I moved from LastPass to Bitwarden a few years ago because of the nimbleness and simplicity of it, it felt so refreshing.
How much time do we have left before Bitwarden gradually becomes as bad as LastPass for the sake of high growth? 2-3 years? I’m not passing any judgement on this raise, entrepreneurs do what they gotta do.
>How much time do we have left before Bitwarden gradually becomes as bad as LastPass? 2-3 years? I’m not passing any judgement on this raise, entrepreneur do what they gotta do.
Bitwarden though actually has an API, and in turn interesting community implementation potential such as the Rust-based Vaultwarden [0]. While I agree seeing them get a huge round does raise some concern in terms of the revenue generation pressure (1Password sticks in my mind as a worse example though with their switch to forced subs-only, no local/non-1P vaults, abandonment of native apps etc), to me the real sign would be if they broke self-hosting. But even so, of course with self-hosting one could simply stop there. Doesn't feel like quite the same situation as 1P or LastPass where one was really in a fully vs partially proprietary system.
I'd be OK with paying for updates to quality clients though so long as it was a regular payment system (not paying means staying on that version vs having it stop working).
How much time do we have left before Bitwarden gradually becomes as bad as LastPass for the sake of high growth? 2-3 years? I’m not passing any judgement on this raise, entrepreneurs do what they gotta do.