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Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by hga »

alexggordon wrote: post #6

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 com…

Open source Firefox took a long time to get anywhere, from Jan 1998 to Sept 2002 for initial release; as Jamie Zawinski when he checked out in March 1999 (http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html):

Open source does work, but it is most definitely not a panacea. If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ``open source,'' and have everything magically work out.

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by mistermann »

gingerlime wrote: post #3

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 an…

Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by shmenwan »

This was a fantastic program and it saddens me greatly to see it go. I hope that someone will pick it up again, or perhaps find a way for the rest of us to run our own servers, since switching to another password manager that doesn't do as good of a job (at least not for free) is going to be quite the inconvenience.

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by josegonzalez »

mistermann wrote: post #12
gingerlime wrote: post #3

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 an…

Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?

At SeatGeek, we use Lastpass. I don't personally know what it costs - yes, I'm a lazy operations person - but it seems like it might be $24 per person at our size[1].

I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week. The lastpass interface is confusing, slow, and ugly (I've beens spoiled by the spit and polish we've built). $8 per person compared to what we may be paying now seems very small, so it's probably not unreasonable (to be fair, enterprise pricing is hella weird).

- [1] https://lastpass.com/enterprise/pricing-roi/

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by shalmanese »

mistermann wrote: post #12
gingerlime wrote: post #3

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 an…

Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?

If the average developer's time is worth $60 an hour, then it would only have to save 4 - 8 minutes per month for it to be worth it, or 10 seconds a day.

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by kirushik »

josegonzalez wrote: post #15
mistermann wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?

At SeatGeek, we use Lastpass. I don't personally know what it costs - yes, I'm a lazy operations person - but it seems like it might be $24 per person at our size[1]. I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week. The lastpass interface is confusing, slow, and ugly (I've beens spoiled by the spit and polish we've built). $8 per person comp…

Isn't it $24 for a year of subscription?

Re: Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st

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Post by tzs »

josegonzalez wrote: post #15
mistermann wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, you'd pay $4 to $8 per month per user for a password manager?

At SeatGeek, we use Lastpass. I don't personally know what it costs - yes, I'm a lazy operations person - but it seems like it might be $24 per person at our size[1]. I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week. The lastpass interface is confusing, slow, and ugly (I've beens spoiled by the spit and polish we've built). $8 per person comp…

> I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week.

Wouldn't the multiple vault feature work group password sharing?

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