KeyChest

The service's basics are stabilized. We can finally start focusing on features, talk to users, fix bugs and keep iterating and improving market fit.
I start enjoying the work again, having touched the bottom (hopefully), things can't really get any worse, only better.

Unfinished, with a lot of features not needed anymore as I had to re-focus the product. At the same time, we moved away from AWS to Digital Ocean.

What followed was 6-8 weeks of a nightmare. The cloud platform was not stable enough to support a database cluster resulting in serious downtimes. The silver lining - we built a robust monitoring of the service.

Believe me, it's impossible to run a company with a co-founder that has got it as a priority .... in their spare time. We started in January and I finally realised - about 9 months too late that this was probably my biggest mistake in running start-ups yet.

The pet project went live. I have invested 3-4 months and paid for a full-stack developer. A nice, simple service we ran for free. It seemed to be getting traction but our actual start-up was heading south. Something that will become official before Christmas. I just can't keep bootstrapping it on my own ...

We struggle to keep our web servers online - our TLS certs keep expiring. We could either just try to fix it with an in-house solution or build something proper. We decided the latter looked exciting and we had experience in encryption and believed we could create something that makes a difference.