Truzme is a free, browser-based truss analysis tool. No installation, no account, no paywall — just open it and start analyzing.
Truss calculators were never fun. I wanted one that is.
Every truss app seems to be called "Truss Me", so that name was taken. I wanted a name of my own, with a .com to match.
Say it like "truss me", just with a buzzier z: truzz-me.
And if you look closely, the z is made of three members, sitting somewhere between u and me. Three forces in balance. (OK, I came up with that part afterwards.)
Truzme is used by students in 40+ countries — mostly because a teacher shared a link. It opens instantly on a school laptop, needs no login, and shows right away whether a structure stands or collapses.
See real ways people use Truzme for more.
For teachers
Teaching with Truzme
In class, in assignments, and what happens to student data
I'm Norbert, a software engineer with a structural engineering background — and a dad of boys. I got into trusses through spaghetti bridge competitions and never quite left.
An overnight success, eight years in the making:
My son's first word: stabil — Hungarian for stable
Truss Me v0.1, running on localhost:3000 — my computer only
First version online. Nobody knew about it — no surprise, I never showed it to anyone. Still up, if you're curious
Bought truzme.com as a birthday present for my youngest son. He wasn't impressed. Sat untouched for a year. The domain, not the kid.
New Year's resolution: get sh*t done. Truzme goes public
Thousands of visitors a month, plenty of thank-yous, academic research and a bunch of bananas
Only passion keeps a side project going for eight years.
Got a project sitting in a drawer? Take it out. Eight years is fine, never is not.— Gustave Eiffel, probably
No backend. Your models live in your browser, on your own device. That started as a practical choice — one person can't run servers forever — and turned out to be the best privacy policy there is. There's nothing to leak, and nothing that stops working if a server goes away.
Privacy first, because students use it. No accounts, no cookies, no ads. Anonymous usage statistics only. The details are in the Privacy Policy.
No social features — on purpose. No chat, no comments, no public gallery. Schools block sites for less, and a truss calculator doesn't need them.
Simple over powerful. Every feature has to make sense to a student seeing it for the first time. Plain words, instant results, no solve button.
Free* No paywall. *See the pricing page
For developers
How Truzme is built
The stack, the solver, and why it's all SVG
The best part of running Truzme is seeing what people make with it. A class project, a competition bridge, a cat made of members — send it over. And if something broke, tell me that too.