congrats to my favorite ycombinator product.
Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
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Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#22Why is this the number one story on the front page right now?
Don't get me wrong, I love dropbox. I use it everyday. It's a really impressive product.
But 30 points at 9 PST on hacker news just to tell me that dropbox is doing well? Seriously?
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#23I would argue that compete.com stats for something like dropbox are pretty inaccurate. However, that being said, the website traffic is probably much less than the actual growth. I've been to the dropbox site only a handful of times, but I use it every day with the file system integration. I'd love to see a graph of their bandwidth and storage growth. I'll bet that would be a site to behold. It's a great idea, and co…
It's better than what quantcast has to say:
http://www.quantcast.com/getdropbox.com
yowzers
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#24I love how Dropbox has a client for both Windows and Ubuntu. I use it all the time. That said, I wouldn't pay for this service.
In my opinion, that's a pretty shallow statement to make considering your usage and the amount of time that has gone into such sweet product. I'm a little sick of the whole freemium mentality TBH. Maybe I'm missing something re: the 'long tail' that very few ever reach.
I wouldn't worry about it really. For every non payer, there are more than enough people who see the value of dropbox.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#25Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#26Why is this the number one story on the front page right now? Don't get me wrong, I love dropbox. I use it everyday. It's a really impressive product. But 30 points at 9 PST on hacker news just to tell me that dropbox is doing well? Seriously?
It's a conspiracy of course--that's what you want to hear, right? :)
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#27Why is this the number one story on the front page right now? Don't get me wrong, I love dropbox. I use it everyday. It's a really impressive product. But 30 points at 9 PST on hacker news just to tell me that dropbox is doing well? Seriously?
It's a conspiracy of course--that's what you want to hear, right? :)
No, not at all.
I'm not suggesting people aren't voting for it, just that I'm not sure why they are.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#28There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)
My immediate reaction, having never heard of Dropbox, was "why not just use SVN".
You could get basically the same service, but uglier and slower, via webdav_svn and Trac. I did that for a while back in ~2005, but man was it slow. Maybe today, you could use Git with a cronjob that autocommits, pulls and pushes every minute or on mtime changes.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#29I would argue that compete.com stats for something like dropbox are pretty inaccurate. However, that being said, the website traffic is probably much less than the actual growth. I've been to the dropbox site only a handful of times, but I use it every day with the file system integration. I'd love to see a graph of their bandwidth and storage growth. I'll bet that would be a site to behold. It's a great idea, and co…
It's better than what quantcast has to say: http://www.quantcast.com/getdropbox.com yowzers
Although they do have a big disclaimer at the top that the site is not quantified and they have sparse data for whatever reason.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. I set up a dropbox for every team I work with. I think the idea of using a dropbox rather than focusing on syncing computer folders like what sugarsync does will reduce the fear of some people in uploading their folder contents. Dropbox being a folder by itself give people that sense of security and also it's a lot easier to explain!
Yup. I use dropbox every day, and yet I never think about it. Hallmark of something that "just works".
Dropbox here every day as well!