I just fixed .env once and for all
better-env
Details
- External ID
- 46026272
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I just fixed .env once and for all
- Website domain
- better-env.dev
- Launched
- Nov. 23, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4421397379912664
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
.env files have always felt archaic, insecure, clunky and honestly just not fun to work with. I see my friends (and myself) accidentally committing them all the time. Managing secrets across projects becomes a mess of copy-pasting keys into scattered env files with no real way to sync anything.So I built better-env: a secure, developer-friendly alternative to .env.Store your secrets once in a global encrypted store, and load them per-project at runtime.I’d love feedback on whether this feels useful beyond solo devs, and what you’d want for teams or CI setups.Fully open source: https://github.com/HarishChandran3304/better-env
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- secure environment variable management for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI tool combining standard OpenPGP encryption libraries with environment injection via subshells (`child_process.spawn`).
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: age (encryption tool), GPG, sops
Concerns raised: GPG is outdated and difficult to use, Requires all developers to install and set up the tool
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #90 of 148 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SecretEnv · hn · 2026-05-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Liberty · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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