{"id":47092,"date":"2025-03-14T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47092"},"modified":"2025-03-17T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:23:12","slug":"strongbox-acquired-by-applause-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/strongbox-acquired-by-applause-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Strongbox Acquired by Applause Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strongboxsafe.com\/strongbox-joins-applause\/\">Applause<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/strongbox\/comments\/1jaljzn\/strongbox_was_taken_over_by_the_company_applause\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/strongboxsafe.com\/strongbox-joins-applause\/\"><p>After years of working on Strongbox independently, Mark McGuill has made the decision to entrust the future of this exceptional product to our team at Applause.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/applause.dev\">Applause<\/a> is a team of indie developers who&rsquo;ve been building iOS and macOS apps since 2010.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Our goal isn&rsquo;t to change what makes Strongbox special&mdash;it&rsquo;s to build on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duck.haus\/@joesteel\/114157704870888525\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/duck.haus\/@joesteel\/114157704870888525\"><p>At least they said what was happening this time&#8230; that&rsquo;s an improvement, I guess<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/secrets-4-4-and-passkey-credential-exchange\/\">Secrets 4.4 and Passkey Credential Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/05\/bartender-acquired-by-applause-group\/\">Bartender Acquired by Applause Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"strongbox-acquired-by-applause-group-update-2025-03-17\">Update (2025-03-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/strongboxsafe.com\/founders-message\/\">Mark McGuill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/strongboxsafe.com\/founders-message\/\">\n<p>I started working on Strongbox as my first ever iOS app a very, very long time ago (more than 10 years!). It has obviously grown far beyond my wildest expectations. What originally began as an app purely for my own use, so that I could open those old Password Safe .dat files on my iPhone, has turned into my (and many others) indispensable password manager app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>However, ten years is a very long time, and, for me personally, it is time to move on to something different. I&rsquo;ll continue to use Strongbox every day and look forward to the developments and passion the team at Applause will bring. It is hard to maintain motivation for a project for so long and recently I began to feel that Strongbox needed more attention and resources than I could ever hope to bring to it. It has orders of magnitude more users now than what it had even in the last 2 or 3 years and really requires a very dedicated team. Even someone with the most generous imagination in world would struggle to call me a great product manager. I&rsquo;m a dev at heart. I&rsquo;m not the right person to properly build out an enterprise like Strongbox. Our users deserve a professional, dedicated team and an enthusiastic and fresh approach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=43356283\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applause (Reddit): After years of working on Strongbox independently, Mark McGuill has made the decision to entrust the future of this exceptional product to our team at Applause.Applause is a team of indie developers who&rsquo;ve been building iOS and macOS apps since 2010.[&#8230;]Our goal isn&rsquo;t to change what makes Strongbox special&mdash;it&rsquo;s to build on it. 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