The Digital Heir Service
A new save way to manage the inheritance of digital assets
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Sergei Kochurin

The Digital Heir Service - A new save way to manage the inheritance of digital assets

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The Digital Heir is a live open-source service for secure digital inheritance. It helps you store your most sensitive digital information in an encrypted Envelope and decide exactly when, and under what conditions, it should be released. Instead of exposing private information too early or relying on a simple “dead man’s switch,” The Digital Heir gives you a more controlled way to protect and pass on digital assets, passwords, instructions, and personal messages only if you stop responding.

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Sergei Kochurin
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m the maker of The Digital Heir. “Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he is sometimes unexpectedly mortal — there’s the trick!” — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita I built it around a simple but uncomfortable problem: people increasingly store critical digital information online — wallet seed phrases, account credentials, recovery codes, and private instructions — but there is still no good way to pass that information to the right person only if something happens to you, without exposing it too early. The Digital Heir is a live open-source service for secure digital inheritance. It lets you create an encrypted Envelope directly in your browser, define simple, human-memorable secret questions for your heir (such as “The name of your first crush” or “Our first pet was a ...”), and set a custom inactivity Pipeline based on your contacts such as Telegram, email, and WhatsApp. If you stop responding and all your check-in steps fail, your chosen heir receives a limited-time link to attempt decryption. A few things that matter to me in this project: - the Envelope is encrypted client-side in the browser, so my app knows nothing about your secret - the project is open source (in the README.md, you’ll find an extensive technical description and 2 videos about the product) - the product is already live and usable - the system (main app, API gateway servers, and KMS across different clouds) is security-focused and designed so that nobody can compromise your secret I’d especially love feedback on: - whether the idea is understandable at first glance - whether the trust/security story feels strong enough - what the main reason is that would stop you from using this service Thanks for checking it out — I’ll be here in the comments and happy to answer questions.