Once
Shares rank 42 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
Free tool for caching CLI commands that keeps secrets out of files and the environment. Critics question what its use case is.
Free tool for caching CLI commands that keeps secrets out of files and the environment. Critics question what its use case is.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Users thank the maker and find it useful
“This looks awesome. Thanks for making this.”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Once: Cache CLI commands” “I'm glad you're finding it useful.”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Once: Cache CLI commands”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Unclear use case
“Seems well-designed, but what’s the use case?”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Once: Cache CLI commands” “Uh I dont know about that one chief.”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Once: Cache CLI commands”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I'm glad you're finding it useful.”
“as soon as I saw the 1password example. Lightning.”
“This looks awesome. Thanks for making this.”
“without leaving secrets in files or by default exposed in the environment”
“Uh I dont know about that one chief.”
“Seems well-designed, but what’s the use case?”
“even 37signals have found it hard to be sustainable”
“The problem with ONCE is that software is never finished.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.