Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

vladik.rikhter.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 139 posts

Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

#83

Post by jonmc12 »

aresant wrote: post #34

Spend your time and money to "earn" the pleasure of being more engaged & reliant on DropBox. I bet a very high percentage of people with high referrals wind up spending ~$100/yr after burning through that 16gig. Not trying to be a cynic - fun hack, but don't under value your time unless you want to use this as a learning experience :)

Well, you are basically saying don't waste time referring people to Dropbox given their incentives. I did this trick a few weeks ago when Vladik initially posted. Cost me $13 in total (+ about 10min of my time) to go from 2.8GB to 10.8GB. Followed instructions to a 't'. Although the 2nd day I bumped my min up to $0.10 - got click-throughs a lot faster, but I would recommend staying at the $.05 max.

Pure ROI, say I could have billed $30 for my 10min + $13 on adwords - then amortize over 4 years (assuming thats how long I would have my free 8GB with dropbox). I get my 8GB for $.90/month. Its no steal, but that is a solid deal.

Of course, now that this technique hit HN, I would expect the adword prices to go up. Great hack Vladik! Thanks again for sharing.

Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

#87

Post by ohashi »

Zhenya wrote: post #26
nimblegorilla wrote: post #6

Pretty cool. The cynic in me wonders if this could be a clever viral campaign by dropbox to get cheap online ads.

Definitely not a viral campaign. I know this guy personally and he is a clever little beaver.

I am amazed people don't have friends to push it to. I upped my storage by just suggesting it to friends and family.
Post reply on HN