If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
Details
- External ID
- 46916609
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Feb. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 402
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9878706199460916
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Due to bike-induced concussions, I've been worried for a while about losing my memory and not being able to log back in.I combined shamir secret sharing (hashicorp vault's implementation) with age-encryption, and packaged it using WASM for a neat in-browser offline UX.The idea is that if something happens to me, my friends and family would help me get back access to the data that matters most to me. 5 out of 7 friends need to agree for the vault to unlock.Try out the demo in the website, it runs entirely in your browser!
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- memory loss computer access recovery
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It wraps existing, well-documented cryptography libraries (age-encryption and Shamir's Secret Sharing) into a client-side WASM single-page application, which an AI assistant can assemble quickly.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Bitwarden, pass, Hashicorp Vault
Concerns raised: Hashicorp is devops company, not cryptography specialist, Physical storage vulnerability to house fire or loss, Discovery problem - conservators may not find digital storage locations, PDF scanning in browser version lacks pure-Rust renderer
Feature requests: Biometric authentication (fingerprints, FaceID, EyePrint), Webcam QR code scanning capability, HOTP seed storage for 2FA recovery instead of recovery codes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 82 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
- Legacy Vault · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Vaultly Simple, secure password manager · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust · hn · 2026-03-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- A password system with no database, no sync, and nothing to breach · hn · 2026-02-06 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Memories on Cloud · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Keepr · hn · 2025-11-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Ravenpass · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Vaultis · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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