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One of HN favourites (?) DropBox : https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-product/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-pr

• misiti3780 7y ago
  have you ever seen an early write up of the technology that powered that demo. I know it was all written in python but I was curious how they were doing it early on.
  • troquerre 7y ago
    They used rsync afaik.
    • person_of_color 7y ago
      Dropbox is a wrapper on rsync.. amazing.
  • vishnu_ks 7y ago
    This talk has a lot of details on the early version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc