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24 alternatives to Masked password helper
Hello, my name is Marcin. I code for a living.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Masked password helper launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…
2022 · stylometry.net · its alternatives →
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Save your passwords and log in to sites with a single click
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Frictionless security: auth & user management with passkeys
2023 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
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Check if your data has been leaked & get a better password
2017 · its alternatives →
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Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets
2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
- 8NM
Every product that allows usernames eventually ships the same broken solution. Someone adds a blacklist. Then a regex. Then another regex copied from StackOverflow. It works just long enough to ship, and then `admin`, `support`, city names, brand impersonation, and obvious slurs start leaking through anyway. Everyone knows it’s fragile, but it gets ignored because "it’s just usernames". I’ve had to rebuild this logic across multiple products, and I got tired of pretending it’s a solved problem. So I built *username.dev*, an API that answers a more useful question than "is this taken?" — it…
Dec 2025 · username.dev · its alternatives →
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Ending the CAPTCHA agony in a unique way.
2013 · areyouahuman.com · its alternatives →
- 10TM
Please give www.keyless.io a try. Let us know what you think. Thank you
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm the creator of epress. After a lot of work, I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to finally share it with you. For years, I've been feeling like a digital tenant on the platforms I use every day. My content, my social graph, my online identity—they were all stored on someone else's servers, subject to their rules, algorithms, and business models. I could be de-platformed, my data could be sold, or an API I relied on could suddenly be put behind a paywall. I looked into existing decentralized alternatives. While many are great projects, I found they often shifted the trust from a big…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ok...even though im a bit sleepy, i would love to get a lot of feedback from people regarding my website...also what are the ways I can protect myself from hackers in this situation?
2011 · ilov3u.net · its alternatives →
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Loopn▲7Hey, Hackers! I am incredibly excited to finally share what we've been building: Loopn. For years, my professional networking experience felt more like a chore than an opportunity. I’m sure many of you can relate. My feed became a constant firehose of noise—off-topic posts, viral debates, and endless content that had little to do with my actual career goals. The very platforms that promised connection were paradoxically making it harder to find the right people. It felt like finding a meaningful connection required sifting through a mountain of this irrelevant content. We were all just…
2025 · loopn.io · its alternatives →
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Anonymous Dead Man's Switchfrom $4.92/mo▲5Hey HN, I'm John from Alcazar. We just launched a Dead Man’s Switch that uses anonymous accounts instead of email+password. I'm a fan of Mullvad and their approach to accounts, so I copied it. But instead of 16 digits (53 bits of entropy), we generate 12 random words from the Monero wordlist (128 bits) and derive the account identifier+"password" using libsodium. The app is built on top of our existing Flare code and infrastructure. It uses SvelteKit, Shadcn, Tailwind CSS on the frontend, and FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery on the backend. It’s hosted on Hetzner and uses Scaleway for sending…
Feb 2026 · alcazarsec.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Halfway through moving to Canada and whilst my conversational French gets me by, I'm absolutely rubbish when someone rattles off phone numbers at full speed (quatre-vingt-dix-neuf anyone?). So I built a virtual pet that thrives on correctly answered number challenges. 20-second drills throughout the day: get them right and Lexie grows, get them wrong and it gets a bit sad (but never dies, this isn't the 90s). Speak, type, or tap your answers. Would love any feedback/bugreports. Or just rant about how the Belgians sensibly say "nonante-neuf" whilst we're stuck with…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Diceware▲10Strong passwords that are easy to remember.
2015 · dicewarepasswords.com · its alternatives →
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Hello. I made this project as an experiment in using key cryptography for user identity in a client server model, and for some future peer to peer projects that I am working on. I am looking for feedback, please let me know what you think. Also, Merry Christmas to HN! :-)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News, I'm the maker of Kopage, a free & self-hosted Website Builder. While working on new, cool features (AI, of course), it would be great to hear some HN feedback :) Thanks, Simon
2024 · kopage.com · its alternatives →
- 20HS
2012 · leebutterman.com · its alternatives →
- 21IB
Hey HN: I'm Chino, the founder of Keyring (https://joinkeyring.com./), it's my first time posting here, nice to meet you all. Keyring lets users safely share subscriptions between household members. No passwords revealed (so that logins don't spread) and create a custom bundle of video, music, and news subscriptions between a group. We're the cable bundle for the digital generation. Previous to founding Keyring, I launched over 160 mobile apps, +50 of which hit the App Store's top charts and have advised two startups to exit, and have angel invested in a few startups, VinoVest…
2020 · its alternatives →
- 22MP
My first "real" web app! I appreciate any comments/suggestions.<p>Also I am available for hire. Contact me at www.sambolgert.com
2012 · se.cret.ly · its alternatives →
- 23CW
Hey HN friends, Just launched my first NoCode web app, maching.ai, built with Bubble. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
2023 · maching.ai · its alternatives →
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A self-hosted dead man
Jan 2026 · lastsignal.app · its alternatives →
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