Hacker News: chickahoona

New comment by chickahoona in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

chickahoona — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:41:46 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people?"

chickahoona — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:18:54 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people?"

chickahoona — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:17:24 +0000

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...

New comment by chickahoona in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

chickahoona — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:45:36 +0000

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)

New comment by chickahoona in "Bitwarden is no longer free software"

chickahoona — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:39:35 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"

chickahoona — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:58:47 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?"

chickahoona — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:28:11 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager"

chickahoona — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:31:20 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

chickahoona — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:00:26 +0000

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).

New comment by chickahoona in "Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations"

chickahoona — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:56:49 +0000

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

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: Are Generated Passphrases Safe?"

chickahoona — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:13:52 +0000

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 ...

The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life (not DNA;D)

chickahoona — Fri, 07 May 2021 11:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_levin_the_electrical_blueprints_that_orchestrate_life#t-107605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074862

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chickahoona in "Show HN: SharedOTP – Shared two-factor authentication mechanism"

chickahoona — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:02:05 +0000

Funny to see this post here... This is actually the next feature of Psono which can be used for free ... :)

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ?"

chickahoona — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:54:23 +0000

And why not Psono? As the main programmer behind Psono it makes me sad not even to see it listed here :(

New comment by chickahoona in "Is Rust web yet?"

chickahoona — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:59:46 +0000

So in summary I'd say that HN highly disagrees with the author...

Psono – open-source password manager with new website

chickahoona — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://psono.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340807

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chickahoona in "Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams"

chickahoona — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:01:16 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams"

chickahoona — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 06:44:28 +0000

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)

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: Recommendations for a Password Manager"

chickahoona — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:26:22 +0000

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.

New comment by chickahoona in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

chickahoona — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 07:42:38 +0000

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.