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I feel like they were making a general secure E2E 'corporate team software' kit, with a focus on software dev. Storage, chat, git, etc. But then they forgot t
by novok 7y ago
I feel like they were making a general secure E2E 'corporate team software' kit, with a focus on software dev. Storage, chat, git, etc. But then they forgot to charge money :(
For corps especially, they want to be able to pay money so they can get support and SLAs. But keybase files have always had somewhat bad performance and undefined storage limits, so you couldn't rely on it as a company. It was always the biggest confusion point about keybase for me. If keybase charged money, would they have been more successful?
The social network / device & key management stuff they started with I considered their original startup idea that they pivoted from.
- morpheuskafka 7y agoAgreed. I was really impressed with the software quality for an all-FOSS team, but it wasn't quite good enough for enterprise, and without charging money it won't ever happen. I wonder what if any features besides for the core crypto code Zoom will try to adapt. They are after all a rapidly growing enterprise app and I could see chat or file sharing being added.
- baby 7y ago> and without charging money it won't ever happen they got to do some pretty cool stuff and just exited pretty nicely joining a company that is on the rise. I'd say that's a success. Being in the field that's pretty much what I wish I could do whenever I'll start a startup.