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The irony here, is that Drew jokes about how Dropbox is going to solve these ridiculous file name versioning convention with their product in their famous YC ap
by ramraj07 7y ago
The irony here, is that Drew jokes about how Dropbox is going to solve these ridiculous file name versioning convention with their product in their famous YC application:
> Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.
(The answer need not be related to your project.)
> The ridiculous things people name their documents to do versioning, like "proposal v2 good revised NEW 11-15-06.doc", continue to crack me up.
https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox
And yet here we are a decade and change later and Dropbox, while having solved "a" problem, sits like a ridiculous behemoth leaving it's users hungry for so many other pain points to be addressed by another savior, including especially this one problem they said they're gonna solve.
- pier25 7y agoDropbox still hasn't solved many of its core issues but it has been investing in Paper (which I personally have never seen anyone using) and all that design crap from a couple of years ago. I introduced a lot of people to Dropbox like 8-9 years ago and after using it to share files with other people I found out the hard way it's a terrible tool for that. I then used it for a couple more years to share files between my machines but they haven been introducing so much crap in their desktop app that I moved to sync.com.