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Day 12: Swift macOS password manager for people who hate the cloud

Sean Walker on January 12, 2019

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Roustem Karimov • Edited

Hi Sean,

It was great to read your post. I can relate to it because I also started a new app from scratch. It was supposed to be a one-month project but (13 years later) we still working on it. Talk about how bad developers are with estimates :)

I would disagree with you about "word of mouth", this is the best and probably the only strategy that works. Paul Graham wrote about doing things that do not scale and you might find it useful: paulgraham.com/ds.html

Best of luck! ā¤

Roustem
Founder of 1Password
Toronto, Canada

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Sean Walker

Ha! I love this! Thanks for the encouragement!

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Afzal Najam

This is great and I'm looking forward to this but:

Exclusively made for Apple devices: the mac and the iPhone

Many of us have more than just Apple devices. This exclusivity makes it difficult to migrate.

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Sean Walker

Hmm, it does. Here's where I'm coming from.

There are so many cross platform password managers, even open source ones like keepass and bitwarden.

I have to carve a niche out for myself here or no one will care. What's that saying? "If you build something for everyone, it works for no one."

I decided to make this for people like me

  • people who are not interested in syncing their passwords over the cloud
  • people who are interested in having a password manager written in platform-specific SDKs, not electron
  • people who don't want to pay a subscription

MY PEOPLE! āœŠ

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Afzal Najam

That's totally fair and I agree with that :)