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Latchroom
Share team passwords and secrets by folder, with access rules and an audit trail
- Score
- 45
- confidence 66
- Evidence
- 9
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 5
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2005
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Teams set up vault structure and permissions at desks, but retrieve credentials on phones and laptops throughout the workday across devices. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Folders
3 need rotation42 secrets
About this appAI proposal
Latchroom is a shared vault for small and mid-sized teams. Put logins, API keys and config secrets into folders, give each person or group the access they need, and everyone gets the current value on phone, laptop and browser. No more secrets in flat files or chat threads.
It is built for the team lead who pays and administers, not for the individual user. Onboarding and offboarding take a few clicks, every view and change is logged, and expiring shares cover contractors. Teams get a ready alternative to building their own in-house tool.
Unlike a personal password manager with team features added on, Latchroom starts from folders, roles and handover. It also handles non-login secrets such as env files and keys, which sit awkwardly in a consumer-style vault.
- Tagline
- A shared vault your whole team can actually use.
- Voice
- CalmPlainTrustworthy
- Why this name
- A latch is a simple, familiar way to keep a door shut yet open for the right people. A room suggests a shared space for a team.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Folder-level access
Grant view, use or edit rights per folder to people or groups. Change a role once and every secret inside follows.
No member yet
Synced on every device
Installs as an app on phone and desktop and works in any browser. Updates reach everyone, so nobody re-enters a changed password.
No member yet
Audit trail
See who opened, copied, changed or shared each secret and when. Filter by person, folder or date and export for reviews.
No member yet
Offboarding checklist
When someone leaves, see every folder they could reach and which secrets to rotate. Mark each one done.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
#1F5C4APine · primary#F6F1E7Parchment · surface#1B2620Ink Green · text#D9822BAmber · accent#3B6EA5Harbor · data
Typography
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Latchroom
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A shared vault your whole team can actually use.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no usable competitor price: 1Password's verified pricing page lists prices on request. These tiers are a starting point to test, billed per team rather than per seat.
Starter
Free
- Up to 3 members
- Shared folders
- 30-day audit log
Team
$24 a month
- Up to 15 members
- Folder roles and groups
- 1-year audit log
- Expiring shares
- Offboarding checklist
Organization
$79 a month
- Up to 75 members
- Audit export
- SSO sign-in
- Unlimited audit history
- Priority support
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Users invite others. A team lead invites colleagues to folders. Each invitee sets up an account to open shared secrets and sees how access and audit work. Contractors get expiring shares.
- Do they become customers?
- Invitees are in teams that may need their own vault, but most will only be members of someone else's. Test whether invitees from other companies, such as contractors, start their own paid teams.
- First customers
- Engineering leads at software teams of 5 to 30 people who now keep secrets in flat files or chat and have no in-house tool.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News: Post a Show HN and join threads on team secret sharing, offering a free Starter team.
- Developer communities: Answer questions in DevOps and startup forums about leaving flat files and offboarding.
- Direct outreach: Message engineering leads at small software companies and offer a guided import of their files.
- First milestone
- Ten teams of 5 to 30 people import real secrets, and five pay for the Team tier within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Verified1Password sells paid plans with prices on request, on its own pricing page, plus prices on request for larger customers
- Public claimOrganizations pay for team password manager subscriptions
- Public claimFlat files are difficult and cumbersome for team secret sharing
- Public claimThe current market offers integrated sync across multiple devices (phone, desktop, laptop, browsers), which is valued by users
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Client-side encryptionBrowser WebCrypto with per-folder keysSecrets are encrypted on the device so the server stores only ciphertext.
- This app · Single sign-onSAML/OIDC provider serviceLarger teams expect sign-in through their identity provider.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalKey sharing between members, recovery after a lost device and revoking access without breaking sync are hard to get right. A flaw here undermines the whole product.
- CommercialEstablished paid password managers and self-hosted tools like TeamPass already serve teams. Buyers may see little reason to switch.
- RegulatoryCustomers may ask for security audits or certifications before storing production secrets, which costs time and money.
- PlatformBrowser autofill and mobile PWA limits may make the experience weaker than native apps and extensions.
- CommercialTrust is the product. A new vendor with no track record must win teams' most sensitive data.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.