Dotenv
Sync .env files
A potential customer opened a GitHub issue at dotenv-vault asking:
How does Dotenv Vault compare to Doppler?
It led to a great conversation discussing their needs for keeping secrets in sync with external teams. They said they wanted the ability to share .env files in Slack, but what they really wanted was to make it easy for their external teams to pull the latest .env file. And they wanted to do so without those external team members being part of their organization. Here's an excerpt:
we often have people coming from other teams to integrate a specific feature they've worked on previously. (Most of the products we build are related in some way, so we often reuse those components). In that case they don't have access to doppler (or aren't using doppler in their team), but still need the configs just to start a local development build...
If you're wondering why all teams don't just use doppler, the first answer is that it is expensive. The second answer is that only recently did one team (the one I'm with) make the leap to use configuration management tools. The other teams have their (manual) ways of managing configs which works for them, so we tend to just keep it that way.
So we built it. But we didn't build the Slack integration. We built a solution to solve their problem.
That's External Share.
Talk to your customers. But get to the root of their problem.
Today is a special number day for Dotenv.
That number is 250.
- 250 GitHub stars
- 250 Twitter followers
- 250,000+ Developer secrets
It's still early, but it is already very exciting to see how much fellow developers are enjoying and using Dotenv Vault.
We have a lot in the works and a lot planned to help developers keep their secrets safe.
Our goal at Dotenv is to improve the .env ecosystem. Nothing more. Nothing less.
A month ago we launched the official VSCode extension.
Today we added support for .flaskenv files.
Pythonistas, enjoy. 🐍
Over the last couple days Dotenv has been featured on SaasHub and Betalist.
The process for both took some time and it's exciting to see them now listed.
SaasHub is here https://www.saashub.com/dotenv-alternatives
Betalist is here https://betalist.com/startups/dotenv-vault
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Congratulations! Any suggestions how to get featured on both? Thanks!!
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Thank you.
For SaasHub, submit and pay the optional fee - $49. Your product will be prioritized and you receive a big green verified badge. Your product will be on there for years, and I think SaasHub will catch steam.
They are doing everything really well - they are just lacking more community involvement, commenting, and reviews. If they get that, then they will probably start ending up in a lot of searches for 'Product VS'. I'll take that bet for $49.
Plus, you are supporting IndieHacker @StanBright by doing so.
For BetaList, submit and mainly wait - 1 month typically. But there's more - as soon as I signed up for https://www.indiehackers.com/post/100-websites-to-submit-your-startup-ab777cd169, Dotenv was listed on BetaList the next day - for a total wait time of just 1 week.
I think these one-off fees to be listed help IndieHackers like ourselves, take some time off your plate, and are better than ads this early. Win-win-win.
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After 9 years, Dotenv reached 16,000 stars on Github! 🌟
Thanks and gratitude to everyone that made this happen. 🙏
That's 9 years of protecting developers' secrets.
What will the future bring next?
It's going to be ⭐️bright⭐️.
I'm a developer, you're a developer. We're both on Indie Hackers.
You're probably like me. You've built countless apps. You've built APIs, done open source, managed databases, done devops, and much more.
You did it for the joy. You did it to put something out in the world. You did it to become good at something. You gained intuition from that. You became good at Product. Now you're trying to make a biz of it. Cheers to you - to us. 🍻
In a later post, I'll share dotenv-vault's origin story but some of it is in this same vein. It's a good story.
Anyways, I'm a developer, you're a developer. Good to be here, Indie Hackers. I'm making dotenv-vault.
https://github.com/dotenv-org/dotenv-vault
Sync your environment variables, securely.
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