Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)

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Post by fuelfive » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 2:37 PM UTC

Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
siteanalytics.compete.com

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Post by hotshothenry » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:04 PM UTC

i use dropbox all the time, it's great. glad to see them doing well.

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Post by bdotdub » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:14 PM UTC

hotshothenry wrote: post #2

i use dropbox all the time, it's great. glad to see them doing well.

Definitely! They deserve it, works better than any of the other solutions I've tried

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Post by genesoo » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

hotshothenry wrote: post #2

i use dropbox all the time, it's great. glad to see them doing well.

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!

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Post by unalone » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:22 PM UTC

Dropbox is tremendous. I use it for backup and for sharing files and pretty much for everything else that I can.

I've never heard of SugarSync. And Dropbox is still a lot below a site like Box.net: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/getdropbox.com+sugarsync.co...

Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)

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Post by jmtame » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:24 PM UTC

There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)

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Post by MicahWedemeyer » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:34 PM UTC

I 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 congrats to all involved!

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Post by dpeq » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:35 PM UTC

Does this include traffic to the web interface?

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Post by ams6110 » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:38 PM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #6

There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)

My immediate reaction, having never heard of Dropbox, was "why not just use SVN".

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Post by smokinn » Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:47 PM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #9

jmtame wrote: post #6

There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)

My immediate reaction, having never heard of Dropbox, was "why not just use SVN".

SVN is for version control of files. Dropbox is simply for sharing/syncing files where you don't need a full history.

I use it on my laptop/home/work computers. If I have a file I need on another computer rather than vpn into work and send it over or ftp into a server and drop it there to pick it up later I just throw it in the dropbox and it syncs to all computers. It's nice.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that dropbox does keep a version history of your files. I just don't use that particular feature.