Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I just (like today) started working on an open-source, self-hosted, e2e encrypted, and free password manager.

I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.

The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.

Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords

My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.

LMK what you think!

Honest question, what's wrong with Vaultwarden?

I had an idea for this you might want to consider adding: store the passwords/keys in the client, no server… but then shamir’s secret sharing to shard them along your contacts.

So when you open the app it asks you to choose five (?) friends you trust (who don’t know each other) from your contacts and it’ll ask them to install the app to help you store your secrets.

Then if you ever lose your phone or whatever when you reinstall the app you just have to remember at least three (?) of the five people you trusted and then will be able to restore your keys!

It would also ping the other contacts when open to make sure they still have your shards and redistribute them as you add/change/delete them.

Good luck!