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LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)
- K-Wall 12y agoSlightly off-topic but I first read that as LogMeIn, Inc. has acquired Medium and was very confused.
- crapshoot101 12y agoDitto! Was very confused at the application of long treatises to remote acesss!
- tootie 12y agoI as well. I'm guessing most people did. Meldium is hard to say even in my head.
- AnkhMorporkian 12y agoI have never personally heard of them, and it is indeed hard to say. I have no idea why you've been downvoted. Are we as commentators expected to keep up with every YC acquisition?
- comeonnow 12y agoSame for me too, added to the fact I've never heard of Meldium
- TeMPOraL 12y agoExactly. I didn't know what LogMeIn is, but clicked on this thread because I read "Medium" in the title...
- digitalbase 12y agoSame here. Medium posts are sexy :-)
- Deivuh 12y agoThat happened to me too. I was just wondering why LogMeIn would acquire Medium, and why Medium would take the offer.
- EGreg 12y agoYeah I also thought it was about Medium, even after reading it and coming back here. I was wondering why Medium is suddenly so gung ho about security.
- kenjackson 12y agoCongrats to LogMeIn and Meldium. You should add the YC class to the title, so folks know it is YC company story.
- mrweasel 12y agoI'm a little curious about Meldium now, but I can't find any explanation as to how it works. Just a short text, flowchart or a video would have been useful.
- borisjabes 12y agoBoris from Meldium here. One of our customers wrote a great description on our blog (http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/5/19/the-web-setup-envy-labs http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/5/19/the-web-setup-envy-la...) which I'll paste here: "The actual implementation continually blows my mind. You're basically using a man-in-the-middle attack for good, if I don't betray my poor understanding of the concept. A less malignant analogy would be to liken it to the way telephone companies operated switchboards before individual telephone numbers connected people directly. You had to call the central and ask the operator (i.e. Meldium) to talk to your friend Frank McFakeperson in Ipsum, South Dakota (i.e. MailChimp) and the operator would patch you through to them seamlessly."
- spacefight 12y agoDoes that imply that the browser extension does the MITM?
- borisjabes 12y agoIt's server-side and the browser extension unpacks the result.
- spacefight 12y agoHow can you do a MITM server-side?
- cameronh90 12y agoIs there any way to integrate internal-only cloud hosted applications with Meldium? It looks awesome, in a similar space to OneLogin which is incredibly clunky by comparison, but for our usage, it needs to work with our internal apps too.
- namenotrequired 12y agoFor those curious, Meldium is from YC W13.
- progx 12y agoFirst I read medium and thought "What?"
- jasonshen 12y agoCongrats! I've seen the problem of group password management over and over again at so many companies. I hope your team's happy with the outcome and that you get to keep working on making this solution even better.
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- domydeal 12y agoCongrats to the Meldiun team! Nice job guys.
- justizin 12y agoGrats Meldium!
- jsherwani 12y agoMeldium is an amazing tool. We use it at Screenhero and it's been indispensable. The acquisition makes perfect sense, since Meldium truly does "LogMeIn"! Congrats to the amazing team behind Meldium!
- mrjatx 12y agoWatch out, Meldium, LogMeIn likes to completely change it's game plan on its customers (LogMeIn mobile App drama) with zero sympathy. I wonder how they'll treat an acquisition.
- popmikeup 12y agoWe're nervous too. This is 2 apps we're dependent on getting acquired and potentially completely mangled. The first amazingly shut off all support for the UK (We're UK-based) immediately. Better for customers? Ha!
- borisjabes 12y agoBoris from Meldium here. While I can't make promises, we intend to invest and improve our service for years to come!
- eps 12y agoAre you referring to the retirement of LogMeIn Free and the "I've been using it for years with 100s of customers (in violation of half of your EULA), how could you do this to me??!" wailing and theatrics that followed? That was an absolutely brilliant move on their part. They basically gifted all their over-entitled and obnoxious freeloaders to TeamViewer :) If anything, I'd be happy to get acquired by a company that got their shit together.
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- darklrd 12y agoCongratulations! Amazing tool.
- mephi5t0 12y agoSo they can properly create an uninstall tool? Still have shit behind after LMIn went non-free and couldn't properly uninstall everything...
- aglazer 12y agoAwesome team + product. Huge congrats!
- programminggeek 12y agoI almost thought it said LogMeIn has acquired Medium. Weird.
- ddoolin 12y agoSame. That was a very attention-grabbing title until I saw the reality of it...:)
- zhte415 12y agoBit of confusion regarding active vs passive voice in the title. I am curious, however, how audit trails are followed by both services.
- brianr 12y agoCongrats Brad and team!
- bradleybuda 12y agoThanks Brian! We have some big ambitions to extend our SSO / password vault to way more apps and devices, and we think LogMeIn is an awesome partner to help us kill off passwords completely.