The features we said no to.
The most requested features we chose not to build, and the reason for each.
Loe →Lood
Stories
Security you can hold.
Keys, deeds and safes worked because custody is intuitive. What that means for a vault.
Loe →Everything that syncs, costs.
Sync, autofill and cloud backup are useful. An honest accounting of what each one trades away.
Loe →There is nothing to sign up for.
Why there is no sign-up, and the conveniences we gave up to keep it that way.
Loe →Nothing to reach remotely.
The case for a thing that cannot be reached from somewhere else.
Loe →Two people, one vault.
Households already share secrets badly. How a set of three cards fits a couple or a family.
Loe →Crossing borders with a wallet.
Unfamiliar networks, bags out of sight, phones handed over. Travelling with secrets you hold.
Loe →Someone finds your card.
A stranger picks up your card on a platform. Exactly what they see, and what they'd need.
Loe →Access for a week, not forever.
Giving someone access for a few days, and taking it back afterwards, without handing over your whole life.
Loe →A new machine, nothing to pull from.
The first hour with a new computer exposes every circular dependency in how you store access.
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