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Re:1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:41AM (#47147763)
If you are looking for an alternative take a look at Psono. It's open source, only sold B2B so it's free for individuals. It's made in Germany, so a European alternative to the US solutions. It has all the typical features with browser extensions and apps for android and iOS.
Try Psono. You can share any secret via a link https://doc.psono.com/user/basic/sharing.html#with-externals...

You could eather host it yourself or use e.g. https://psono.pw, a free hosted instance of Psono. In regards of trust. Psono is audited every year and the company behind it is ISO27001 certified.

Take a look at Psono. You can share any secret stored there with a link. https://doc.psono.com/user/basic/sharing.html#with-externals...
Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:45PM (#41948334)
Hi, Sascha here, the main developer behind Psono. Psono has been audited multiple times so far, usually on a yearly bases. The last one here https://psono.com/blog/security-audit-2024 (you will also find a link to the audit itself)
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Bitwarden? on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:28PM (#41906925)
Take a look at Psono.

https://psono.com

It's quite similar to bitwarden, open source, has support for all common browsers with browser extensions, autofill and apps for android and iOS. You can host it yourself of use the free hosted version on https://psono.pw A nice goody: Even the enterprise version with all the enterprise features like SAML and so on is free for up to 10 users.

Re:Bitwarden is no longer free software on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:39AM (#41895651)
I hope not to offend anyone, but if you want a real open source password manager take a look at Psono.

I am Sascha, the main developer behind it and we have no VC money nor any plan to do a stunt like this.

Re:Ask HN: How To: Store and share passwords in a company? on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:58AM (#41424709)
Ever tried Psono? (I am Sascha, the main developer behind it)

It has SSO / encryption / self hosting / ... and even the enterprise version is free for up to 10 users and if you need more you only pay €2.5 / user / month.

Re:Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear? on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:28AM (#38085395)
Firefox is a product that hasn't found any way of monitization. Without money they cannot implement the features that chrome offers and web developers use on their web products. As such users will have zillion of little bugs, be annoyed which make them move to chrome and the circle will continue.

Let it die. Let Google be sued and forced to break Chrome away. Let every engine be based on the same engine. Less bugs. Easier for developers. Less user problems.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:31PM (#37646540)
Have you ever tried Psono? (I am the main developer behind it). Its open source, client side encryption, offers free versions for individuals, regular audited and and bootstrapped / no VC money. Would be happy to hear your opinion how it compares to 1password.
I have build Psono, an open source password manager. The company was founded about 2.5 years ago (during the high times of COVID) and it was generating $4k on average directly from start. One should mention that I developed the product for a couple of years before I started the company and already had customers alined before I founded the company. I was running it then for 1.5 years as a side project and then beginning of this year decided to quit my cozy WFH, well paid, not stressfull day job to work full time on it (with recession and mass layoffs in the news).
Re:Bitwarden Design Flaw on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:56AM (#34502491)
If one is looking for an alternative, may I propose Psono? (I am the main developer behind Psono) It doesn't suffer from some of the reported issues and as such uses for example scrypt instead of pbkdf2 for the hashing of the masterpassword and the urls are for example also encrypted. Noteworthy its open source so everyone can take a look at the source code or ask questions in our discord channel. https://discord.gg/RuSvEjj
Re:Ask HN: Are Generated Passphrases Safe? on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:13PM (#34250795)
Maybe you could do OP a favor and redo the calculation, assuming that an attacker knows that he used passphrases. Assuming that an english dictionary has maybe 10.000 meaningful words... And then even worse if you assume that the attacker even knows that he was using Bitwarden for that and an attacker can easily lookup the dictionary that Bitwarden is using. So with maybe 1000 words and 5 words used ...
Funny to see this post here... This is actually the next feature of Psono which can be used for free ... :)
Re:Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ? on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:54PM (#25295702)
And why not Psono? As the main programmer behind Psono it makes me sad not even to see it listed here :(
Re:Is Rust web yet? on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:59AM (#24941295)
So in summary I'd say that HN highly disagrees with the author...
No problem. If you ever plan to move to Psono, then feel free to provide me a dummy export and Ill create you the necessary import functionality.
If you want secure files and notes too then have you ever tried out Psono? The free version supports those and solves most of the Cons (e.g. Psono has no offical helm yet either). (Full disclosure, I am the main developer behind Psono)
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for a Password Manager on Sunday July 12, 2020 @11:26AM (#23812044)
How about Psono? You can host everything on your own (so I assume that would count as "offline), client side encrypted and its free and open source.

Full disclosure I am the main developer behind Psono.

Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:42AM (#22653376)
I am working on my password manager's android app. Implementing Android's autofill capability. Alot of fighting with flutter, android, kotlin, ... The password manager is Psono (https://psono.com) if someone wants to know. I built it myself because a couple of years ago when I started good alternatives did not exist.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager? on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:38AM (#22535785)
Psono would work. Its open source, client side encryption packed with a ton of features... (full disclosure I am the main developer behind it)
Im using https://psono.pw

its free, open source and you can host it easily yourself with docker. Full disclosure, Im the key developer behind it.

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