
I Built My Own Password Manager Because I Trust No One (Like Gojo)
"Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one." — Gojo Satoru That's basically how I felt about my passwords. No cloud. No third party. Just me, my server, and full control. Last year, I watched the LastPass breach unfold in slow motion. Millions of encrypted vaults sitting on someone else's server, cracked open like they were nothing. And I thought — why are we okay with this? I was using a popular password manager at the time. Paying for it monthly. Trusting a company I'd never met with literally every login I had. That felt wrong. So I did what any slightly unhinged developer would do on a weekend. I built my own. Meet Tengen Tengen is a self-hostable, open source password manager. Your passwords live on your machine, encrypted at rest, and never touch a third-party server. Ever. 👉 Check out the landing page It runs on React + FastAPI + SQLite, spins up with a single docker-compose up , and the entire source code is open for anyone to audit. No subscriptions. No telemetry
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