hush
Open-source working beta for private email on Stellar: encrypted messages, sender-controlled inbox policies, optional postage, and verifiable delivery receipts.
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Details
- External ID
- 1409418137
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- hush
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 132
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8995314940135346
- Tags
- anti-spam, beta, email, encrypted-messaging, open-source, privacy, soroban, stellar, web3
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer infrastructure and networking utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- private encrypted email on the stellar blockchain
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The client UI and standard cryptography can be vibe-coded, but integrating secure on-chain cryptographic email protocols with Stellar smart contracts/transactions and decentralized storage requires specialized Web3/crypto expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires client-side asymmetric encryption (e.g., NaCl/libsodium or Web Crypto) coupled with Stellar Soroban smart contracts or native Stellar memos for delivery verification, micro-payments ('postage'), and access policies. Off-chain storage like IPFS or encrypted relays must handle large message payloads. The difficult aspects are ensuring end-to-end cryptographic privacy without metadata leakage on a public ledger, handling key discovery/revocation, and managing zero-gas transaction relaying.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #62 of 664 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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