[RuleOfBirds]

I think the gotchas aren't for the early adopters and power users. It's for the people who will eventually make up the larger, more lucrative percentage of their user base starting with the friends and family of early adopters who are recommended to it.

Once they're set up with it, the idea of "importing and exporting between dozens of password managers" is meaningless. And gotchas aren't always limitations but can be "positive" like well meaning features, integrations, your company using it (so you too), etc. Lock-in comes in many forms.

[imwillofficial]

I have rotated out and back in to BW at least 3 times.

Hardly locked in.

[_verandaguy]

Out of curiosity, why so many rotations away (and back to) BW? Most people I know stick with a single password manager almost permanently, or at least unless their manager has some kind of earth-shattering vuln announced that just shakes their trust enough to move.

[imwillofficial]

I moved to RememBear, they recently went EoL. Others were trying KeePass and Password safe as local options.

Basically chasing the new shiny.

[_verandaguy]

Gotcha. And small world, until recently I worked at the company behind Remembear. Shame it had to be sunset.

[imwillofficial]

I loved that software more than any on my Mac. It just made me happy, the thought that went into the small stuff tickled me.

[_verandaguy]

I'll pass it on to the team! The designers and product people put a ton of work into making both RB and Tunnelbear delightful, and I'm glad it's making a difference :)

[_verandaguy]

That's a good point. I figure lock-in might hit the enterprise users hardest down the line.