By Maidul Islam & Tony Dang
Teams shared secrets via .env files, Slack messages, and spreadsheets. HashiCorp Vault was powerful but incredibly complex to set up.
Launched in 2022. Y Combinator backed. Grew rapidly among developer teams who needed secret management without Vault's complexity.
Secret management should be simple and developer-friendly, not a DevOps project that takes weeks to set up.
To be the standard way every developer team manages secrets.