Live since July 2026
Veri EZ
Veri EZ is the sign-in behind the apps on this site. One account, shared across all of them, so that every small app here does not have to grow its own half-finished login.
- Node
- Express
- SQLite
- WebAuthn
You probably got here by clicking a joke
Every app here signs its footer with a line like “Held together by Veri EZ” or “Veri EZ took the night shift”. There are twenty-five of them and one shows at random each time a page loads. They are jokes about a piece of plumbing, and the plumbing is real: this page is what they are talking about.
What it actually does
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One account, every app
Your email address is the account. Sign in once and the same identity works in every app on this site that asks for one — you are not making a fifth login for a fifth small tool.
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Passkeys, or a code by email
Sign in with a passkey — Face ID, Touch ID, a security key — or have a short code emailed to you. Passwords are supported and are the option nobody needs to use.
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It sends the mail
Sign-in codes, reminders, receipts. One mail path for the whole family of apps, so there is one place to fix when mail stops arriving, not five.
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Nothing to sign up for
Veri EZ is not a product and has no front door of its own. You get an account by using an app that uses it, and that is the only way in.
Why it exists
Every app needs accounts, and writing accounts is the least interesting work in software. Sign-up, sign-in, forgotten password, email verification, session expiry, the second device — it is a week of work per app and it is the same week every time. Do it five times and you have five slightly different versions of it, four of which are worse than the best one, and all of which have to be maintained forever.
So it got written once. Remailminder, EZ Money and EZ Pics all authenticate against the same service rather than each carrying their own. When passkeys got added, all three got passkeys. When the mail sender is fixed, it is fixed everywhere at once.
The same argument applies to email. Four apps that each send mail would mean four separate Gmail projects, four sets of credentials to rotate, and four different things to check when a message does not turn up. There is one.
How it is built
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Boring on purpose
Node, Express, SQLite, and WebAuthn from a maintained library rather than hand-rolled cryptography. Nothing here wants to be clever.
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Each app knows only its own users
Apps ask Veri EZ about the person in front of them and get an answer about that app. What you use one app for is not something another app can ask about.
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Self-hosted, like the rest
It runs on hardware owned outright, in the same house as the apps it serves. There is no third-party identity provider in the middle of your sign-in.
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Rate-limited and watched
Code requests and sign-in attempts are throttled, and the service is monitored by a watchdog that alerts through a path independent of Veri EZ itself — otherwise an outage here could quietly silence its own alarm.
Veri EZ is infrastructure, not a product. It will never be sold, never carry advertising, and never be the reason an app on this site starts charging for something that used to be free. It is here so the apps can be small.