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Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by everfrustrated »

bithavoc wrote: post #83
xp84 wrote: post #64

I'm continually impressed that Dropbox continues to exist, so long after their primary product offering was so thoroughly sherlocked by the big two B2C companies (Google and Apple) and the big two B2B companies (MS and Google). Especially because I've never worked anywhere that used Dropbox, so they don't have the long-tail life support legacy B2B money keeping them afloat like say, Lotus Notes did. B2C was lost to t…

agree, also I believe box.com was smaller than Dropbox and it seems like they’re still alive, it’s crazy to me.

Furthermore, they're both public listed companies.

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by nicholasjbs »

We were among the first Paper users (starting from the private beta). We loved the product for the first few years, but then it stagnated. We finally switched away from it a year and a half ago.

Their export feature has been broken for over a year. Support hasn't helped, and our data is still trapped.

A sad end for a once promising product.

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by privatelypublic »

bayindirh wrote: post #36
scarface_74 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With either Google or Microsoft, you get a complete office suite for the same price including storage

For various reasons, I have all three of them. There are some missing things in Google and Microsoft's offerings. Namely: 1. App integration (3rd parties can access to a single folder in your Dropbox, allowing "purchase to Dropbox" directly. Many merchants automatically update the files if they receive updates, too. 2. Auto OCR, incl. handwriting. My old comics which are not English are OCRd, and I can do full-text s…

Does dropbox still N-way "double dip" on #1 by counting the shared folders against your and the authors storage?

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by SmellTheGlove »

hibikir wrote: post #48
ianstormtaylor wrote: post #18

The way Dropbox has mismanaged Paper over the past decade, and squandered so many opportunities in the productivity tools space, has been one of the most frustrating things to watch. Dropbox bought Hackpad and launched Dropbox Paper a decade ago! Paper was awesome at launch — so much less friction than Google Docs for teams back then — and had a good internal product team behind it, but leadership failed to see the p…

Stripe used to live and dir internally off of hackpad with some custom search engine attached to it. It was all binned after the Atlassianfication, but I don't think many devs saw the move away as positive.

Oh man, hackpad brings back memories. It was so simple. I liked Paper for the same reason.

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by jitl »

echelon wrote: post #45
aurareturn wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Side note: Why do people like Notion? I just can't get into it. It feels like every time I type, some autocomplete thing pops up and stops my typing. I just went back to the good old Notes app.

Notion feels like Python transpiled to React, brought to you by the Atlassian Jira team. I do not enjoy it at all, and I hope Obsidian eats their lunch.

So far the Obsidian folks don’t seem interested in our lunch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by brundolf »

I feel like Dropbox has never figured out how to expand beyond folder sync. Which, it's still a fantastic folder-sync client and I'm a very happy customer of that product. But I mostly just have to swat away all the other things that pop up because I don't need them. And folder sync seems like a dying market, as fewer and fewer people work with files on disk

Re: Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

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Post by dtkav »

echelon wrote: post #45
aurareturn wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Side note: Why do people like Notion? I just can't get into it. It feels like every time I type, some autocomplete thing pops up and stops my typing. I just went back to the good old Notes app.

Notion feels like Python transpiled to React, brought to you by the Atlassian Jira team. I do not enjoy it at all, and I hope Obsidian eats their lunch.

I'm with you. I've been working on making Obsidian great for work with real-time collaboration, SSO, and the ability to have fully private document collaboration [0].

Performance aside, it's crazy that in the age of Claude Code people don't insist on having their docs local, private, and in markdown.

[0] https://relay.md

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