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A few comments: - I think the pricing structure is way too high. $60/year is quite a bit for what you are offering. At that price, I would rather rent a safety

A few comments: - I think the pricing structure is way too high. $60/year is quite a bit for what you are offering. At that price, I would rather rent a safety deposit box with a bank and just tell my friends and family about it. That way, I can store passwords as well as physical valuables there. - This seems a lot less useful than Lastpass's Emergency Access feature. Once i'm trusting a third party with my secrets, I might as well keep it to just one third party. Again, if the service was cheap enough, then maybe I wouldn't care, but $60/year is a lot. - It also seems like a hassle to update my passwords in passbox every time I change them. I'm going to forget. I need it to sync automatically.

bwanab 7y ago
Are you sure you want to keep valuables in a safe deposit box? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
stevekemp 7y ago
It is actually really hard to rent a safe-deposit box nowadays, because banks just don't offer them.
mrdazm 7y ago
Thanks for your reply! I’m not tied to pricing at all and had to start somewhere. There’s been pretty good discussion on it throughout this post. I’ll consider everything while also taking into account this being the HN crowd. I personally don’t think an actual safety deposit box compares both in terms of ease of updating its contents for digital-related items (which you also mention about Passbox in your last point) and for modifying access to it - physical key distribution and revocation. How is it less useful than emergency access (assuming it’s not just the price which is a work in progress)? Also, I’ve built it to allow for you to segment who can get what so there’s the idea that you can have multiple trusted parties getting access to varying groups of data (or all of them equally). I’m with you in the updating aspect. Currently one could update with csv exports but it’s not the most ideal scenario. I’ve got thoughts on this but nothing ready for public discussion as yet. Thank you again for checking it out and commenting!

bwanab 7y ago

Are you sure you want to keep valuables in a safe deposit box? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...

stevekemp 7y ago

It is actually really hard to rent a safe-deposit box nowadays, because banks just don't offer them.

mrdazm 7y ago

Thanks for your reply! I’m not tied to pricing at all and had to start somewhere. There’s been pretty good discussion on it throughout this post. I’ll consider everything while also taking into account this being the HN crowd. I personally don’t think an actual safety deposit box compares both in terms of ease of updating its contents for digital-related items (which you also mention about Passbox in your last point) and for modifying access to it - physical key distribution and revocation. How is it less useful than emergency access (assuming it’s not just the price which is a work in progress)? Also, I’ve built it to allow for you to segment who can get what so there’s the idea that you can have multiple trusted parties getting access to varying groups of data (or all of them equally). I’m with you in the updating aspect. Currently one could update with csv exports but it’s not the most ideal scenario. I’ve got thoughts on this but nothing ready for public discussion as yet. Thank you again for checking it out and commenting!