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Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
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Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#12Is this a marketing trick of some sort? I'm getting a login form and that's it.
Ah, sorry—that’s my fault. I didn’t check if you could access the page when not logged in.
Basically they offer a number of options to get some extra free space for their service. Giving them some feedback, linking your Twitter and/or Facebook accounts, and posting about why you “love Dropbox” on your Twitter / Facebook account once authorised.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#13Tell us why you love Dropbox = 128 MB. And to think of all the time and wasted energy we spent early on trying to get user feedback. Incentives are a wonderful thing!
Not sure how accurate this feedback is though
Not much of a feedback if you are asked why you love dropbox. I don't know why someone would _not_ love dropbox...
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#14I love dropbox but giving it complete access to my facebook besides all my files is pretty much handing my "social life" and my "work life" to a single company.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#15Here's a more simple task I was able to perform for 50GB of space: 1.) Sign up for a $9 50GB membership. 2.) Go through their wizard to set up a recurring $9 Paypal payment. 3.) There is no step 3. Time spent: 3 minutes Karma spent: You support a great company that doesn't screw you over.
I don't even use Dropbox, but you made me feel bad because I have an account and used the free space a few years ago, so now I'm pro. Damn you!
Totally worth it for their checkout process though, the way it automatically switched to "Visa" is a card starts with a 4 is awesome.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#16Here's a more simple task I was able to perform for 50GB of space: 1.) Sign up for a $9 50GB membership. 2.) Go through their wizard to set up a recurring $9 Paypal payment. 3.) There is no step 3. Time spent: 3 minutes Karma spent: You support a great company that doesn't screw you over.
I don't even use Dropbox, but you made me feel bad because I have an account and used the free space a few years ago, so now I'm pro. Damn you! Totally worth it for their checkout process though, the way it automatically switched to "Visa" is a card starts with a 4 is awesome.
Be sure to check out the "selective sync" folder functionality in their betas (which are pretty stable). Selective sync allows you to specify what folders you do and don't want synced on a machine by machine basis.
This allows you to use your Dropbox for personal and work, and only sync your work stuff to work machines and vice versa.
There's some great file versioning stuff in there as well.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure how accurate this feedback is though
Not much of a feedback if you are asked why you love dropbox. I don't know why someone would _not_ love dropbox...
Closed source binary blob needed for client. Meaning it doesn't work on PPC/MIPS/ARM computers. (Not important to most, but it's a valid technical reason why not.)
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#18Maybe it was just me, but I totally didn't "get it" at first that these were sort of steps that build on each other and should be done in order.
So it seemed really strange to me that I had to connect my twitter account before I could follow @dropbox, and the error message you get when you click on the follow one before the auth one is not very descriptive.
Otherwise, really cool offer, thanks guys.
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#19I trust Dropbox immensely. I clicked all of those buttons without really reading the specifics.
1. I trust that they're not doing anything scummy or underhanded. My life's on Dropbox, and they're not going to do anything to reduce that level of trust.
2. If I ended up accidentally Tweeting that I love Dropbox, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
This said, the messaging was very clear, and everything behaved as expected. Great work as usual, guys.
Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
#20256mb for logging on to facebook? PFFFT that's 5Gb minimum. I'm 2 months without login in to Facebook now and this isn't enough to kill my downtime.
Increase the incentive ;p