Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die
Seal Sealed envelopes for the people you leave behind. Website · How it works · What it does not do · The objections, answered · Report a vulnerability After you die, your will goes through a court and what is in it becomes a public record that anyone can look up. So the password to your bank, the phrase that opens your wallet, where the safe deposit key is, the combination, the thing you never told anybody: none of it can go in one.
- ▪Seal Sealed envelopes for the people you leave behind.
- ▪Website · How it works · What it does not do · The objections, answered · Report a vulnerability After you die, your will goes through a court and what is in it becomes a public record that anyone can look up.
- ▪So the password to your bank, the phrase that opens your wallet, where the safe deposit key is, the combination, the thing you never told anybody: none of it can go in one.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/jasonepage/Seal |
| Publication time | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:28:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-19T05:03:46.347Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-19T05:03:46.347Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rQhh_t32hKIx · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Seal Sealed envelopes for the people you leave behind. Website · How it works · What it does not do · The objections, answered · Report a vulnerability After you die, your will goes through a court and what is in it becomes a public record that anyone can look up. So the password to your bank, the phrase that opens your wallet, where the safe deposit key is, the combination, the thing you never told anybody: none of it can go in one. Seal is where those things go instead. You write a small number of envelopes, one per person: a letter, photos, a voice message, a video, a file, and the secrets. You choose a few people you trust, face to face, and hand each a piece of one key. You set the rule for how the envelopes open after you are gone.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.