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I don't see the connection with "HN+dropbox". Dropbox was/is easy to do by yourself as a techie depending on your usecase. This is not easy/possible at all and
by tjoff 8y ago
I don't see the connection with "HN+dropbox". Dropbox was/is easy to do by yourself as a techie depending on your usecase.
This is not easy/possible at all and the closest I can think of, which has long ways to go in pursuit of this (and they aren't pursuing this directly (I think)), is something like NixOS - which seems to be quite popular on HN.
- fapjacks 8y agoThat's the joke [0]. But otherwise this is what I meant by "shed your expectations". Even if it were possible to prove something was not possible, how would you build it? There might be some free money in there somewhere. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- tjoff 8y agoI know(? it feels like I'm missing something). It is just that I feel the opposite. This is exactly the type of project that HN would like. And not heckle, because there are no similarities with the Dropbox case.
- fapjacks 8y agoI mean, at the time of my posting this, literally every other top-level comment but two are kind of heckling the idea. I agree that a (working) project would be very interesting to the HN crowd. But it definitely also is an idea that many of those same people would have doubts about, very much like the Dropbox Show HN comment.
- fit2rule 8y ago> Dropbox was/is easy to do by yourself as a techie depending on your usecase. Dropbox should have come from the OS vendors. It didn't, because we don't have OS vendors any more - we have ad agencies.