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"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB" Apr 4, 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

• mozumder 9y ago
  Do companies normally take 10+ years to go public? I think it was much quicker during the dotcom era, but I don't know how that compares to previous decades... Oh and congrats to the team :)
  • lcalculus 9y ago
    https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-the-average-company-take-to-go-public https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-the-average-company-take...
  • deleted 9y ago
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• m-watson 9y ago
  Those comments are a lot of fun to read through. It seems like, at least on HN, people were generally positive about Dropbox. A lot of comments about solving a problem (more so for windows users) and having a good demo.
• artursapek 9y ago
  It's too bad they let that original URL die.
  • uptown 9y ago
    Here's the Wayback archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20070220080513/http://getdropbox.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070220080513/http://getdropbox...
• MrMember 9y ago
  There's always that one guy asking why a product exists when it's "trivial" to spin up and manage yourself.
  • FreakyT 9y ago
    That comment is my personal favorite HN naysayer comment of all time: > 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 Yes, absolutely trivial. Even a child could do it. /s
  • bobsil1 9y ago
    Just smelt some silicon, yadda, yadda, yadda. Trivial.
• dictum 9y ago
  BrandonM retells his experience reading a certain now-famous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051 Dropbox's Show HN is a reminder of how dismissing designers isn't such a wise idea for engineers ;)