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Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die (https://github.com)

11 points by jpage2 about 20 hours ago | 7 comments | View on ycombinator

evil-olive about 19 hours ago |

> If you don't log into the app for months

> After 90 days of countdown, 21 days of warnings, and 14 days of grace, the envelope opens

vs

> it needs that company to still exist and be honest on the day it matters

> there's no company in the middle

which is it?

there's no middleman, but also I need to log in to your app regularly to avoid being declared dead?

sebmellen about 19 hours ago |

> What is not done

Rewrite this Readme without Claude?

Also

> There's also no server at all besides a free Cloudflare static site. The encrypted bundles of passwords and photos are in Cloud Kit. Sign-in/identity is a passkey Face ID/Touch ID or a Hardware Key. It's all Crypto Kit, so there's no dependencies required.

To me, this clearly implies that there’s a server involved… Apple’s server. Am I wrong?

itake about 19 hours ago |

> the keys never leave the phones, and the record of who did what can be checked with a script that has no Seal in it.

What happens if someone loses their phone or buys a new phone? What happens if they forget to tell you that they need a new key?

skeledrew about 16 hours ago |

> there's no company in the middle

Yet this seems dependent on Apple's ecosystem. That's a company in the middle.

sicutarinaru about 18 hours ago |

Very coool side project! how are you currently sourcing or curating the ads featured on the wall? is it an automated scraping pipeline or manual submission?