Amber preserves things

AmberKey exists because of a simple, uncomfortable observation: the tools people use to prepare for their own death are usually startups, and startups die more often than people do. A digital estate service that vanishes takes its promises with it, at the exact moment nobody is left to complain.

So we inverted the requirement. Your family should never lose access because a startup died — including this one. Everything recovery-critical about AmberKey is open source, built on standard formats, mirrored beyond our control, and usable from a printed card and a single offline file. We spent our first engineering effort not on features but on making ourselves unnecessary at the moment of truth. The hosted service earns its keep through the years of quiet check-ins and careful coordination, not by being a gatekeeper at the end.

The other belief that shapes the product: this subject deserves calm. No countdown-timer upsells, no fear-based marketing, no dark patterns. A person planning for their death is doing something generous and difficult, and the software should behave accordingly. Where there are trade-offs, we document them (including the ones that don't flatter us). Where there are delays, they exist to protect someone.

AmberKey is a small team. The product is in active development; the repository is public. If what we're building matters to you, we'd like to hear from you: hello@amberkey.app.