I think local-first password managers are the way forward. Big tech companies already have way too much power and having them mediate our most important data is a bad precedent to set.
I like that you made this P2P, I designed one that sits on top of sqlite and is 100% local first but is not P2P, take a look if you are interested in some prior art in this space:
I decided to go with native apps all the way, Rust backend and Flutter front-end but kind of regret it now with how the Play/App stores are such a hassle to work with.
> TL;DR: I dislike private-equity and venture funded companies messing with our security, so I created my own Password Manager which is local-first, free, open source and as transparent as it gets.
I do too! And I appreciate your transparency about the vibe coding. But nowhere in the repository that I've found so far do you say who is writing this. For something like a password manager, I kind of need to know who's responsible for it, and who's reviewing the LLM source code, what they've done before, what their business model is, etc.
Fair enough. I like staying pseudonymous on the internet, but I also understand where you're coming from.
My name is Doug, based in Toronto, Canada. I've been a software engineer for over 10 years, working in various startups that handle very sensitive data (fintech, health tech, legal tech.) I've had the opportunity to build security-heavy software and directly handled sensitive info like SIN, bank details, patient histories etc.
Business model: This is essentially a passion project for me that I intend to keep working on - for usage within my family and the OSS community. This version of the app is always going to be free and open source. In the future if this were to ever take off and I now want to earn from it, I would probably do a business version with cloud storage (with self-host option)
The goal is offering an alternative that doesn't enshittify over time, secure, fully sovereign and convenient.
I think local-first password managers are the way forward. Big tech companies already have way too much power and having them mediate our most important data is a bad precedent to set.
I like that you made this P2P, I designed one that sits on top of sqlite and is 100% local first but is not P2P, take a look if you are interested in some prior art in this space:
https://saveoursecrets.com/
I decided to go with native apps all the way, Rust backend and Flutter front-end but kind of regret it now with how the Play/App stores are such a hassle to work with.
Congrats! How’s it compare vs self-hosted vaultwarden?
Really clean concept. Keeping everything entirely on-disk instead of relying on a third-party cloud is something I've been wanting to see more of.
What ai tools are you using if I may ask, genuinely interested.
> TL;DR: I dislike private-equity and venture funded companies messing with our security, so I created my own Password Manager which is local-first, free, open source and as transparent as it gets.
I do too! And I appreciate your transparency about the vibe coding. But nowhere in the repository that I've found so far do you say who is writing this. For something like a password manager, I kind of need to know who's responsible for it, and who's reviewing the LLM source code, what they've done before, what their business model is, etc.
Can you share?
Fair enough. I like staying pseudonymous on the internet, but I also understand where you're coming from.
My name is Doug, based in Toronto, Canada. I've been a software engineer for over 10 years, working in various startups that handle very sensitive data (fintech, health tech, legal tech.) I've had the opportunity to build security-heavy software and directly handled sensitive info like SIN, bank details, patient histories etc.
Business model: This is essentially a passion project for me that I intend to keep working on - for usage within my family and the OSS community. This version of the app is always going to be free and open source. In the future if this were to ever take off and I now want to earn from it, I would probably do a business version with cloud storage (with self-host option)
The goal is offering an alternative that doesn't enshittify over time, secure, fully sovereign and convenient.
How's support for credit card form entries? That's the one thing that makes me miss 1Password as a current keepass user and will make me move over.
You built your own sync engine? Why?