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Simple, self-hosted, password and credential management for teams

15 points by chunkyslink 15y ago

samarudge 15y ago
My only worry about software working with this model (one time fee, download install etc.) is the source code. Things like this, particularly, will need to be easily modified and extended to fit into certain environments, and with no sample source code it's very hard to know how easy that will be. Obviously don't open-source, that kills your business model, but maybe it would be nice to provide a few sample files, or even a stripped-down "basic" version, just so we can get an idea of your coding styles and see if we'd be able to extend the code to fulfill our needs. This isn't a specific criticism of this software, which looks cool and seems to provide a lot of the features of the more expensive enterprise-y solutions at a much more friendly price point, it's just a general criticism of software on this model.
nodesocket 15y ago
Great looking landing page guys. Looks similar to Stripe. :) Amazing interface, really slick jQuery slide effects, and just a beautiful UX. Why though, not make it SaaS?
- drewjoh 15y ago
  My thought would be security/responsibility/liability.
  - nodesocket 15y ago
    Yeah, but honestly SSL, and AES should be sufficient enough right? Also, if you buy it yourself, you have to be sure you can secure it and go through the hassle of doing SSL, etc. Wouldn't it be nice, if they just take care of security for you?
    - drewjoh 15y ago
      Yeah, it would be nice. Maybe they don't want to go through the hassle any more than you do. :P
      - nodesocket 15y ago
        Drew, did you build/help with it? If so, you guys did a great job on the UX, honestly really beautiful work. Getting a shout-out on twitter. :)
        StavrosK 15y ago
        Wow, how did you make the thing scroll endlessly?
nakkiel 15y ago
One of the common use case is not addressed: groups. You most certainly don't want all your team-mates to get access to all the passwords stored in there. Another very common use-case is for storing/downloading SSH keys. More field types would be nice; lists immediately come to mind for the example State field. The fact that every password is decrypted and loaded in the UI doesn't make me feel confident. An On-Demand thing would make more sense. But it's a cool thing to bootstrap and with the look of it, it should do ok.
jayhollywood 15y ago
Hey guys, thanks for the comments on our app. Nakkiel, we'll be adding groups in the future, we know how useful this will be for lots of users (ourselves included). To confirm, every password isn't decrypted and loaded in the UI, it is in-fact on demand and passwords are only decrypted when you hover over their respective field. nodesocket1, we considered SaaS but feel this model allows more flexibility and control for the end user, and there's no ongoing costs.
rob-brown 15y ago
I'd really like to buy this. I like the front end and based on the demo, it looks really great. However, I haven't ponied up my money for two reasons: 1) "The installer will take you through license validation, database connection and user setup" This sounds like samarudge is right and that this software is locked down. For a web based password manager, this is an extremely bad idea. I need the software to be flexible and open to development to fit my own environment. 2) I don't think that this software supports LDAP. In my perfect world, I'd like a fast, easy to use frontend (like simplesafe.net has) along with a foundation in mySQL (check) and exceptionally easy to use cross-functionality with LDAP. Nearly every authentication system works with LDAP. Without these 2 issues solved, Simplesafe.net isn't any better than using keepass. If these two issues are solved, I'll pony up $45 right away and would be happy to pay upwards of $100 for easy-to-use LDAP.

15 points by chunkyslink 15y ago

My only worry about software working with this model (one time fee, download install etc.) is the source code. Things like this, particularly, will need to be easily modified and extended to fit into certain environments, and with no sample source code it's very hard to know how easy that will be. Obviously don't open-source, that kills your business model, but maybe it would be nice to provide a few sample files, or even a stripped-down "basic" version, just so we can get an idea of your coding styles and see if we'd be able to extend the code to fulfill our needs. This isn't a specific criticism of this software, which looks cool and seems to provide a lot of the features of the more expensive enterprise-y solutions at a much more friendly price point, it's just a general criticism of software on this model.

nodesocket 15y ago

Great looking landing page guys. Looks similar to Stripe. :) Amazing interface, really slick jQuery slide effects, and just a beautiful UX. Why though, not make it SaaS?

drewjoh 15y ago
My thought would be security/responsibility/liability.
- nodesocket 15y ago
  Yeah, but honestly SSL, and AES should be sufficient enough right? Also, if you buy it yourself, you have to be sure you can secure it and go through the hassle of doing SSL, etc. Wouldn't it be nice, if they just take care of security for you?
  - drewjoh 15y ago
    Yeah, it would be nice. Maybe they don't want to go through the hassle any more than you do. :P
    - nodesocket 15y ago
      Drew, did you build/help with it? If so, you guys did a great job on the UX, honestly really beautiful work. Getting a shout-out on twitter. :)
      - StavrosK 15y ago
        Wow, how did you make the thing scroll endlessly?

nakkiel 15y ago

One of the common use case is not addressed: groups. You most certainly don't want all your team-mates to get access to all the passwords stored in there. Another very common use-case is for storing/downloading SSH keys. More field types would be nice; lists immediately come to mind for the example State field. The fact that every password is decrypted and loaded in the UI doesn't make me feel confident. An On-Demand thing would make more sense. But it's a cool thing to bootstrap and with the look of it, it should do ok.

jayhollywood 15y ago

Hey guys, thanks for the comments on our app. Nakkiel, we'll be adding groups in the future, we know how useful this will be for lots of users (ourselves included). To confirm, every password isn't decrypted and loaded in the UI, it is in-fact on demand and passwords are only decrypted when you hover over their respective field. nodesocket1, we considered SaaS but feel this model allows more flexibility and control for the end user, and there's no ongoing costs.

rob-brown 15y ago

I'd really like to buy this. I like the front end and based on the demo, it looks really great. However, I haven't ponied up my money for two reasons: 1) "The installer will take you through license validation, database connection and user setup" This sounds like samarudge is right and that this software is locked down. For a web based password manager, this is an extremely bad idea. I need the software to be flexible and open to development to fit my own environment. 2) I don't think that this software supports LDAP. In my perfect world, I'd like a fast, easy to use frontend (like simplesafe.net has) along with a foundation in mySQL (check) and exceptionally easy to use cross-functionality with LDAP. Nearly every authentication system works with LDAP. Without these 2 issues solved, Simplesafe.net isn't any better than using keepass. If these two issues are solved, I'll pony up $45 right away and would be happy to pay upwards of $100 for easy-to-use LDAP.