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LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)

74 points| lalmachado | 11 years ago |blog.meldium.com | reply

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[+] jasonshen|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] mrjatx|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] popmikeup|11 years ago|reply
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!
[+] eps|11 years ago|reply
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.

[+] jsherwani|11 years ago|reply
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!
[+] mephi5t0|11 years ago|reply
So they can properly create an uninstall tool? Still have shit behind after LMIn went non-free and couldn't properly uninstall everything...
[+] kenjackson|11 years ago|reply
Congrats to LogMeIn and Meldium. You should add the YC class to the title, so folks know it is YC company story.
[+] programminggeek|11 years ago|reply
I almost thought it said LogMeIn has acquired Medium. Weird.
[+] ddoolin|11 years ago|reply
Same. That was a very attention-grabbing title until I saw the reality of it...:)
[+] mrweasel|11 years ago|reply
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.

[+] borisjabes|11 years ago|reply
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."

[+] zhte415|11 years ago|reply
Bit of confusion regarding active vs passive voice in the title.

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

[+] domydeal|11 years ago|reply
Congrats to the Meldiun team! Nice job guys.
[+] aglazer|11 years ago|reply
Awesome team + product. Huge congrats!
[+] darklrd|11 years ago|reply
Congratulations! Amazing tool.
[+] brianr|11 years ago|reply
Congrats Brad and team!
[+] bradleybuda|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] progx|11 years ago|reply
First I read medium and thought "What?"
[+] K-Wall|11 years ago|reply
Slightly off-topic but I first read that as LogMeIn, Inc. has acquired Medium and was very confused.
[+] tootie|11 years ago|reply
I as well. I'm guessing most people did. Meldium is hard to say even in my head.
[+] EGreg|11 years ago|reply
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.

[+] TeMPOraL|11 years ago|reply
Exactly. I didn't know what LogMeIn is, but clicked on this thread because I read "Medium" in the title...
[+] comeonnow|11 years ago|reply
Same for me too, added to the fact I've never heard of Meldium
[+] Deivuh|11 years ago|reply
That happened to me too. I was just wondering why LogMeIn would acquire Medium, and why Medium would take the offer.
[+] crapshoot101|11 years ago|reply
Ditto! Was very confused at the application of long treatises to remote acesss!