I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

I'm not sure what's different about my setup (just a Vaultwarden deployment hosted behind Tailscale, connected using the official Chrome extension and Android app), but I've never once encountered the long unlock delays due to sync attempts. It's always unlocked instantly. And the app is frequently unable to connect since I'm not always on the tablet.

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a bunch of CRUD UIs.

I know I'm being "that guy" so tell me where this gets more complex than I think.

I use Vaultwarden because I need something cross-platform (macOS and Linux) and with support for passkeys.

The idea of using different storage methods for different categories of passwords is very interesting. Maybe I don’t need rbw (the rust reimplementation of bitwarden CLI) in my server and something simpler/different could do the job