Skiff, an encrypted electronic mail and productiveness startup, is being obtained and close down via any other productiveness suite corporate, Perception. Skiff customers have simply six months earlier than their electronic mail and all different knowledge are burnt up. In case you arrange forwarding earlier than the shutdown date, Skiff says it’s going to stay forwarding your electronic mail to any other provider for the following 12 months.
Skiff’s web page has been changed with the acquisition understand and a hyperlink to a knowledge migration web page, which says, “We can be final down Skiff’s product suite after a 6-month sundown length.” Acquisitions occur at all times, however on this case, there shall be no switch or continuation of provider over to Perception. Customers will lose their @skiff.com electronic mail cope with and all knowledge shall be deleted, so export your mail quickly. Skiff has export services and products to be had at https://app.skiff.com/dashboard/?settingTab=export.
Dropping your electronic mail cope with is usually a nightmare, as it will possibly really feel nearly unimaginable to chase down each and every provider you’ve got tied for your account. In accordance with the pile of posts inundating Skiff’s account on X, Skiff customers appear beautiful disillusioned via the transfer. The primary web page of skiff.com does not even point out the upcoming shutdown. An indication-off reads, “We sit up for proceeding to serve you,” so it is simple to think that the provider will stay operating.
You best be told in regards to the coming near near shutdown after scrolling down, clicking the small “migrate your knowledge” hyperlink on the backside of the web page, and opening the primary FAQ solution. Within the fourth paragraph, you in spite of everything be told in regards to the six-month caution. Burying the lede beneath the entire self-congratulatory acquisition information makes Skiff customers appear to be a disposable afterthought.
After receiving court cases, Skiff spoke back via announcing, “We deeply say sorry for the inconveniences brought about,” and the corporate will now stay electronic mail forwarding operating “thru 2025 for three hundred and sixty five days going ahead.” Skiff was once a public provider for simply two years and had 2 million customers; it was once noticed via some as a rising competitor to services and products like Proton Mail. Skiff began at $0 monthly however had a number of top class plans that added extra garage, electronic mail addresses, and customized domain names for $3–$12 monthly.
Skiff had raised $14 million from quite a lot of big-name undertaking capital traders like Sequoia Capital, Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. Publicly, the corporate is dedicated to customers and privateness, however the ones VCs wanted a go back on their funding. Perception does not have the privateness focal point that Skiff had, in order that complete thought turns out useless.
Perception began as a note-taking app that competed with merchandise like Evernote however now appears to be obtaining its means into providing a full-blown productiveness suite. The corporate has a calendar app, a doctors app, a wiki editor, an AI chatbot, and undertaking control device. With Skiff, there’ll now possibly be an electronic mail provider, striking Perception beautiful just about Google Workspace or Administrative center 365.