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Drew Houston said (in an interview) that he viewed HN's response to Dropbox as extremely positive. A few people made critical comments but thousands of people s
by staunch 11y ago
Drew Houston said (in an interview) that he viewed HN's response to Dropbox as extremely positive. A few people made critical comments but thousands of people signed up and it was highly upvoted.
- icebraining 11y ago"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive" (3276 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- staunch 11y agoHN has grown so much since then. That might not seem like much of a response compared to what a top story gets now, but it was a big deal at the time. It was in the top 10 on the homepage for at least a couple days.
- tomhoward 11y agoYes that's true, but there was also a general feeling at the time (among investors, journalists, armchair experts) that cloud storage was a crowded space (there were like 8+ players in the space at the time [1]) and that Dropbox was either too late to the game or it was impossible for anyone to deliver a product that would appeal to the mass market. It took them a long time to raise funding as a result. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/