Does someone know the organizational structure of Proton and Tutanota? How democratic is it? How hierarchical is it? How are decisions made? How are tasks determined and distributed?
Does someone know the organizational structure of Proton and Tutanota? How democratic is it? How hierarchical is it? How are decisions made? How are tasks determined and distributed?
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I was thinking about incentives and motivations. Are they motivated by profits?
I was also thinking about how sometimes listening to everyone in a team can save them from failure. Do Proton and Tutanota listen to everyone?
I'm pretty sure tutanota is just another company with employees doing their boring 9 to 5 job. They have an admirable goal, but I'm not too fond of how they go about it (the whole "use our app, the browser or bust" is, all things considered, a pretty big mistake IMHO), and the people from tutanota I have interacted with didn't strike me as specifically "driven".
I can't speak for proton, however. I have used it, it also doesn't let people use email clients. So, maybe it's better than tutanota, probably, I guess. On the other hand, tutanota has their app on f-droid, and proton doesn't.
Either way, if they really cared about E2EE and email, they would have extended the existing, instead of reinventing the wheel. Yes, it's harder. But it would actually foster natural transitioning of users over time, and it would make a deep, lasting impact, instead of essentially being a "proprietary platform" with apps (open source or not).
Not OP. But I’m personally curious about the question regarding how decisions are made, but with more focus from the perspective of user experience. As in, how do they decide which features to focus on?
While I’m a fan of Proton, sometimes they seem to be doing too many things simultaneously, which is good but I worry them spreading themselves thin.
How do they do user experience research, especially with many people in the privacy community usually turning telemetry off? What do they rely on to make decisions about features and user experience? Do surveys work for them? Who make the decisions afterwards?