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Don't forget the most famous one, "Why use this [Dropbox]? It's the same as FTP or email" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.co

• andrewstuart 9y ago
  Man that has to be framed and put on a wall for all entrepreneurs trying to catch a break. My original message could not be more strongly emphasised than by reading the "but hey I can just use FTP" in that thread. Here's the bit that I love the best: "It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. " That must be the quote of the century. DropBox is one of the MOST viral and revenue generating ideas there was - but here on HN when DropBox is announced, the idea killers all pop up quickly with "Hey this thing is the same as some unix utility and won't make money". Just magnificent. Also classic: "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" I love this - it's such a techhead way of thinking - you don't need an integrated easy to use product, all you need to do it type 40 arcane commands for exactly the same thing - it's trivial!
• Chris2048 9y ago
  It's not the same as FTP, because FTP is a technology, not a hosted service. Slap an interface, apps, and integration on top of FTP and it's similar.