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Yes, you can. The thing is that Github is still intimidating for a lot of people. They can use this as a simpler alternative.
If someone put a simple UI in front of github pages, I think they'd have a winner...
> Brace is the new way to host websites This website needs to get over itself before I'll pay any attention to it.
You were this offended by a cheap little marketing quote? What do you suggest? Brace is kinda like 50~ other services, we just have a nice UI and are easier to understand. Check it out!
How is this different than backlift - https://www.backlift.com is already doing the same thing.
So there are a handful of other services doing this same basic concept (see other comment), and none of them seem to have a story about how this scales past a single developer: sure, you can share the Dropbox folder and all work in the same place, but on something like a website with common CSS files and other centralized assets it seems like that would rapidly become unmanageable.
Surely Dropbox itself will offer metered web hosting from DB folders soon enough. Google Drive already touts itself as a web host, despite not publishing official limits.
Maybe Dropbox will just acquire the one that becomes most popular? Let the market pick a winner, then buy it!
Great idea and awesome landing page -- sat through the introductory video and was really impressed with the simplicity and ease of the idea. Also - would you like to say anything about PHP/scripting support? I saw some PHP files in the folder that was copied during the demo vid, was wondering about support for that
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ie: the majority of computer users?
Seriously: the only reason Dropbox exists and is wildly successful is that "normal file synchronization" is such a pain, even for us hackers, let alone mere mortals. There's a reason that you see Dropbox peeking out of the system tray of so many business professionals and other non-techies. Why not piggyback off that success?
Why would I use this and not GitHub Pages?