Live data from Hacker News

LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

techcrunch.com

161–170 of 319 posts

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#161
post #7

Bitwarden is a nice alternative. And you can self-host the server part if you want. edit: LastPass is owned by LogMeIn, that's why I mention this alternative.

Does BitWarden do auto-fill on iOS?

No, but with some settings adjustments you can use it as your password manager and it becomes accessible from the keyboard.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#162
post #111

A lot of discussion surrounding LastPass and alternatives, but what are some actual LogMeIn alternatives that people like?

https://www.cloudberrylab.com/remote-assistant.aspx Not only free, they don't even have a paid version.

If I can't understand the business model, I'm probably not going to use the software.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#164

Software Engineer here working on GotoMeeting (throwaway account). Not having gone through a private equity buyout in my career before, any ideas of what to expect/any recommendations of what to do now?

Has any private equity buyout ever helped anybody other than the PE stakeholders?

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#165

Software Engineer here working on GotoMeeting (throwaway account). Not having gone through a private equity buyout in my career before, any ideas of what to expect/any recommendations of what to do now?

They'll give you a shpiel how this is for the best and that brighter days are to come with new management. Maybe they'll entice folks with an incentive program that says "if profits are x much, you'll get a bonus in 2 years."

Then within 18 months, they'll reduce benefits (e.g. worse insurance plan, change the vacation policy), or maybe actually lay off people and shut down entire departments to boost numbers.

tl;dr - update your a resume and start interviewing to have a backup. If upper management thinks you're a top performer, you have a bit more leeway.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great product, hundreds of computers for professional purposes, and "several thousand dollars" is a sticking point? Why?

Windows itself costs $200 or so. LogMeIn isn't worth 5 times as much as the operating system. At that price, it very quickly becomes cheaper to investigate alternatives like just using a Linux machine where remote management is a breeze, and there are tons of high-quality, free tools (with optional paid support contracts that are very inexpensive by comparison.)

Take a look at the pricing for Jetbrains products. 500€ for the first year only. I'm sure it has some features above "vim with syntax highlighting" but I can't tell which one costs 500.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#167
post #94
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heads up: I work for 1Password Any reason why you'd say unfortunately there? I see it as a pretty big perk rather than an unfortunately. But I would also like to understand a bit more so I can pass along any necessary feedback to our team. Thanks! Kyle 1Password Security Team

Not the OP, but I dropped 1Password when it became clear you're forcing folks to cloud storage. I was sort of hoping the carefully chosen weasel-words about that used at the time meant you'd reconsider if enough of us made noise, but later releases made it clear where you're headed. It bummed me out - I really like 1pw. And I still don't have my password situation back to the same level of ease-of-use yet, but I swit…

I still use 1password because local storage and wifi sync still works but the minute that stops I'll look for another alternative.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#168

In my experience, a private equity take over is the kiss of death.

It's easily the bottom of the barrel type recovery.

Although historically private equity has been a net gain for struggling businesses that would otherwise go out of business.

There was tons of anti PE stuff after the financial crisis and they received some of the earlier and harshest attacks from congress and other groups, but the data didn't support the idea they were some corporate raiding vultures and far more often turned around ventures in precarious positions.

But ultimately its not something you go to when they are going well. Unless there is some obvious value add consolidation scheme.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#169
post #123
post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I won't pretend that we're the password manager for everyone. If we're not the right one for you then hopefully one of the dozens of others out there fit the bill. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and let me know your opinion on this though. Thanks! Kyle 1Password Security Team

I assume you have numbers showing the total number of whiners like me are an acceptable loss, but I find dropping that feature inexplicable, honestly.

From running a service, I assume the calculation they did was simply "number of people that whine to us because they lost their self-hosted files > number of people that whine to us because we don't allow them to self-host their files".

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

#170
post #136
post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) to generate and store passwords locally, GNU Privacy Guard ( https://gnupg.org/ ) to encrypt them, and then use git ( https://git-scm.com/ ) to backup and sync your encrypted passwords on all your devices in a distributed way. Pass is an open source project by the guy who made WireGuard ( https://www.wireguard.com/ ), and there are open source apps for iOS and Android too,…

Ensuring a gpg key isn't lost seems pretty obnoxious.

Why would you lose it? You'll have to install it on all your devices that you want to access your passwords from. I have mine on my desktop, laptop, and phone. The chances of me losing all 3 devices at the same time is very low.
Post reply on HN