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Re: Show HN: Infisical – open-source secret management platform

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wait, you need to pay to be able to use a yubi key for two factor?

We don't have support for this yet. Would you say you think this should be a free feature?

I certainly wouldn't use the product if it isn't a free feature

Re: Show HN: Infisical – open-source secret management platform

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This is really cool! We’re using SOPS right now which works alright, but it’s very easy to leak secrets and it’s a pain to sync updates as everything has to go through Git.

Can we use Infisical without the SDK? How would that work in a Node project?

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This is really cool! We’re using SOPS right now which works alright, but it’s very easy to leak secrets and it’s a pain to sync updates as everything has to go through Git. Can we use Infisical without the SDK? How would that work in a Node project?

Yes, definitely! If you're injecting secrets as environment variables into your apps, then you can just use the Infisical CLI (https://infisical.com/docs/cli/usage), it will automatically inject your secrets during local development, in CI/CD, some production envs, etc.

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Looks like a great platform, congrats!

Have you gotten feedback on the name, Infisical?

If a user is at a conference or on an online meeting and they mention your company to another user, they will likely have to spell the name out. Just hearing the name, it would be hard to know how to spell/search for it.

It is also not very memorable. A month later if I wanted to recall the name of your company I would likely have a bit of a hard time recalling the exact name.

In branding, simple is always better.

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Looks like a great platform, congrats! Have you gotten feedback on the name, Infisical? If a user is at a conference or on an online meeting and they mention your company to another user, they will likely have to spell the name out. Just hearing the name, it would be hard to know how to spell/search for it. It is also not very memorable. A month later if I wanted to recall the name of your company I would likely have…

Yeah, we actually get feedback about this pretty often. At this point (because Infisical is used by many thousands of developers), it might hurt more in terms of recognition, SEO, etc. Some companies do it when they are much more advanced (Fb -> Meta, Square -> Block) but I think it requires a large marketing investment.

To make it easier to find us, we have purchased a number of other domains like http://inphysical.com/ and made them redirect to our main website.

Re: Show HN: Infisical – open-source secret management platform

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This is really cool! We’re using SOPS right now which works alright, but it’s very easy to leak secrets and it’s a pain to sync updates as everything has to go through Git. Can we use Infisical without the SDK? How would that work in a Node project?

Yes, definitely! If you're injecting secrets as environment variables into your apps, then you can just use the Infisical CLI ( https://infisical.com/docs/cli/usage ), it will automatically inject your secrets during local development, in CI/CD, some production envs, etc.

Sweet. Thanks for the fast response.

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I see you limit the number of projects on the team tier. What is a "project" in your terms?

It really depends on how users structure their secrets. Projects typically correspond to a single app. For example, APP_X can a project and it will have a set of environments (dev, staging, prod, etc) and within each environment they would be able to add folders for more depth like (frontend, backend, microservice_y, etc)
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