VD
TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix
Details
- External ID
- 49226707
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- VD
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 8, 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
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- password manager and otp authenticator for unix
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI password and OTP manager can be built easily using standard TUI libraries (like bubbletea or ratatui) with existing crypto and TOTP crates/packages.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Poor naming choice - VD acronym has negative connotations (venereal disease), Name lacks clarity
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 152 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmnySSH · hn · 2026-06-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Selvum · hn · 2026-08-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PasswordSafeCore · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Kudu · hn · 2026-08-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- cve-2026-41940-PoC · github · 2026-09-16 · 528 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 · hn · 2026-05-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Brute · github · 2026-09-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Privacy focused client side password generator · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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