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Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I expected more from them, even more so when they turned into a non profit.

Two points to make:

  1. What did they do wrong here?
  2. Isn't it better for these products to be provided by a nonprofit?
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The issue is that they're neglecting their core apps in favor of expanding their portfolio. There's nothing wrong with creating these apps, but it should not be done until the core apps are industry leading and extremely refined.

The developers they used to create this wallet could have been used to fix protonmail bugs, or to bring protonvpn on Linux up to snuff. There's still no first party CLI for Linux boxes, for example.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will say, I disagree with this perspective as a developer.

Adding more people doesn't inherently make the product better. You can have too many cooks in the kitchen and too many people stepping on each other's toes.

It's like the saying 9 women can't make a baby in a month.

I think the other apps are moving at a reasonable pace. Though I do wish they'd put some more people on Linux desktop apps... Maybe even a Linux distribution "Proton OS" could be very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't see much value in a "Proton OS," there are already more than enough Linux distros to choose from. But better Linux compat is always welcome, I'd much rather see them put resources there than on a distro.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

there are already more than enough Linux distros to choose from

Found the n00b.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It doesn't seem proton is neglecting their core apps, instead it seems they are getting more people, so each service has enough people. https://proton.me/careers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

So why does Proton work on multiple products at the same time? Simply because:

  1. throwing more bodies at existing efforts has a point of diminishing returns and then a point when it even becomes counterproductive
  2. given the lengthy minimum time it takes to perfect services, starting earlier lets us deliver more to the community over the long term

That's why we bring new services to market earlier than some of you would like, but I can also say that it's never done if we believe it would compromise an existing effort.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/12qlcd8/100_millions_users_congrats_proton/jgr1zm3/?context=3

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