Giulio and I are looking for a job. We have been working at Clipperz for almost 3 years, investing our own money, time and energy. We cannot afford it any longer.
But don’t worry for the future of your favorite password manager, since we will take into consideration only job proposals that leave us enough free time to keep the service running. We won’t stop its development and we will continue to provide support to the about 20,000 registered users. Moreover, there will always be the option to run the Clipperz Community Edition on your own server.
To date Clipperz is a success and a failure all at the same time.
A success because thousands of users love the service and because the underlying zero-knowledge architecture is enjoying a growing acceptance and has spurred a stimulating debate over privacy and freedom for web applications.
A failure because we were unable to tell investors a convincing and easy-to-grasp story and therefore they didn’t see the huge business opportunity arising from zero-knowledge web applications. The presentation below is our latest attempt to tell this story. Hopefully better than we did before.
Feel free to send in your suggestions and to forward the presentation to reputable and passionate investors that could find it interesting. And, as usual, donations are always welcome!
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Oh, no
How can one of the coolest startups out there lack funding and idiotic look-at-me lol-sites get millions? Terrible. State of the venture madness of Bubble 2.0.
You guys rock. You made things I wasn’t sure could be possible happen. I really hope this takes off later on somehow.
Best of luck.
Alecco
all the best, but....
I think you need to “sell” your strenghts and that is the zero knowledge layer to people who have the capability and strenghts to build the apps you talk about - accountacy, gambling, crm, chat etc etc - trying to build all this yourself just doesnt equal a viable business, you will always lag a specialist provider and if one day they provide something similar to what you offer you will lose.
good luck!
user
Let's face it
men… let’s face it… in order to make some gooood money this stuff doesn’t work on the web… ok it’s pretty cool… ok sounds open source tasty… ok it’s nerdy weird stuff… but if you want to get rich start thinking to blogs, adsense, teenagers, sex, pills, loans… etc etc :-) oh, and forget passwords :-) my 2 cents…
without grouping or categories...
…clipperz is useless for me. so im very sorry to hear that u stop the develeopment, but i fully understand your position… i hope u 2 find a good job quickly.
good luck lb
can 20,000 users be wrong?
I’ve found Clipperz extremely useful & I’ve also paid for it. I don’t quite understand why I’d want to buy a monthly subscription but I definitely am happy to have paid the one-time fee and would also consider paying for upgrades when new features are added (such as grouping, categories or support for iPhone, etc.)
If there are far more people using the product on a regular basis than have paid for it, a tested approach would be to limit the number of records that can be created to, say, 15, for those who have not paid the licensing fee. Sure you could get around this by creating multiple personas but that would be more trouble than it is worth, esp. if the license was, what?, $25 or $30 U.S.
Eventually this or a similar product should be offered by a trusted name such as Microsoft, Yahoo, or Google but until then it represents a very good way to product key information and yet keep it more or less universally available.
Also, just a thought, submit this for a Webbie.
Good luck, guys!
Shit happens
Guys, lets state it - shit happens. A lot of looser startups can get money just for using buzzwords in their two slides deck. I never tried Clipperz, but it looks pretty solid and interesting application to use.
However, I do see few major flaws in your process of looking for money. First of all, your presentation is kind of messy. It’s too long and it’s in I-can-do-it-all-whatever style. Nobody wants to see that.
The second point, is that (I believe) your business model can be adjusted to paid membership or service, that you need to introduce right away and start making money (even if it’s just a little of money). You’ve got a good number of subscribers. Do the mass marketing and find out the right thing that your loyal customers are willing to pay for. Make your existing system as an engine, but allow it fade out, and concentrate on some specific service that you can start charging for. Once it works for you, remake the presentation deck and start it over.
If you need any help or advise I’d be more then happy to help you.
P.S. Great book on presentations http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321525655/prokhorenkous-20
— Olexandr Prokhorenko
Subscription
Hi guys,
Sorry to hear your running out of money, but not surprised. I would suggest paid subscription although very very low, as in 2 euro a month. of course you guys would have to upgrade the service for that, maybe bring in a UI specialist or user experience specialist. The site isn’t pretty or intuitive but I love love the idea and use clipperz all the time. Great idea but I think it hasn’t been implemented well. We’re all geeks we understand the technology and why it’s great but investors are like magpies they just want something shinny. How about approaching someone like 37signals.com ??
Anyway please consider a paid subscription and a visual upgrade before you give up. I couldn’t find a password app that suited my needs and had started building one until I found clipperz. i wish i had thought of it, if I did I’d be in California right now, in silicon valley, throwing this in everyone’s face until some one said “OK, OK, take some money just leave me alone”.
Don’t give up guys get out there. Oh and if you do decide to give up drop me a line and I’ll happily pick up the baton. Like all good inventions maybe your just ahead of your time.
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