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Show HN: I just fixed .env once and for all – better-env

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Found: November 23, 2025
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Show HN: I just fixed .env once and for all – better-env .env files have always felt archaic, insecure, clunky and honestly just not fun to work with. I see my friends (and myself) accidentally committing them all the time. Managing secrets across projects becomes a mess of copy-pasting keys into scattered env files with no real way to sync anything.

So I built better-env: a secure, developer-friendly alternative to .env.

Store your secrets once in a global encrypted store, and load them per-project at runtime.

I’d love feedback on whether this feels useful beyond solo devs, and what you’d want for teams or CI setups.

Fully open source: https://github.com/HarishChandran3304/better-env

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