Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months.

Star OP , 4 months ago

Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they're giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).

deweydecibel , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

There is a not-insignificant amount of start ups and small projects out there looking to hook the privacy-minded crowd seeking smaller, independent replacements for Microsoft /Google/Apple's various services and suites.

And that's good in the sense there's more options, but some of them (not all, but some) don't seem to be from people that truly believe in their product and intend to maintain it long term, they just want to get enough users to get acquired.

friend_of_satan , 4 months ago

Stage 1 is done. Stage 2 is beginning:

now here's how a platform dies. first it's good to its users. then it abuses those users to make things better for business customers.

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?t=128

cetil , 4 months ago

>free thinkers

Lol. Lmao even.