Selvum
a password manager designed to outlive its developer
Details
- External ID
- 49328153
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Selvum
- Website domain
- selvum.app
- Launched
- Aug. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.40793010752688175
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- password manager for long-term preservation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a standard password manager UI is vibe-codeable, but implementing a zero-dependency, guaranteed cross-platform offline single-file decryptor using audited cryptographic primitives requires serious security engineering.
What it would actually take: A production version requires building an offline-first desktop/mobile client (e.g., Tauri, Swift/Kotlin) paired with an air-gapped standalone HTML/JS self-decrypting recovery container. The hard part is the cryptographic architecture: implementing PBKDF2/Argon2id, AES-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305, and BIP-39 mnemonic seed derivation correctly without memory leaks or timing vulnerabilities, requiring professional cryptographic security expertise.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: Manual password syncing across devices is a major friction point, Cloud storage is preferred by most users despite security trade-off, Unclear differentiation beyond local-only storage
Feature requests: Automatic cloud sync capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1495 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #853 of 1496 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- Privacy focused client side password generator · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Agent-password · hn · 2026-03-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Brute · github · 2026-09-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 · hn · 2026-05-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Password-generator · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- PasswordSafeCore · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ResetSpy · github · 2026-09-15 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hazzel · hn · 2026-09-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.