
EnvKey (YC W18) is a smarter place to store API keys and credentials - danenania
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/envkey-wants-to-create-a-smarter-place-to-store-a-companys-api-keys-and-credentials/
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squiguy7
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.

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danenania
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).

