Rolling out paid stuff next year. As someone said - VC funded so have had the luxury to focus on building a great app, see if people find value in it. This has been true, lots of interest form B2B world from groups, teams, organizations where privacy and security important.

> Don't want to invest my time into something that will eventually sell out

And what do you think the gentleman behind Signal is out there for?

His modus operandi:

* Start a company, call it something catchy, like Whisper Systems.

* Get media coverage and some users.

* Sell to Twitter

* Start a company, call it something catchy, like Open Whisper Systems.

* Get media coverage and some users.

* ...

Start to see a pattern? :-)

On Twitter, they said they plan to sell premium features. They are currently funded by a founder of Skype.

Last time i checked they have no revenue possibility. So I decided to skip, I am curious on this too

There's quite an interesting discussion here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/57n8ee/inst...

As I see it, there's some sort of trade off for all solutions for private instant messaging right now. Wire comes close to a good solution. The biggest problem for me is that the official Android client is quite buggy, UI wise...

Fair enough critique on Android bugs, we're fixing them at a steady pace. But if you know any good Scala developers in Berlin / interested in moving to Berlin then we're hiring https://wire.com/jobs