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FOR STARTUPS

Password manager for startups (5-person, indie, bootstrapped, early-stage SaaS)

Founders share Stripe restricted keys, AWS root, GitHub deploy bots, and the one Cloudflare login that holds the domain. Stop pasting them into Slack.

Start free — under 60 seconds See Family pricing
YOU PROBABLY DEAL WITH
  • · Sharing AWS root credentials in a 1Password account someone created in 2021
  • · Pasting Stripe restricted keys into Slack DMs, then trying to delete them
  • · No idea who has the Cloudflare login that holds your domain
  • · Paying $20+/mo for a tool built for 200 people you do not have yet
  • · A new contractor needs three logins for two weeks and no clean way to revoke after
CREDENTIALS YOU'LL ACTUALLY STORE
  • AWS root account, billing user, IAM rescue
  • Stripe — restricted keys, dashboard login
  • GitHub — engineering org owner, deploy bot PAT
  • Cloudflare — DNS + Workers dashboard
  • PostgreSQL — production primary, read replica
  • Vercel / Render / Fly — deploy tokens
  • Sentry / Linear / Notion — workspace owner
  • Brex / Mercury — corporate cards, billing portal

Password manager for 5-person startup

That's exactly the size LitePassword is shaped around. Same zero-knowledge encryption, same three roles, but priced for startups — not enterprise. The Family plan covers you, and you can start on Free today.

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Password manager for indie hacker team

That's exactly the size LitePassword is shaped around. Same zero-knowledge encryption, same three roles, but priced for startups — not enterprise. The Family plan covers you, and you can start on Free today.

Try free →

Password manager for early-stage SaaS team

That's exactly the size LitePassword is shaped around. Same zero-knowledge encryption, same three roles, but priced for startups — not enterprise. The Family plan covers you, and you can start on Free today.

Try free →

Password manager for bootstrapped startup

That's exactly the size LitePassword is shaped around. Same zero-knowledge encryption, same three roles, but priced for startups — not enterprise. The Family plan covers you, and you can start on Free today.

Try free →

Password manager for solo founder and contractor

That's exactly the size LitePassword is shaped around. Same zero-knowledge encryption, same three roles, but priced for startups — not enterprise. The Family plan covers you, and you can start on Free today.

Try free →

The startup credential mess

Eight months in, every startup has the same situation: AWS root in someone’s personal 1Password from a previous job, Stripe keys in a Slack thread from last Tuesday, the Cloudflare login on a sticky note in the founder’s Notion, and no clean way to bring a new contractor on without giving them everything.

The right time to fix this is now — week three, not month eight. LitePassword exists to make that ten minutes of work instead of an afternoon.

What to set up first

Make four vaults:

  1. Production credentials. AWS root, Stripe restricted keys, database primary, deploy bots. Admin + tech founder only.
  2. Marketing & ads. Google Ads, Meta Business, analytics, mailer. Marketer + founder.
  3. Tooling. Linear, Notion, Figma, GitHub org owner, Slack admin. Everyone with the role they need.
  4. Personal vault. Auto-created. Each member’s own.

Roles to assign:

  • Founders: Admin.
  • Engineers: Manager on Production + Tooling, View only on Marketing.
  • Contractors: View only on the specific vault for the project. Revoke when done.

Why the Family plan fits

$5/mo flat for up to 5 users. That is one dollar per person. The price doesn’t scale per-seat like 1Password ($7.99/user) or Dashlane ($5/user), so you can bring on a new contractor for a two-week sprint without flinching at the line item.

When you cross 5 users, jump to Business at $10/mo flat (capped at 12). At that point you’re probably ready to think about more than just credentials anyway.

Stop pasting into Slack

This is the single highest-leverage habit change. Every credential sent in Slack lives forever — in workspace exports, in integrations, in the backups. “Delete” doesn’t delete. Move every shared secret into a vault, grant per-user access, and use the one-click copy when you need the value.

For the specific case of sharing a Stripe restricted key with a developer, see How to share a Stripe API key with a developer safely.

FAQ

Common questions from startups

Why is LitePassword good for startups specifically?

Three reasons. (1) Pricing is sized for under-12 teams — $5/mo for the first 5 users. (2) The role model is small — Admin, Manager, View only — so you do not spend founder time wiring permissions. (3) Recovery key model means no admin reset back door, which matters when a founder leaves and you do not want lingering access.

What if I am a solo founder with one contractor?

Use the Family plan ($5/mo total, up to 5 users). Create a "Production credentials" shared vault, invite the contractor as View only, grant per-vault access only to what they need. When the engagement ends, revoke their account — vault keys rotate automatically.

We bootstrap. Is there a free option?

Yes — 1 user, up to 5 secrets, free forever. Useful for a solo founder who has not hired yet. Upgrade to Family ($5/mo) the day you bring on a second person.

How do we share the AWS root account safely?

Put it in a Production credentials vault, grant access only to the 1-2 founders who need it. Set up a YubiKey for the root account MFA in addition to the vault. The vault stores the password and recovery codes — the YubiKey makes sure stealing the vault is not enough.

What happens when a founder leaves?

Open the Users page → Revoke Access on their row. Vault keys for every vault they touched rotate automatically. Their cached copies (if any) become undecryptable. Do this the same day they leave, not three weeks later.

Does this work for an indie hacker working alone?

Yes. Use the free plan to start, upgrade to Personal ($1.50/mo) if you need more than 5 secrets. You get the same encryption, same recovery key, same vault model.

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