Dropbox is absolutely fantastic.
Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
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Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#42Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.
Your mental leap from "They don't want to partner with my company" to "They don't want to make money" is a bit off.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#43Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.
The first and largest obligation that Dropbox has is to their users, not to one of the many partnership emails they probably get constantly. Really, your last sentence there is unnecessary.
If you're posting a bizdev email, I would just assume you would respond, even if it's with a "Sorry, we're heads down on other stuff" response.
3 weeks without a response makes me think they don't even bother reading it.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#44Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.
Your mental leap from "They don't want to partner with my company" to "They don't want to make money" is a bit off.
If they want to reply with the fact that they don't want to partner with us, that's fine. We simply wanted to add the feature to our enterprise application and were ready to pay licensing for 2000 users (and growing daily). The problem is, they didn't even respond with that - so my assumption is the bizdev email is being forwarded to /dev/null at the moment.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#45Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.
If your email to them reflected this tone in any way, I can see why they didn't answer.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
My immediate reaction, having never heard of Dropbox, was "why not just use SVN".
What I love about Dropbox is that you don't have to check in/check out every time you make the slightest change. The versioning is implicit, which is the way it should be for most personal files (although it would be a disaster for SCM). I've been using Dropbox to sync shell configuration files across several (4+) machines and it's a dream come true. I now have versioned bashrc files, my vim plugins, on every machine…
I'm currently using Dropbox to sync my todo list (ActionGear on Mac) with my other Macs, as well as my Adium preferences and chat history. So useful.
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#47i use dropbox all the time, it's great. glad to see them doing well.
Agreed - I use it nearly daily. I can honestly say it is one of the few apps that has proven so invaluable to me that I have been inspired to tell countless friends, associates and customers about it...
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#48As much as I like DropBox, you have to take dl.getdropbox.com out of the equation to get an accurate comparison, because dl is used for sharing files with third parties and even hosting files on the web.
In general, it's hard to look at web traffic statistics alone for a product like Dropbox because in some use cases, it can be doing its job perfectly without you ever needing to go to the website. A surprising percentage of our active users basically never go to the site!
Yep, active, heavy and paying dropbox user, but have never been to the website
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#49Dropbox my favorate!!! Had recommended many friends to use it and they love them too! Keep going! :)
Re: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
#50I love how Dropbox has a client for both Windows and Ubuntu. I use it all the time. That said, I wouldn't pay for this service.
And they support Mac too! So I can have my files available all across my machines now (Mac, Ubuntu, XP, ordered by use frequency)
:)