Show HN: Cryptex Vault – A password manager designed to outlive its creator

Hello everyone!<p>About four years ago, a password manager I've used and depended on has been acquired and soon after, it was shut down. If anyone remembers MYKI, it was a password manager that stood out at the time. It didn't require an email address and a password for registration and it synchronized credentials peer-to-peer. It was quite handy so a couple of my friends and I got hooked, and were using it up until the last day it was online.<p>The thing was, I didn't want to change password managers to other options available at the time, none felt right - I wanted to stay.. So I did what any sensible engineer would do 4 years ago and I wrote my own.<p>I moved all my credentials there as soon as I had a first version ready. It was ugly (God knows I had UI/UX skills to learn), but it worked.<p>Soon after, the same friends that were using MYKI switched over to using Cryptex Vault. I get why, we had the same P2P synchronization across devices, it was simple and didn't try to be the most-feature complete application out there - it did the job. That was an exciting moment. So exciting, in fact, that I've posted to HN to tell people about it. At the time, I had a weird <i>thing</i> for decentralization so I called it a "Fully Decentralized Password Manager".<p>Three years go by, I keep maintaining the project, with no real intention of proper marketing or polishing. At one point I checked the usage and figured out that a handful of people (and their families) were still using Cryptex Vault as their password manager.<p>Three months ago, I left my comfy job as lead software engineer at a local company to dedicate time to a company I called Cryptex Industries. Polished Cryptex Vault, cleaned it up, made it open source, started providing Docker images for self-hosting and included some of the features I've only used internally (ssh-agents). That way Cryptex Industries need not remain operational for users to have a path to continued use!<p>To make the project commercially viable, I started offering managed services through the Online Services plan. By using Online Services you remove the operational burden of self-hosting and infrastructure maintenance from yourself while still getting the same benefits: Managed backup storage, synchronization between devices, sharing, ssh-agents, device management. It is convenience, not access to core features. The core application is free and you can use it with no subscriptions of any kind, whatsoever.<p>It's P2P synchronized, with industry-standard crypto choices including post-quantum primitives for synchronization - <a href="https://www.cryptex-vault.com/docs/cryptography" rel="nofollow">https://www.cryptex-vault.com/docs/cryptography</a> It has importers for popular password managers, along with autofill for chromium browsers (firefox is a todo, yell and I'll get on it). As for the platforms, there is a web app, an android application and an ssh-agent for linux (will put it up on AUR when they open up registrations again).<p>Feel free to try it out (there is a 14-day trial for managed services!), self-host it or break it.<p>I would appreciate your thoughts on this and I wish you a nice friday!