Open source developers should think twice before accepting VC funding. The VC then own them.

I'm paying for BitWarden because I want to support them. But it's pretty clear that they're backsliding.

This is understandable, the password manager market is saturated and implementing new features like Passkeys is far from trivial.

Still, they are the only real option for a one-click mostly open source password manager that works across all the major platforms and that supports modern features.

I was concerned about BitWarden when it started copying or acting like 1Password. Their marketing text, features, etc., are similar. I understand there isn’t much to differentiate between Password Management tools. BitWarden was supposed to be the Open-Source alternative to 1Password and better than Keepass.

I’m a customer of both services. I started with 1Password since its early days and have been using the family plan for the past 5+ years.

I used BitWarden when starting with Teams, as it is cheaper and presumably scalable. I hope that if things grow up, we can either host it ourselves or the pricing is affordable enough.

If Bitwarden becomes as “successful” as 1Password, people/companies will actually just use 1Password.

I think, now, the idea would be to start moving all critical ones to Keepass; and use a better UX client on top of the database.

Recent and related:

Bitwarden is no longer free software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994 - Oct 2024 (71 comments)