2 min read By NT²
Structured security under three dollars
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A privacy tool for everyday households cannot price itself like enterprise software and still claim to be for everyone.
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Product narratives about structured privacy, local-first vaulting, and encrypted handoffs.
8 min read By NT²
FTS5 for titles; table scan when filters win
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Local search is not one query shape. Free-text wants a full-text index on titles and search text. Category, trash, archive, and similar filters want ordinary table predicates. The product switches strategy so the UI never has to ship the whole vault into memory to feel searchable.
1 min read By NT²
Offline by default is not offline-only
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A vault can work offline and still offer sync. The difference is whether the cloud becomes the owner of the data or just a blind carrier.
8 min read By NT²
Never load the whole vault into Svelte state
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A local vault can hold thousands of structured items without becoming a giant in-memory array. The durable store stays in SQLite. The UI holds only a paged window of lightweight list rows, rendered through a virtual list.
1 min read By NT²
Look at my screen, not my vault
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A friend asks to check the account number. You want to help, but you do not want your unlocked vault in someone else's hands.
10 min read By NT²
The account database must not become a password oracle
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An account table can contain no plaintext vault items and still create a dangerous password-testing surface. We removed the columns that could turn a database copy into an offline guessing or recovery system.
1 min read By NT²
Timed reveal on a video call
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The person on the call needs to confirm one field. Your screen is ready to show an entire document.
9 min read By NT²
One sync hub for one vault identity
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A vault does not need to enter a shared plaintext mailbox to sync. Its public cryptographic identity can name a dedicated edge coordinator that notifies replicas and points them to encrypted frames it cannot open.
1 min read By NT²
Sent to me means ciphertext to you
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The vault app lives at se.nt2.me: sent to me. The phrase is playful, but the product idea is not.
9 min read By NT²
No password reset, by design
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“Contact support to reset your password” sounds reassuring. For an encrypted vault, it also reveals who ultimately controls access. NT² chooses a harder promise: recovery material stays with you, not our help desk.