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1Password Has Raised $620M

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Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Groxx »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #564
Groxx wrote: post #562

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Given how extremely hidden they've made the perpetual license option, I'm honestly surprised it's 30:1. That seems to be a sign of "people want this bad enough that they go hunting for it for quite a while".

No, they are picking subscriptions 30 times more than licenses. When they first did this it wasn’t hidden at all. The website gave you 2 options side by side.

That's how I intended it, yeah. I'm surprised it's even over 1% of people choosing the standalone license.

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Post by drtz »

bombcar wrote: post #83
soheil wrote: post #77

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I really love an alternative that does these: 1. native app (no bullshit JS based) for speed 2. the same keybindings CMD+\ or Option+CMD+\ to fill in or pop up the menu 3. sync with icloud 4. not look like total shit (ie. lastpass) Do these basic things and I think you can easily steal 1pass users.

Apple is so close with Keychain, I feel if they spent a bit a time on the UI of it and offered some plugin capability it'd be perfect.

As a regular user of Android, Windows, and Linux systems Keychain is almost worthless.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by pgwhalen »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #237
akerl_ wrote: post #192

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I’m amused by the large portion of the Hackernews userbase that seems to view venture capital as an absolute evil, given that this is YCombinator’s forum. Can you really not think of any examples where VC capital has improved a company, product, or service?

> Can you really not think of any examples where VC capital has improved a company, product, or service? I honestly can’t, do you mind sharing a few examples to prove your point? I have a long list of “stopped using because went to shit after VC was injected” 1. WhatsApp and Facebook relation 2. Twitter and the loss of control over my feed 3. Spotify and the podcasts shenanigans 4. Dropbox and their assholery against…

I’m confused about what the point is here. Isn’t every single one of these companies venture capital funded?

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Post by rjzzleep »

commoner wrote: post #473
rahimnathwani wrote: post #397

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F-Droid lists at least 4 Keepass-compatible password managers (KeePassDX, KeePassDroid etc.). Is there one which is best for most users?

KeePassDX has its own keyboard that lets you securely input usernames, passwords, and other fields without exposing sensitive data to the clipboard (handy when autofill doesn't handle the field). - Website: https://www.keepassdx.com - F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre... - Source: https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/releases Another FOSS app called Keepass2Android has the same f…

I tried both KeepassDX and Keepass2Android. In the end I went with Keepass2Android. I don't remember why I chose Keepass2Android in the end, but I can definitely recommend it.

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Post by ubalatte »

jrockway wrote: post #553
koboll wrote: post #360

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Pretty typical for people here to be zoomed-in on the b2c side of a business because that's what they use, and fail to see the b2b side, the underwater mass of the iceberg.

I think it's a little weird. I have used 1password at two jobs, and thought it was great, so I bought it for myself. They want money to sync my passwords between my Windows desktop and my iPhone. Seems reasonable to me. I program computers for a living and people pay me. I guess there was a free self-hosted type thing at one point in the past? That was before I ever heard of the product, so I'm not that upset that it…

"Very weird to show it in the UI and then when you try to use it, quote you an insanely high price."

How much did they quote? (if you're able to share)

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Spooky23 »

btown wrote: post #295

People thinking this is an absurd amount of money are sleeping on how 1Password is quietly positioning itself to become the ground truth storage solution for corporate secret management, across devops and non-technical groups alike. Given Hashicorp's market cap of 11B, and 1Password's narrative on how to become even more central to corporate use cases by being the storage layer for Vault deployments, it's a very reas…

Enterprise stuff is slowly moving away from the use cases that require solutions like 1Password, and since they are neither FIPS 140-2 validated or have FedRAMP ATOs, they have alot of work to do.

They also have the issue of all of the crypto nerds going nuts when they start getting their FIPS stuff done.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by AlexandrB »

symlinkk wrote: post #552
jeffrallen wrote: post #534

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They should take 20 million, endow a foundation, and have the foundation hire a couple of their original devs to make a clean room, open-source equivalent to 1Password 6. Then those of us who actually just want a self hosted password manager, not a massive whacky cloud secret factory, can use that. Sigh, what a stupid world we live in, where greed destroys everything good.

Why do you feel entitled to that? Are you going to pay for it again?

If pay for it again in a heartbeat.

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Post by drtz »

koboll wrote: post #360
btown wrote: post #295

People thinking this is an absurd amount of money are sleeping on how 1Password is quietly positioning itself to become the ground truth storage solution for corporate secret management, across devops and non-technical groups alike. Given Hashicorp's market cap of 11B, and 1Password's narrative on how to become even more central to corporate use cases by being the storage layer for Vault deployments, it's a very reas…

Pretty typical for people here to be zoomed-in on the b2c side of a business because that's what they use, and fail to see the b2b side, the underwater mass of the iceberg.

There's a chance that a push toward enterprise may even result in a feature a lot of us more savvy individual customers would love to see as well: self-hosting.

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Post by rekoil »

jonpurdy wrote: post #593
rekoil wrote: post #426

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I don't even mind the subscription fee and cloud hosting personally, just make a kickass native app like they always had and I'll stay. If they force me to "upgrade" to 8 and it's not a native app then I'll just use something else like bitwarden.

I would be happy to pay the subscription fee for a native app, especially since my partner and parents can use it under the family plan. It works great for that! I've been paying for upgrades since 2007 (version 2.0 I think). Except that version 7 also introduced some massive UI/UX regressions! There were so many that I started collecting them in a Ulysses note so that I wouldn't forget why 1Password has gone so far…

Definitely felt all of these, but I moved from LastPass to 1Password after 7 had been released so didn't know they were regressions. That's really shitty actually. I am honestly infuriated by shit like this because it just doesn't make any sense at all...

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Spooky23 »

rekoil wrote: post #488
kitsunesoba wrote: post #485

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Similar here, I don’t mind the subscription fee and even like that I can effortlessly pull my passwords from whichever device I need to at the moment. The new electron app is a mess though, even if its data layer is done in Rust. It feels like a cheap imitation of the old one with so many little details being wrong, along with the general sluggishness that comes with a “modern” web stack. I’m not really happy with an…

Right!? The hard part is integrating nicely with the OS, which is just not something that's in Electrons bag. The thing Electron "improves" for them is portability for the one thing that users really want to avoid interacting with. It's just such a confusing business decision in my eyes, and to be completely honest, part of the reason I'm looking at switching is literally that they are making a decision like this unp…

Agreed.

Porting an app as security sensitive as a secrets manager to a client with an attack surface of Electron seems just fundamentally dumb.

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