envdirx
Encrypted environment variables, one file at a time
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Details
- External ID
- 1271503
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- envdirx
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
envdirx is an open-source CLI for environment variables: one file per variable, with optional encryption. Mix plain settings and encrypted secrets in the same directory, keep the private key outside it, and decrypt values when running your command. Built for local POSIX workflows.
Enrichment
- Niche
- PC gaming and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- environment variable encryption for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A POSIX CLI tool that reads/writes files in a directory format and applies standard symmetric/asymmetric encryption (e.g., age, NaCl, or AES-GCM) is easily built in Python, Go, or Rust using standard crypto libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
- Envly · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- SnapEnv · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I just fixed .env once and for all · hn · 2025-11-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- better-env · hn · 2025-11-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Liberty · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Dotenv Mask Editor: No more embarrassing screen leaks of your .env · hn · 2026-01-22 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- KeyEnv · hn · 2026-01-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Environment Variable Checker · hn · 2026-03-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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