Elusive
Encrypted email, the first piece of an open privacy stack
What this is
Encrypted email that shows exactly what's sealed to your key versus visible to the server, instead of just claiming privacy. Free, but closed source until it reaches 300 users.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Encrypted email where your encryption key is generated in your browser and never leaves it; the front page shows exactly what's sealed to your key versus what the server can see.
- What's different
- Shows the precise line between what's encrypted and what's server-visible instead of just claiming full privacy; source code opens at 300 users and gets audited at 1,000.
- Pricing
- Free, no ads.
- Best for
- Privacy-focused users who want to verify what an encrypted email provider can and can't see rather than take a claim on faith.
- Watch out
- The codebase is currently closed source, with the source only opening once the service reaches 300 users.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 14 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Productivity. Launched 14d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 3 votes. Today, the site itself changed 2d ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Quiet for 2 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Shipping record
1 separate day we saw this ship · source: page changed
Beyan değil kanıt: founder “çalışıyoruz” diye post atabilir, ama sevk ettiyse izi kalır. ⚠️ Kaydı olmayan ürün “sevk etmedi” demek değildir — o üründe izleyecek bir kaynağımız yok demektir.
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 3 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 2 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 14 olay var. 1 quiet day in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Elusive is encrypted email built on honesty over claims. Instead of promising "we can't read your mail," it shows you the exact line between what's sealed to your key and what the server can see, on the front page. Your key is made in your browser and never leaves it. Free, no ads, no tracking. t's step one of a full open-source privacy architecture: a communicator and file sharing come next, on the same keys. Closed source today, honest about it. Source opens at 300 users, audit at 1,000.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 3 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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