I did all of them except the two Facebook ones. That was a bit too far for me.
Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
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#32Seems to me that Dropbox will have a pretty good asset here a la rapleaf. If they get enough people to voluntarily give them their twitter and facebook IDs, Dropbox will have a very accurate lookup service of email|facebook|twitter -- that's something a lot of companies are after these days.
Dropbox won't sell user data.
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#33Tell us why you love Dropbox = 128 MB. And to think of all the time and wasted energy we spent early on trying to get user feedback. Incentives are a wonderful thing!
It has been fun to watch this page: http://twitter.com/#!/search/i%20love%20dropbox
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#34I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
Tell everyone there to keep up the great work! I don't know how I survived before symlinking my entire life to my Dropbox account; it was just a mess of rewritable CDs, USB drives, and rsync commands.
Thanks for the heads-up that you won't publish anything to FB/Twitter without explicit permission as that's exactly what I came to the comments to find out. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of your users read hackernews though, so it'd be nice if you added a tiny "why are we asking you to link up" and/or "what will happen if I link up" blurbs explaining that you're not going to instantly make us tweet how awesome Dropbox is (which I would do anyway, but I absolutely hate services that auto-post after connecting).
Edit: This would really only be useful for powerusers unless you gave it a nice front-end interface, but would you consider possibly creating something similar to a .gitignore config for your Dropbox? I constantly get random junk files based on OS and editor that end up in my Dropbox folders that I'd love for the central service to just ignore when syncing (like Thumbs, DS_Store, vim swp, random editors throwing backups ending in ~, etc).
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#35I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
Nice idea! Thanks for the extra space.
Here's a question: I'm very inclined to pay for Dropbox, but I don't actually need 50 GB - I use 1% of that now. On the other hand, I would absolutely pay the same amount for 10 GB for 5 years. It would give me the warm fuzzy feeling of giving back and I would feel safer with the service. Have you ever discussed this model? Any plans to implement it?
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#36I thought this was a clever way of incentivising people to authorise Dropbox to access their Facebook and Twitter accounts. I don’t suppose I would normally have posted to my Facebook wall about Dropbox, nor my Twitter account, but now I have. Presumably the cost to Dropbox is quite minimal (768MB extra free space in total). It’s made me think about ways in which we could offer similar incentives at $dayjob.
Many people post to facebook & twitter from here: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals
Comparing these two pages is really interesting in the different prompts to post and the different results. We'll integrate the two pages more deeply soon.
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#37I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
Nice idea! Thanks for the extra space. Here's a question: I'm very inclined to pay for Dropbox, but I don't actually need 50 GB - I use 1% of that now. On the other hand, I would absolutely pay the same amount for 10 GB for 5 years. It would give me the warm fuzzy feeling of giving back and I would feel safer with the service. Have you ever discussed this model? Any plans to implement it?
There is still a lot of work to be done on different pricing plans for sure.
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#38I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
Tell everyone there to keep up the great work! I don't know how I survived before symlinking my entire life to my Dropbox account; it was just a mess of rewritable CDs, USB drives, and rsync commands. Thanks for the heads-up that you won't publish anything to FB/Twitter without explicit permission as that's exactly what I came to the comments to find out. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of your users read hack…
The explanation pages are on their way. I would like to see an extra message "won't post anything" under the facebook connect step's button. I bet a test would show at least a 20% increase in conversion on that step.
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#39That is some insane viral marketing, other companies should take note!
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#40I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…
I'd love to work for dropbox, if it weren't for the fact that I'd have to move. Great work, though, I'm a big fan.