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LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)

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Congrats! I've seen the problem of group password management over and over again at so many companies. I hope your team's happy with the outcome and that you get to keep working on making this solution even better.

Watch out, Meldium, LogMeIn likes to completely change it's game plan on its customers (LogMeIn mobile App drama) with zero sympathy. I wonder how they'll treat an acquisition.

We're nervous too. This is 2 apps we're dependent on getting acquired and potentially completely mangled. The first amazingly shut off all support for the UK (We're UK-based) immediately. Better for customers? Ha!

Boris from Meldium here. While I can't make promises, we intend to invest and improve our service for years to come!

Why can't you make promises?

Because they sold the company. The decisions aren't theirs to make. Tis the nature of acquisitions.

Nonetheless, congrats to their team.

Are you referring to the retirement of LogMeIn Free and the "I've been using it for years with 100s of customers (in violation of half of your EULA), how could you do this to me??!" wailing and theatrics that followed?

That was an absolutely brilliant move on their part. They basically gifted all their over-entitled and obnoxious freeloaders to TeamViewer :) If anything, I'd be happy to get acquired by a company that got their shit together.

I'm referring to the LogMeIn Ignition drama, the mobile app, not their free subscription.

LogMeIn had a $29 or $39 (I forget) application called LogMeIn Ignition that was sold as a method to connect to your computers. The expectation, rightfully so, was that this extremely expensive (for a mobile app) app was all the user needed to access X amount of computers using LogMeIn Free. There was never, back then, any mention that you needed to ALSO pay a subscription fee to access devices.

Then out of the blue the users were told that they had to pay for a LogMeIn subscription to access their computers.

That is scummy as hell and plenty of corporate customers (myself included) have migrated away from them and now use paid services at TeamViewer, etc.

Some users, like myself, bought LogMeIn Ignition for emergencies. I don't think I ever even used it. I bought it specifically to remote in to my mediaPC and my desktop at home in the event I needed to retrieve a file or fix my Plex server.

I'm totally on their side about making MSPs and IT consultants who used it as a jumping point to their clients computers pay. They should have done that a long time ago - the difference is they didn't pay for an app at all. I paid more than I've paid for any mobile app for Ignition.

I am an Ignition user and at first I got 6 months free Pro license and then they sent a "clarification" saying that Pro wasn't required to continue using Ignition after these 6 months. Ignition basically remained as it was - free (though they did butcher the communication about that).

You're a newer user, I believe. They gave 6 months after the Ignition users flipped out about having SEVEN days to upgrade their accounts. I've had Ignition for 3+ years.

It's been awhile, I could be misremembering things a bit.

Meldium is an amazing tool. We use it at Screenhero and it's been indispensable. The acquisition makes perfect sense, since Meldium truly does "LogMeIn"! Congrats to the amazing team behind Meldium!

So they can properly create an uninstall tool? Still have shit behind after LMIn went non-free and couldn't properly uninstall everything...

Congrats to LogMeIn and Meldium. You should add the YC class to the title, so folks know it is YC company story.

I almost thought it said LogMeIn has acquired Medium. Weird.

Same. That was a very attention-grabbing title until I saw the reality of it...:)

I'm a little curious about Meldium now, but I can't find any explanation as to how it works.

Just a short text, flowchart or a video would have been useful.

Boris from Meldium here. One of our customers wrote a great description on our blog (http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/5/19/the-web-setup-envy-la...) which I'll paste here:

"The actual implementation continually blows my mind. You're basically using a man-in-the-middle attack for good, if I don't betray my poor understanding of the concept. A less malignant analogy would be to liken it to the way telephone companies operated switchboards before individual telephone numbers connected people directly. You had to call the central and ask the operator (i.e. Meldium) to talk to your friend Frank McFakeperson in Ipsum, South Dakota (i.e. MailChimp) and the operator would patch you through to them seamlessly."

Does that imply that the browser extension does the MITM?

It's server-side and the browser extension unpacks the result.

How can you do a MITM server-side?

Is there any way to integrate internal-only cloud hosted applications with Meldium? It looks awesome, in a similar space to OneLogin which is incredibly clunky by comparison, but for our usage, it needs to work with our internal apps too.

If they're Internet accessible then yes! Feel free to email us (support at meldium dot com) to talk about it.

Bit of confusion regarding active vs passive voice in the title.

I am curious, however, how audit trails are followed by both services.

Congrats to the Meldiun team! Nice job guys.

For those curious, Meldium is from YC W13.

Awesome team + product. Huge congrats!

Congratulations! Amazing tool.

Congrats Brad and team!

Thanks Brian! We have some big ambitions to extend our SSO / password vault to way more apps and devices, and we think LogMeIn is an awesome partner to help us kill off passwords completely.

First I read medium and thought "What?"

Grats Meldium!

Slightly off-topic but I first read that as LogMeIn, Inc. has acquired Medium and was very confused.

Ditto! Was very confused at the application of long treatises to remote acesss!

I as well. I'm guessing most people did. Meldium is hard to say even in my head.

I have never personally heard of them, and it is indeed hard to say. I have no idea why you've been downvoted.

Are we as commentators expected to keep up with every YC acquisition?

Same for me too, added to the fact I've never heard of Meldium

Exactly. I didn't know what LogMeIn is, but clicked on this thread because I read "Medium" in the title...

Same here. Medium posts are sexy :-)

That happened to me too. I was just wondering why LogMeIn would acquire Medium, and why Medium would take the offer.

Yeah I also thought it was about Medium, even after reading it and coming back here.

I was wondering why Medium is suddenly so gung ho about security.

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