here.
I'm not trying to compete with the Modrinth app or replace CurseForge. I'm just building something I'd actually want to use, and making it available for anyone who wants the same thing.