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I think the top comments there show how sometimes the HN folks can get caught up in the details. I did a show HN today for a restaurant analytics concept and people commented on the ugliness of the launch page and over pixels.
Dropbox is definitely a case where a single person's vision was required to create a revolutionary product. Judging by the comments, leaving it to HNers as a group would have just resulted in a faster usb drive.
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "
Dropbox is definitely a case where a single person's vision was required to create a revolutionary product. Judging by the comments, leaving it to HNers as a group would have just resulted in a faster usb drive.
Representative quote: "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "
If you're a startup and you're pretty sure there's a market for your product, people telling you their gut feeling really doesn't matter imo.
Dropbox is definitely a case where a single person's vision was required to create a revolutionary product. Judging by the comments, leaving it to HNers as a group would have just resulted in a faster usb drive.
Was a great response, IMHO.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Representative quote: "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "
His statement is correct, and totally irrelevant when considering consumers.
That's the most important part, and the mostly often ignored in HN discussions
It's the same with the difference between the Apple I and Appple II
I think the top comments there show how sometimes the HN folks can get caught up in the details. I did a show HN today for a restaurant analytics concept and people commented on the ugliness of the launch page and over pixels.
People posting those sort of comments have nothing to give, except for their opinion. Keep getting stuff done, don't let them get you down :)
So I looked into my email to see when I signed up, it was 14 months after this post. I also found a gtalk chat log with the friend that recommended it, and it looks like my memory is quite wrong, I was just as skeptical as much of the linked HN thread:
>the thing about 2gb dropbox
>is i carry 6gb on my keychain
>and 8gb on my phone
>and i don't exactly trust them with important data
>also my iphone has shared folders that look just like any other computer on my network
>the keychain is kind of a hassle though and i mostly don't use it, i should probably throw it away