Ente – Opening Our Books(ente.com)
262 points by Sherex 1 day ago | 101 comments
tl;dr: Ente, the end-to-end encrypted photo storage service, has publicly opened its business metrics dashboard, showing real-time revenue, paying customer count, and registered account totals. The move aligns with the company's transparency-focused ethos, letting users and observers track the company's growth and financial health directly.
HN Discussion:
  • Revenue and account numbers alone don't reflect true business health without profit and expense data
  • Praise for Ente as a privacy-friendly, well-designed service worth supporting
  • ~Other companies like Buffer already do transparency more comprehensively including expenses and salaries
  • ~The transparency principle is admirable but execution flaws like truncated graphs undermine it
  • Questioning the motivation behind publishing these metrics