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Do you know how Wire makes money to sustain what they are doing? Don't want to invest my time into something that will eventually sell out and do that opposite

Do you know how Wire makes money to sustain what they are doing? Don't want to invest my time into something that will eventually sell out and do that opposite of what they stand for today.

walterbell 10y ago
On Twitter, they said they plan to sell premium features. They are currently funded by a founder of Skype.
bluesign 10y ago
Last time i checked they have no revenue possibility. So I decided to skip, I am curious on this too
- unicornporn 10y ago
  There's quite an interesting discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/57n8ee/instant_messaging_comparison_table/d8uj3bn/ 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...
  - Siimteller 10y ago
    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 https://wire.com/jobs
at612 10y ago
> 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? :-)
Siimteller 10y ago
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.

Do you know how Wire makes money to sustain what they are doing? Don't want to invest my time into something that will eventually sell out and do that opposite of what they stand for today.

walterbell 10y ago

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

bluesign 10y ago

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

unicornporn 10y ago
There's quite an interesting discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/57n8ee/instant_messaging_comparison_table/d8uj3bn/ 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...
- Siimteller 10y ago
  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 https://wire.com/jobs

at612 10y ago

> 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? :-)

Siimteller 10y ago

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.