Privacy-first, repairable, sustainable BDSM electronics — built by a tiny team that believes great gear shouldn't cost a subscription.
We're a small team making affordable, high-quality gear for real people. That means no surveillance, no disposable junk built to break, and absolutely no paywalled features for hardware you already own.
No cloud required. No accounts. Only fully anonymised telemetry — and only when you're connected online. Your play stays between you and your hardware.
Every product is designed to be opened, fixed, and extended. Schematics, firmware updates, and eventually full open-source — because you own what you buy.
Longer-lasting products mean less waste. We ship with minimal packaging, use repairable design patterns, and avoid planned obsolescence.
High-quality BDSM hardware shouldn't require a premium membership. We keep margins honest and features free.
Tired of complicated knots, messy ropes, or the constant fear of getting stuck? DegenShackles changes the game — electromagnetic, customizable, and built for people who want real control over their experience.
A word before you dive in. DegenShackles is a DIY electronics kit — all components included, assembly takes most people under an hour. This is an experimental product; it hasn't gone through CE, FCC, or similar certification processes. If you're comfortable with basic electronics and understand you're building something yourself, you'll be completely fine. We just want you going in with clear eyes.
We believe that once you've bought a physical product, you shouldn't have to keep paying for it to work. A subscription is only justified when there are genuine, ongoing costs — like compute, storage, or active services.
We use AI thoughtfully — as a lever for a small team, not a shortcut around the humans who give our work its character.
Boilerplate code, regex (after all — nobody truly understands regex), quick documentation drafts, and general "I need this boring thing done" tasks. It's a pair programmer for the dull parts.
Every sticker, graphic, and illustration was drawn by a real person. The majority of our code was written by a real human. Architecture decisions, product vision, and creative direction — all ours.
We won't claim an AI designed our hardware when a human engineer did. We won't pretend generated images are original art. Honesty about what's human-made is part of who we are.
We'll be upfront: most of the styling and UI? That was heavily AI-assisted, because we don't yet have a dedicated UX/UI person on the team. We're working on it.
We're based in Poland — a small group of makers who wanted to create BDSM gear that's actually good. Affordable, privacy-respecting, and built to last. We don't do investors, we don't do dark patterns.