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The Verge reports: > Since then, Beeper has rolled out some security upgrades that change the way the app handles security and prevent Beeper itself from seeing unencrypted messages from Signal, WhatsApp, and other encrypted apps. Screenshots of Beeper’s desktop and mobile apps. How?
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I would not be surprised if this was their plan from day 1: (1) Create a product which relies on non-public APIs which can be disabled at any time. (2) Generate lots of press visibility. (3) Sell itself to some gullible org before the whole thing comes crashing down.
It wasn't, they genuinely believe in Beeper, and the long term plan was rather to become the leading chat app in their own right, with users communicating over the Beeper protocol.
Exciting day for Beeper! It all started here on HN 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278
I really like Beeper, and congrats to them for getting acquired, but my first reaction is "aw damn how long until the parts I love about Beeper get incredible journey'd away". The new android app is really good, the desktop app has always been a step up from other Element apps I've used (it is a distant fork, these days), I don't have iMessage, but it works great with Matrix and Signal and WhatsApp a ton of other "ra…
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They will likely dismantle Texts and focus on Beeper as it received more investment while taking the good of Texts. They will probably introduce Texts monetization model to Beeper though. One app for Apple and another for Android kinda defeats the purpose of "all in one platform", wouldn't it?
I hope not, have you used both apps? Texts is much more stable and easy to use than Beeper in my experience.
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“We plan to be enshittified,” said nobody, ever.
That's a pessimistic take to say that Automattic will close up Beeper and make it a worse a product.
every. company. wants. money.
it's the SAME, EVERY.SINGLE.TIME
Here is my Beeper timeline: March 9, 2021: Paid $120 June 2, 2021: It's your turn to start using Beeper June 10, 2021: Invite code for upcoming Beeper onboarding July 2, 2021: totally locked up now At which point, I had a few more back and forth emails (looks like about 27 from 7/2/2021 - 7/16/2021), and finally gave up. Good for them to get that exit. They put a lot of work into it, but it seemed like an impossible…
How does Automattic even survive and remain profitable (?) nowadays? What’s the niche?
Automattic is primarily four core businesses: 1. WordPress.com - Hosted SaaS for building websites. Very cheap to run, includes ads on free sites, and they sell users upgrades like custom domains or removing ads from their sites. 2. Jetpack - Services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like backups, social media integration, image CDN, antispam - mostly paid services, again very cheap to run. 3. WooCommerce - Open sour…