My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive • Hacker News Board

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by nostrademons » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 7:57 PM UTC

I'm impressed.

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by iamwil » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:04 PM UTC

Kudos from myself as well. In fact, just today I was having problems with ftp and samba, and was wishing for a more graphical rsync. Perhaps it is true that a good way to do a web app is to implement a unix command. :) Good job. can't wait until it's out for the rest of us.

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by nefele » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:07 PM UTC

Drew,

I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that?

Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it.

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by markovich » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:13 PM UTC

It's pretty nice, and I was thinking to myself - hey cool, I could make an online backup of my code. Then it occured to me - who the hell is this guy, and why should I trust my code to be on his server!?

That's a huge issue you should consider. Why would people feel comfortable leaving their valuable stuff on "Drews" server?

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by jkush » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:14 PM UTC

nefele wrote: post #13

Drew, I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that? Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it.

I second that notion. I'm very impressed at how clean and easy you made it. What kind of a response have you gotten?

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by dhouston » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:17 PM UTC

markovich wrote: post #14

It's pretty nice, and I was thinking to myself - hey cool, I could make an online backup of my code. Then it occured to me - who the hell is this guy, and why should I trust my code to be on his server!? That's a huge issue you should consider. Why would people feel comfortable leaving their valuable stuff on "Drews" server?

data's stored on s3, and encrypted before storage -- there'll be another option to enter in an additional passphrase (or private key) when installing in order to encrypt your data before it leaves your computer (kind of like what mozy does.)

Re: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

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Post by dhouston » Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 8:25 PM UTC

nefele wrote: post #13

Drew, I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that? Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it.

thanks :)

a linux port is doable (mac will come first) -- everything's written in python and was designed from the outset to be portable. although this isn't the initial focus of dropbox, a linux port would be interesting for maintaining small web sites or web apps -- instead of using scp/sftp or equivalent you could just modify the files on your desktop and have them synced to your web host.