EnvKey (YC W18) is a smarter place to store API keys and credentials

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This article didn't dive too deep into what this service offers but every company I have been at has this problem. And each time there seems to be a different way of sharing credentials whether it's passwords, certificates, or keys. What could this service offer that something like a password manager or vault doesn't? Is it the ability to rotate items regularly or expire items? Can I set super granular access for sensitive credentials? These features would be helpful to avoid the headache of managing these kinds of secrets.

Hi, founder of EnvKey here.

Password managers can work for this, but they don't offer anything to help you manage multiple environments, conflict resolution, integration with code, etc. EnvKey tries to make all this seamless by zeroing in on this specific use case.

In comparison to Vault (which I think is great software and has helped to inspire EnvKey's design), EnvKey is just a lot simpler. There's no server management, and configuration of any development or server environment is as simple as setting a single environment variable (ENVKEY=F4U4jGkZuo24zKxxgJsR-4f1g2w3VpHYpYC2x).

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