That just makes it worse. I'm a paying customer right now. VC + focus on business means the consumer stuff dies or gets neglected to the point that it should die. All resources get moved to the high-growth parts of the business once VC enters a company. Bitwarden will not be the first to get VC to change its operating principles.
Yeah I think it means "we're going enterprise, at-home users enjoy your coming time with bitwarden as it may end abruptly" . That's a bit superlative, but I suspect people should be looking for alternatives. Anything has to be better than my old way of adding my own password layer on top of an excel spreadsheet that I came up with while in college a long time ago. Bitwarden syncing was pretty nice and it not trying to turn into some kind of swiss army knife app.
Here we go again: Some company (in this case, Bitwarden) "betrayed" its customers by doing what every other firm does. And Hn goes brrr over it. Then another alternative (KeePass) appears on HN's frontpage. It's like companies are right: You can't target the niche market of programmers because their expectations are through the roof.
I wonder, aren't the majority of HNers working at a for-profit company funded by VCs?
> VC + focus on business means the consumer stuff dies or gets neglected to the point that it should die. All resources get moved to the high-growth parts of the business once VC enters a company.
At the end of the day, engineers/programmers are the ones who implement these changes. I find it unacceptable that lots of HNers get so high minded about these issues but then go on to contribute to the problem by working at for-profit companies. Nothing wrong with either one, just choose one.
One benefit of providing a great free service to individuals is that they become champions and help sell the product. Case in point, I work in IT at a large company that currently does not have an official password manager, and I am recommending it here.
