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Re: Dropbox Capture

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Post by [deleted] »

flyinglizard wrote: post #36
stblack wrote: post #15

Dropbox has lost its way. This has been true for awhile. I remember when Dropbox was great; it did one thing extremely well. Now it does a bunch of things, none of them well. This may not end well.

What can they possibly do that their core product is a commodity by now? I believe there’s a push in orgs (where most of the money is, no doubt) to streamline their tools, or at least reduce the number of vendors they receive invoices from. If Dropbox can have just one more essential tool in the mix they could keep their commodity service going too. Without it, it’s all too easy to replace with something from Google…

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Post by arenaninja »

toephu2 wrote: post #22

If you are on a Mac you can do screen recording for free with a non-beta app that comes with the OS: QuickTime Player (assuming Dropbox will eventually charge for their product).

how do I add arrows or multiple images? Preview is a notorious PITA in this aspect, worse than Paint

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Post by howmayiannoyyou »

Uuuugh... another half attempt by Dropbox to add value beyond file storage & sync. Half attempt is the key here... b/c the idea has value several iterations down the road if they can OCR/parse/infer intent from the screenshots.

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Post by spoonjim »

Here is exhibit A on a company that has exhausted its strategy but is compelled by the nature of Capital to seek additional growth. I remember seeing many years ago an anecdote of Steve Jobs telling Drew Houston to sell to Apple because Dropbox was just a feature, not a company (it was connoting that Jobs was wrong about that). Although Drew was right not to sell at that time it looks like Jobs was also right.

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Post by poisonborz »

runjake wrote: post #35

If you're tired of Dropbox's "be the kitchen sink" mission statement, I've been using SyncThing[1] and it seems like a great replacement for Dropbox. On Mac, be sure to install the cask version, which runs as an app: brew install --cask syncthing A pretty good, basic blog post on how to set it up (but again, use the cask version instead): https://routley.io/posts/syncthing/ 1. https://syncthing.net/

Plus it has all the features that was begged for on the Dropbox forum for years (like per-folder ignore rules https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Ignore-folder-...)

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Post by jimkri »

Palmik wrote: post #32

Interestingly, Dropbox has a second product in this space called "Screen Capture": https://www.dropbox.com/features/content-collaboration/scree... There are others as well: Loom, GetCloudApp, Gyazo and a few more. I have actually built one myself [1] ScreenBud.com, which is not ready for Show HN yet, but we already have >15000 users of our Chrome extension [2]. I am quite curious to hear from others about what you ar…

Ive used Loom before and really like it but they recently switched how many videos you can store on the free plan and it really cut down on how I can use it. I used it to send quick project instructions to team members that are overseas, they rely on it so they can replay it at a speed they are comfortable with understanding the instructions.

Its interesting Dropbox is getting into this. My first thought is users can use storage faster than they would with normal documents by making Gifs and other videos. In my Loom library I had 110 videos at one time that were between 2-5 mins long.

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Post by jpalomaki »

bachmeier wrote: post #40
neals wrote: post #2

I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That's just bloat to me. So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they're selling here. Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much differen…

> everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files Dropbox feels more and more like Evernote all the time. I don't know what is the purpose of this product. To get people to pay $10/month for their storage service? I can get a family plan from Microsoft with 1 TB of storage for each of six people, plus their office apps, for $100/year. I can get 2 TB from Google or Apple for the same price as Dropbox, but they…

For me the point of Dropbox is sync that works so well that I can even manage development projects on the shared folder.

In my experience the Microsoft syncing is not even close match.

This is likely also problem for Dropbox. For heavy users their main costs must come from bandwidth and processing - not raw storage.

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Post by epinephrinios »

droppedTheBox wrote: post #37

Don't understand. What's wrong with just pasting a screenshot or recording into Slack or your PM tool of choice? Adding Dropbox is just adding another layer of auth, sharing permissions, storage quotas, etc.... ugh

It should be seamless. You just record a video and it is instantly shareable. Could be useful for reporting UI bugs. You can also use the mic to describe the problem.

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Post by xemoka »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3
neals wrote: post #2

I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That's just bloat to me. So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they're selling here. Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much differen…

It’s screen recording/presentation tooling. Looks like a https://loom.com competitor.

Wow, even the Dropbox Capture landing page looks almost like Loom's...
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