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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
In 3 years, we've - Built an amazing team and community - Launched 4 products (+8 mobile apps and 2 desktop apps) - Signed up 1 million users 👪 Lots more in the pipeline
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
1 million users. Bringing freedom to the internet!
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Andrew Milich
2 years
This article from @nytimes is an embarrassment and deeply misleading. Why publish an article with subtext suggesting that free speech, thought, and privacy shouldn't be absolute?
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Andrew Milich
1 year
The EU’s biggest privacy threat: The EU This week, an EU proposal was announced that should send chills down the spine of anyone who values their right to privacy. The document showed that the EU is on the verge of regulating strong encryption out of existence, exposing global
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Andrew Milich
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@DRBoguslaw One time, she ordered non sustainably sources coffee, and we had to kick her out of the restaurant
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@mualphaxi @X Max - we started @skiffprivacy as 2 Stanford alums because of these very problems. Want to host it on Skiff Drive or Skiff Pages? We have real-time editing, file hosting, and more
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
We're in the arena getting banned by authoritarian states
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Six months ago, Skiff was banned in Russia. Why? For providing a secure, free, and end-to-end encrypted way to communicate 🔒 Thanks to Skiff users who continue to use our products to preserve freedom online.
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
We were just suspended from Mastodon. Posts cited: How end-to-end encryption works and helps you 🔐 We need a freer, more private world, not a censored, arbitrary dystopia. @joinmastodon
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Better than the infinity stones
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 months
. @NotionHQ 's shipping faster than the speed of light💡 Just wait 1 month!
@typeoneerror
Benjamin Borowski👨‍🚒
2 months
Looks like @NotionHQ is full of minor updates today. Can now "Customize page" from the property context menu.
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Big launch today!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Quick Aliases are here! Skiff's new email aliasing product is a radically simple way to protect your privacy online Create your Quick Alias domain for free, and start using unlimited aliases online or offline To get started, open Skiff Mail on the web or on your phone, and
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
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Something is happening
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Shipping fixes at @skiffprivacy HQ
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Skiff @skiffprivacy is at a ~1 engineer per 100,000 user ratio and increasing Everyone interacts with users in our Discord/Reddit/Canny communities, making sure we build what matters
@mprkhrst
Matt
1 year
Antimetal is the opposite of a ZIRP AI startup: - we are 8 people, serving 1,000s of customers, 5 months after launching - no work-life balance, work nights and weekends - shipping product and research at breathtaking speed, making gobstopping amounts of money
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
3 months
Going into @neo accelerator with the best investing team @emilyycohen @apartovi 🗃️
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@annasofialesiv @annarmitchell Keep saying regular or societal norms will collapse
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Andrew Milich
1 year
So awesome to see @skiffprivacy on the cover of @itsfoss2 🗞️
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Andrew Milich
1 year
⚠️🚨 #4 on Hacker News right now 🚨⚠️
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Getting there
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Sleeping in the office means no commute
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
An absolutely unprecedented accomplishment 📈
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
BIG NEWS: Skiff Mail has received over 1,000,000 emails. All private, end-to-end encrypted, and owned by you 💌
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
3 months
End-to-end encrypted real-time collaboration is tough but @fileverse nails the experience
@fileverse
Fileverse
3 months
@betashop Weeeee always experiment w/ farcaster capabilities, even with dDocs — you can share your onchain doc as a frame on warpcast for anyone to flick through your document! 👇👩‍🏭
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@garrytan Big Tech is caught prioritizing censorship over free speech. No surprise. We started @skiffprivacy for this very reason.
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Andrew Milich
1 year
If 2 people buy Skiff subscriptions today and DM me, I'll build it in the next few hours
@KarlEmilNikka
Karl Emil Nikka
1 year
The contact management in Skiff is now on par with @ProtonPrivacy Contacts. We’ve been waiting for continuous two-way contact sync with Proton since 2017, and it has been planned since 2019. Will Skiff (launched in 2021) be quicker?
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Looking for a new email account?! We can help. 1️⃣ 0️⃣ tips for best security, privacy, and portability: 1. Choose a provider with the right features for you 2. Read their privacy policies/TOS thoroughly 3. Set up your account w 2FA
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
11 months
It's absolutely insane
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
11 months
We are only hours away from the release of the ENTIRELY NEW Skiff Drive app on iOS + Android
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Working on some native UI
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 months
Hello 👋
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@NotionHQ
Notion
2 months
Meet our new Global Head of Sales, Pravesh Mistry! In this mini interview, he shares how his South African roots shape the way he views the world, his go-to interview question, and what he’s learned about Notion thus far. We’re thrilled to have him at the helm of our sales
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Hi everyone :)
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Thoughts on having embedded file previews inside Skiff Pages?
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@guypbenson @NorthwesternU College is more about virtue signaling than virtue
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
If scaling systems to billions of objects sounds like a fun challenge, DM us :)
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Skiff is now receiving tens of millions of emails per week 😅 Every one is kept encrypted and completely private 🔒
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Update: We launched contact sync from Skiff to your phone today
@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
If 2 people buy Skiff subscriptions today and DM me, I'll build it in the next few hours
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Check out our talk at Devcon on building the privacy-first stack for consumer products, using @ethereum , @ensdomains , and @IPFS Lots of detail on encryption (can you use an ETH address for encryption?), data structures, and more 📜
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
4 months
If you're a college student, @neo is the #1 community for future startup founders & leaders Having gone from college student -> startup, Neo was there at every step - community, building, mentorship, and venture
@apartovi
Ali Partovi
4 months
Calling future tech leaders: Neo Scholar applications are open. Apply now! Past @Neo Scholars are crushing it in AI and beyond. (🧵...)
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Please contact me at rahul @ligma .maskmy.id
@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Big launch today!
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
@BritishFonzy @mualphaxi @X @skiffprivacy I graduated as the #1 engineering student in my class and made Skiff to support freedom - we collect no data, are end-to-end encrypted, and even were banned in Russia for it. I do agree that universities have become virtue signaling echo chambers more than centers for
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Big if true
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
Announcing: Skiff for Mac. Work + collaborate from your Desktop with total privacy and end-to-end encryption. Download here ➡️
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Got an email like this from a random Gmail account: Seems empty, but @skiffprivacy blocked one tracker? 🔭🧐
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Want a Skiff hat? Leave a Skiff Mail review on the App Store or Google Play store
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
. @skiffprivacy has more daily usage than almost every protocol here
@tokenterminal
Token Terminal
1 year
Protocols w/ the biggest 30d uptick in DAUs: 1. @friendtech 🆙 298.4% 2. @AcrossProtocol 🆙 281.5% 3. @cosmoshub 🆙 124.0%
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
This product is explosive
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
T-7 days to new product launch
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
#privacytools ✉️ | Email | @skiffprivacy 🚚 | Email Alias | @skiffprivacy 💬 | Chats | @signalapp ☁️ | Cloud storage | @skiffprivacy 📝 | Docs | @skiffprivacy 🌐 | Browser | @brave @firefox
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Agreed!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
The next generation of email isn’t privacy invasive AI or $30 per month. It’s about ownership, good design, and privacy built in. Skiff is proud to be on this list 🥳
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Big news
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Big news: Skiff Mail now supports subject + body filters - all end-to-end encrypted 🏷️🔒 We're the only E2EE email provider to do so. More at .
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
$24 of breakfast on @DoorDash Inflation is getting bad 🥺 @JoeBiden
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Try it out!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Big news: Skiff's macOS app is on the Mac App store 🎉 New features - - Default mail app support - Maintain position and size - Better performance
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
This is ridiculous. First, they banned the lightning cable, and then, encryption? Where does it end?
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
First the UK... now Spain? Fighting end-to-end encryption is a fight against freedom. The EU deserves better 🔒
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Next goal: One million emails received per day (likely quite soon)🚀
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
After 10 weeks... Skiff Mail has processed almost ONE MILLION emails 💌📨📮
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
4 months
Great profile of Notion's CTO and what's coming!
@FastCompany
Fast Company
4 months
Notion's new chief technology officer talks with Fast Company about competing against Slack and Google.
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 months
need to lock in more
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@ehalm_
Emmet Halm
3 months
can you spot when I decided to lock tf in?
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Privacy is more than encryption - it's owning your data, attention, and focus Noise canceling makes that easier than ever
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Andrew Milich
1 year
I'll be at the @paradigm consumer hackathon tomorrow for @skiffprivacy What feature should I build?
@gakonst
Georgios Konstantopoulos
1 year
strongly considering throwing a 1-day hackathon focused on consumer crypto apps in NYC end of October/beginning of Nov. pls indicate interest in the form below, and if we get enough we'll do something about it. we'll have mentors from popular apps/tools etc.
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Andrew Milich
2 years
How can you set up a custom domain? You'll need to set up 3 kinds of DNS records: MX, TXT, and CNAME - for mail forwarding, anti-spam, and mail sending 📩
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
I worked on this!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
Block all remote content by default? Could be coming soon to Skiff Mail 👀
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Andrew Milich
2 years
The best feeling
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Only README changes
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Privacy-focused search engines should default users to use privacy-focused products - messaging apps, email, VPN, drive, etc. Thoughts? @brave @Neeva @DuckDuckGo #privacy
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Loved working on this
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Now on the free tier: Display names, colors, and profile pictures - for EVERY ALIAS 🖼️ Settings -> aliases -> edit profile ✏️
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Andrew Milich
1 year
is still fully clean 🧽 @skiffprivacy
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@themarkup
The Markup
1 year
You can use Blacklight to scan for more potential trackers and be better informed about your data privacy. We highlighted the upgrades here:
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Researchers found significantly higher cognitive performance on individuals who used @skiffprivacy for 20 minutes versus Gmail users. Have you tried it?
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
3 years
Awesome
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
3 years
🌐 We at Skiff are excited to share that we’ve removed our waitlist and integrated fully decentralized storage into Skiff via a collaboration with Protocol Labs. Read more here 🚀🌐
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Andrew Milich
3 months
100 million users!!!! 💯💯💯
@ivanhzhao
Ivan Zhao
3 months
Last week, @NotionHQ passed 100M users! I found the photo I took after we reached 1000 users. And I still recall the day when we passed 1M in 2020 right before covid. I feel grateful, introspective. Looking back, there's so much learning, yet much remains unchanged... 1/n
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Andrew Milich
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A fresh now look... thoughts?
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@mizanrsharif @nytimes Those who can't do, teach Supporting terrorism is incompatible with being a "lawyer"
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Try @skiffprivacy , a whole new take on mail
@paulgb
Paul Butler
1 year
A billion startups to index and search your personal documents, but I keep typing “from:me has:attachment” in the GMail search bar.
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Andrew Milich
3 months
Notion Calendar on Android is a true, first class calendar experience. Delete the bloatware your device shipped with and get on @NotionCalendar 📅📅📅
@NotionHQ
Notion
3 months
We heard, and listened — @NotionCalendar is launching its Android app! Schedule and control your time on the go like never before. Multiple time zones. Auto-merged events. A clean, fast interface — and your favorite: Widgets! Get it now in the Play Store:
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Andrew Milich
2 years
What a great article
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
Today: Skiff Mail launches. Private, end-to-end encrypted, open source email, with wallet login and more. Thanks to @pierce for covering the Skiff Mail launch.
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Andrew Milich
1 year
We sponsor green cards + H1B and wouldn’t be this far without them
@Loganullyott
Logan Ullyott
1 year
The US admits about 200,000 international students from India every year. 4 years later, they graduate into a free-for-all fight for green cards. Fewer than 3% will stay long term. The student visa-to-green-card pipeline is broken, and it hurts everyone. Quick math:
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Andrew Milich
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@dwr Hello! How can we help?
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Will give you a refund if it's not launched in the next 5 days
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
We've done our own research and the results are shocking. Info coming soon
@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
@mualphaxi @X Max - we started @skiffprivacy as 2 Stanford alums because of these very problems. Want to host it on Skiff Drive or Skiff Pages? We have real-time editing, file hosting, and more
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Andrew Milich
1 year
We at @skiffprivacy wrote about this 3 months ago in the @WSJ Today, it's more true than ever.
@KarlEmilNikka
Karl Emil Nikka
1 year
@milichab @tdh @ProtonMail @TutanotaTeam @skiffprivacy Yes, the EU’s human rights-violating mass-surveillance proposal is horrible. It’s ironic that (if Chat Control 2.0 becomes a reality) we’ll have to move our data out of the EU to protect it. At least until it’s annulled for its obvious violations.
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Andrew Milich
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Immense launch of a game-changing sites product! No pain needed on pricey website upsells - just build your site in Notion
@NotionHQ
Notion
4 months
Introducing Notion Sites—the easiest way to make a website 🌐 We turned Notion’s "Publish" button into a full suite of features, including custom domains. To help you create personal websites, portfolios, travel guides, and more with just one click. Get started today at
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Andrew Milich
1 year
Contact import on Skiff just got a lot better - now, import contacts generated from Apple, Windows, or mobile devices👥 (It turns out that some contacts expect \n and some \r\n 🤦‍♂️)
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Andrew Milich
11 months
Only 5x! Happy Thanksgiving!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
11 months
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 We've published an update to make Skiff Drive downloads and previews 5x faster on the web ⚡
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Andrew Milich
1 month
You won't want to miss it🤭
@theJoshRedd
Josh Redd
1 month
The schedule just went out for the Make With @NotionHQ conference Oct 24 in SF! Lots of great slots but this one may be the most interesting to me 👀 Why? Because the speakers @milichab and @JasonBud co-founded @skiffprivacy , acquired by Notion - a tool that notably included
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 months
Running a private communications service that offers end to end encryption is always getting harder Constant legal and technical defense required
@balajis
Balaji
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France. His “crime” appears to be enabling free speech online.
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Andrew Milich
1 year
SendGrid consistently amazes me with how bad a product can be - Does not save data - Horrible authentication and user management (subusers??) - Ridiculous billing plans (pay separately for contacts, API, and sending mail?)?
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Representing @skiffprivacy at the @OpenCoreSummit this year 🔒
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Best website I've ever used
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
🌟Big announcement🌟 Introducing the new website Access to privacy-first communication and collaboration has never been easier!
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Our biggest release this week
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
You deserve to know everything about the products you use. That's why we've published 5 new pages explaining who's behind Skiff and how our platform works.
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Andrew Milich
10 months
Yet again, @GustoHQ fails completely to even explain what benefits are active for our team. Contradictions in support tickets, misleading UI, and bills that go nowhere. We'll be migrating off soon 🙏
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Freedom!
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
We keep our lives in our inboxes. Skiff Mail’s end-to-end encryption keeps your mail private and secure. No one — not big tech, not us, not anyone — has access but you. Signup for free ➡️
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Andrew Milich
1 year
@levelsio @levelsio Skiff isn't a temporary mail service. We'll happily cover your dispute fees instead of being on your block list. Check out the comments - clearly you have users using Skiff Mail and the product shouldn't be there.
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
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@thepatwalls
Pat Walls
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Shoutout to all the people who tell me I got lucky.
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Andrew Milich
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@KarlEmilNikka @ProtonPrivacy I built the current contacts sync last night in a few hours... We'll see if I have time this weekend :)
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
“App Store names can only be 2 characters or more” 🥹😩🤬
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
2 years
Unprecedented
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
Today, we're launching Skiff Drive: protect your files with end-to-end encryption, so you can share your work securely. Sign up to get 10Gb of encrypted storage for free 👇 What can you do with Skiff Drive? 🧵
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Check it out!
@MASQ_ai
MASQ dVPN & Browser priv/acc
1 year
🚀 Join us for an epic Spaces this Thursday featuring Skiff CEO @milichab and our project leader, KauriHero 🎉 Get ready for an insightful discussion on privacy led by @skiffprivacy & MASQ 🔐 Don't miss this one, mark your calendars! 🗓
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
1 year
Check it out 😀
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
1 year
Have you tried mobile month view? Now released on Skiff Calendar 📅
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@milichab
Andrew Milich
3 years
Working with @apartovi and @jennywang01 since the beginning has been one of the best decisions we made at @skiffprivacy .
@apartovi
Ali Partovi
3 years
I'm excited to share @SkiffPrivacy : if you use encrypted messaging, imagine fully-encrypted collaboration on docs & more. Register for early access at . Congrats @MilichAB and team -- we at @Neo are proud to back you! 🚀
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Andrew Milich
2 years
+Fast, great UX, and not built for ads ;)
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
2 years
It's time for the next generation of email: 🔒 End-to-end encryption 👤 Aliases and 0 personal info 💾 10 GB free 😉
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Andrew Milich
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@thesamparr Try @skiffprivacy - end-to-end encrypted email/notes/docs/drive
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