Saculsan Ventures
A Filipino technology company building mobile products for everyday Filipino life. Owned and founded by Alwin Saculsan.
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Saculsan Ventures is building a growing lineup of apps for families, commuters, and businesses — starting with FamilyBeacon, and eight more already in development, and soon more to come.
Every app we build orbits the same mission — building things that actually help everyday Filipino life.
A Filipino technology company building mobile products for everyday Filipino life. Owned and founded by Alwin Saculsan.
Barangay places, Taglish notifications, GCash & Maya payouts.
We design, build, and ship quickly across our whole product lineup.
No ads, no data resale. Funded by honest subscriptions.
FamilyBeacon is first, with eight more apps already in development.
FamilyBeacon is our flagship — a family location and safety app built for the Philippines.
FamilyBeacon
In development
A family location-sharing and safety app built for the Philippines — real-time Circle location, one-tap SOS, driving reports, and OFW Mode for families with a loved one working abroad. No ads, ever.
Built for how Filipino families really live — barangay places, Taglish alerts, and a map that doesn't eat your battery.
See everyone in your Circle, with a clear "last confirmed" time so you always know how fresh a pin is.
Save Home, School, Work or anywhere else and get an alert on arrival and departure.
One tap alerts your whole Circle. Free on every tier, forever — safety is never paywalled.
The opposite of SOS. One tap tells everyone you're okay, with a timestamp.
Stay connected to family working abroad without draining their data or battery.
Location polling adapts to whether a phone is moving or sitting still.
Every claim below is either how FamilyBeacon is built or something we've committed to in writing. Where we can't promise something yet, we say so instead of staying quiet.
Every query is restricted at the database level to Circles you actually belong to — not filtered in the app, where a bug could leak past it. Your family's data is unreachable from anyone else's account by design, not by convention.
A parent ticking a box isn't enough. Nothing is collected from a child's device until that device shows a plain-language notice and the child acknowledges it. Until then they appear as pending — no pin, no battery, no location.
Every member's own screen shows who viewed their location and when. Tracking that only works one way breeds resentment; families stay honest with each other when the visibility runs both directions.
On every tier, including the free one. Subscriptions are the entire business model — which is exactly why the paid tiers exist. Providers who help run the app (maps, push, SMS) are each named in our Privacy Policy. Processing to make a feature work is not selling, and we disclose both.
Data is encrypted at rest. We also won't pretend it's stored locally: our hosting provider's available regions likely don't include the Philippines, so your data is probably held abroad. We say that plainly in the Privacy Policy and will name the destination country before a single real family's data is stored.
SOS and crash detection alert your Circle — they are not emergency services, and we won't market them as if they were. Alerts can fail or arrive late depending on signal, battery and device settings. In a real emergency, always call 911 first.
FamilyBeacon is still in development, so the above describes the app as designed and built, not a service already operating at scale. We're designing to the Philippine Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) and the National Privacy Commission's guidance on children's data. Read the full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service — both are pre-launch drafts and marked as such.
Yes — a parent or legal guardian may consent to their own minor child's location being shared within a family Circle. FamilyBeacon is built around that: you attest to guardianship when adding a child, the child sees a plain-language notice on their own device before any location is collected, and we store a timestamped record of that consent. We're designing to the Philippine Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) and the National Privacy Commission's guidance on children's data.
Leaving a Circle is never silent. On the Family Pro tier, a member's request to leave creates a pending request the Circle Owner reviews, rather than taking effect immediately. You'll also be alerted if location sharing is switched off or the app is tampered with. FamilyBeacon is built to keep families honest with each other, not to be undetectable.
This is the problem we care most about. FamilyBeacon adapts how often it checks location based on whether a phone is actually moving or sitting still — a phone on a desk doesn't need the same update rate as one in a jeepney. It's the single biggest complaint about apps in this category, and the main thing we're building differently.
No. We do not sell your data and we will never show ads — on any tier, including the free one. FamilyBeacon is funded by subscriptions, which is exactly why the paid tiers exist. Some data is necessarily processed by service providers to make the app work at all — map rendering, push notifications, SMS delivery — and every one of them is named in our Privacy Policy. Processing to run a feature is a different thing from selling, and we disclose both.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. SOS and crash detection are best-effort features that alert your Circle — they are not emergency services. In an emergency, always call 911 directly. Alerts can fail to send or arrive late due to network conditions, device settings, or location accuracy.
Free forever for the basics, including SOS. Family Plus is ₱199/month and Family Pro is ₱299/month, billed per Circle rather than per person — one subscription covers the whole family. Billing runs through the App Store and Google Play.
FamilyBeacon is in active development, with beta planned for early 2027 and public launch to follow, Philippines first. Join the list below and you'll hear from us before anyone else.
Join the launch list and we'll email you when the beta opens. No spam, no sharing your address with anyone, unsubscribe any time.
We'll only use your email to tell you about FamilyBeacon. See our Privacy Policy.
FamilyBeacon is first, not last. We're building across navigation, sales, and everyday life in the Philippines.
Turn-by-turn navigation you barely have to touch — Waze-style routing and traffic, 90% hands-free.
Instantly geocode the exact latitude and longitude of any place — fast, accurate location tagging.
Sales Force Automation for field salesmen — route planning, account booking, and visit tracking.
A full customer purchase record (CPR) — every order and interaction in one place, at a glance.
Built for commuters — find the nearest tricycle, jeep, bus, or other terminal near you.
Attendance tracking for office-based and outbased staff — merchandisers, salesmen, and field teams.
A daily to-do list with sub-tasks under every item — tick off each step to clear the main one. Track your daily cash in and out in the same place.
Point your camera at a meal and get its calories — no manual logging, no searching a food database.
We also accept customized app development — tell us what you need and we'll help you build it.
Talk to us about a custom appWhether it's about FamilyBeacon, one of the apps still in development, a custom build for your business, or something else entirely — we'd like to hear from you.
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