Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

#1

Post by boristhespider » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 8:47 PM UTC

Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st
mitro.co

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

#2

Post by minimaxir » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 8:57 PM UTC

They were apparently acquihired by Twitter a year ago: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/twitter-mitro/

So not unusual.

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

#3

Post by gingerlime » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

Such a shame to see it go. A fantastic password manager to use. Amazingly slick interface, cross-platform support, intuitive UI. We would have happily paid for it (we can't afford $200/month, but maybe $20 or $40 - we're a small team of 5 people using it).

Big thanks to the Mitro team for keeping it alive until now. I'm still hopeful that this imminent closure will prompt someone to pick up the open-source project and keep it alive for longer (but understand that it's not an easy task).

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#4

Post by misterdata » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 9:36 PM UTC

I only had a brief look at the source code (it's over at Github) but it seems one could easily run their own server?

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#5

Post by philippnagel » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 10:11 PM UTC

$200/month for the whole technical infrastructure?

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#6

Post by alexggordon » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

I've used Mitro ever since I heard about it. It's been really fantastic to use, and the team did an incredible job creating it. It has everything I look for in a password manager, even without any updates or changes since it's been open sourced.

On a different note, even though I'd pay to use it, after following the Google Group pretty closely, it seems like Mitro has been unable to foster any sort of development community in the short time the project has been open source. I would have loved to help, but mitro-core is written in Java[0], a language I have little experience with (I don't count my Data Structures class in college).

I'm curious if the demise of Mitro could be a useful case study of how not to open source a big codebase. It seems that they're shutting it down primarily because of lack of development interest, including lack of interest from the original creators. It could be naturally assumed that they were "expecting" a community to form around Mitro, and embrace the open sourceness of it, but that obviously didn't happen. I wonder if the founders would have done something different with the way they open sourced Mitro, given what has transpired.

[0] https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro/tree/master/mitro-core

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#7

Post by eps » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 10:40 PM UTC

philippnagel wrote: post #5

$200/month for the whole technical infrastructure?

Seems about right for a service of their type and size - probably a couple of servers and some external monitoring.

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#8

Post by cjbprime » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 10:42 PM UTC

philippnagel wrote: post #5

$200/month for the whole technical infrastructure?

They might be asking in the hope that many people will reply and each take them up on the offer.

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#9

Post by nstart » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 11:01 PM UTC

They've put out the indication as early as March this year. Just found this:

@MitroCo's Tweet: https://twitter.com/MitroCo/status/577435506524336128?s=09

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#10

Post by hyperpape » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 1:16 AM UTC

It's not long, but why leave a week where you can create new accounts for a dying service?