On a different note, even though I'd pay to use it, after following the Google Group pretty closely, it seems like Mitro has been unable to foster any sort of development community in the short time the project has been open source. I would have loved to help, but mitro-core is written in Java[0], a language I have little experience with (I don't count my Data Structures class in college).
I'm curious if the demise of Mitro could be a useful case study of how not to open source a big codebase. It seems that they're shutting it down primarily because of lack of development interest, including lack of interest from the original creators. It could be naturally assumed that they were "expecting" a community to form around Mitro, and embrace the open sourceness of it, but that obviously didn't happen. I wonder if the founders would have done something different with the way they open sourced Mitro, given what has transpired.
[0] https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro/tree/master/mitro-core
Open source does work, but it is most definitely not a panacea. If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ``open source,'' and have everything magically work out.
So not unusual.
Big thanks to the Mitro team for keeping it alive until now. I'm still hopeful that this imminent closure will prompt someone to pick up the open-source project and keep it alive for longer (but understand that it's not an easy task).
I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week. The lastpass interface is confusing, slow, and ugly (I've beens spoiled by the spit and polish we've built). $8 per person compared to what we may be paying now seems very small, so it's probably not unreasonable (to be fair, enterprise pricing is hella weird).
Lately I've been looking at pass[0], do any of you have experience running this (with git)?
The only 'harder' part is (the last time I tried): You have to build the browser extensions you want to use, and override the path to the mitro server to point to your server. The config file is all centralized. So you change it once and can build all extensions at once. I did not find an options to customize the mitro server via the extension itself. (this is probably a good thing).
To get your customized extensions to your users, you might have to create an extra download site or fix the links in the mitro webpage.
@MitroCo's Tweet: https://twitter.com/MitroCo/status/577435506524336128?s=09
[0]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mitro-dev/cgFhvuPyUiE/o-sFkE... (Legally speaking: Mitro is run by Lectorius Inc, which has no legal relationship to Twitter Inc. It is a wholly owned independent company.)
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I was wondering how will they make money, and looks like I need not to wonder any longer :(
IOW, if this thing was to generate $500/month, would you keep bothering to operate it?
I happily pay $24/year for NewsBlur. I would happily pay/donate at that rate for Mitro.
And it sounds like _just_ the people in this thread would get you pretty close to $200/month given a model like that. I know more that would.
As other commenters said, the platform integration and password sharing are really, really great.
