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Comment by ploum | Hacker News Reader

Wow, thanks for the info. This is indeed quite a huge sum of money for such a cheap service from which you can easily migrate.

That’s a bit worrying.

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It depends. If the point of the VC money is to go after enterprise customers and to expand into other enterprisey software security products, then $100M seems reasonable to me, especially for the time when the investment happened. The VC market seems to have cooled quite a bit from when Bitwarden took that investment, so times change and maybe they were just striking while the iron was hot?

The $10/year individual plan wouldn't warrant $100M investment. But going after big companies who are going to commit to $X/year/employee or similar kinds of pricing packages might, especially if Bitwarden integrates with existing corporate directory systems and such for delegating and managing accounts.

should OSS users of Vaultwarden be worried?

Maybe. Vaultwarden is just a compatible server. All the clients (web, browser extension, desktop, cli and mobile apps) are still maintained by Bitwarden.

Since the extensions themselves are still open source and very stable, they will probably be forked

Please note that bitwarden server is floss too - vaultwarden is just a simpler backend to self-host (and without a dependency on Microsoft SQL server):

https://github.com/bitwarden/server

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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