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has dropbox gotten acquisition offers? i feel like if I was microsoft I'd be chomping at the bit to integrate this into windows as a major selling point.
Awesome. Dropbox is an awesome product. I install Dropbox on every single machine I have.. it's one of the first things I install. And it's saved me countless hours. Now if only they could sort out the folder sharing model so large folders shared by someone else (who upgraded) don't use up my personal space... (yeah, I know they're working on it.. hurry up!)
Little bit of adjective inflation here? I mean, it basically just uploads and downloads files.
Except I didn't have to teach my mom how to use it.
Except that I never have to worry if it's working correctly.
Except that it works on every platform I use.
Except that it's just a folder on my computer.
These aren't features you put on a retail box, but they are the features that set Dropbox apart. "Just works" is incredibly easy to say but incredibly hard to engineer.
Awesome. Dropbox is an awesome product. I install Dropbox on every single machine I have.. it's one of the first things I install. And it's saved me countless hours. Now if only they could sort out the folder sharing model so large folders shared by someone else (who upgraded) don't use up my personal space... (yeah, I know they're working on it.. hurry up!)
Little bit of adjective inflation here? I mean, it basically just uploads and downloads files.
You obviously have no idea just how many things can go wrong in that apparently simple process. With dropbox, it just doesn't go wrong. That's what's awesome about it - flawless, works every time, and quasi-instant.
It's 20x quicker, if i want to give a file to my cofounder who's sitting next to me, to put it in our shared dropbox than to use any other method of sharing. Every other method of sharing takes at least 10-20 seconds or more. Dropbox takes half a second. (only exception being, of course, very large files, where usb sticks still help)
Awesome work, guys. I propose that, at least in HN circles, the official plural of Dropbox should be Dropboxen .
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Little bit of adjective inflation here? I mean, it basically just uploads and downloads files.
Yeah, it basically just uploads and downloads files. Except I didn't have to teach my mom how to use it. Except that I never have to worry if it's working correctly. Except that it works on every platform I use. Except that it's just a folder on my computer. These aren't features you put on a retail box, but they are the features that set Dropbox apart. "Just works" is incredibly easy to say but incredibly hard to en…
Whenever I demo something that I've built that seems mind-numbingly simple in the demo, I have to remind myself that things that work well should seem simple.
"That's it?" is a sign of success.
http://xs4all.nl - € 29,95 per month for 4M Internet.
http://internode.on.net - $49.95 per month for 1.5M Internet; 50 gigabyte cap - downloads and uploads are counted.
has dropbox gotten acquisition offers? i feel like if I was microsoft I'd be chomping at the bit to integrate this into windows as a major selling point.
Microsoft does already have Live Mesh ( http://www.mesh.com/ ) which is a very similar product/service. Live Mesh does per folder synching and you can invite other users to share or read only on an individual folder basis.
Makes me wonder how hard it is to download a file by hash (via the Linux client, parts of which are open-source), without having the file, or how easy it would be for HBO or some other media company to say "here are the hashes for scene rips of The Wire--please furnish matching account emails, thanks".