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hacker news readers are notorious for missing obvious value propositions. their comments on crypto will be remembered similarly to their comments on dropbox. ht

hacker news readers are notorious for missing obvious value propositions. their comments on crypto will be remembered similarly to their comments on dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

dorkwood 6y ago
While the top comment is certainly skeptical, I think it's worth pointing out that the majority of comments in that thread are positive: > This is genius. It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup ). If it really works as well as it looks in that demo then they nailed it. I'm both envious and inspired. I'll be surprised if YC does not fund them > I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that? Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it. > You know, your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now. Congrats! > Cool stuff indeed. I would give 5 stars for such an useful application. > It looks great man. I know you'll be accepted. The writing is on the wall. Posting your video here just seals the deal, and puts yourself out there. I didn't apply to YC, but if I did, I'd be putting my stuff up here as well. I'm surprized nobody else has posted like you did. That takes some balls and self-belief. > Kudos from myself as well. In fact, just today I was having problems with ftp and samba, and was wishing for a more graphical rsync. Perhaps it is true that a good way to do a web app is to implement a unix command. :) Good job. can't wait until it's out for the rest of us. > Looks wonderful. You might want to check on the trademark 'dropbox'. I know dropsend used to be called dropbox but had to change due to trademark difficulties. Otherwise excellent work. > Nice job! I was thinking something like this for a while and wonder why no one did it. It looks like dropbox just scratches the right itches for me. > Great job guys, hope to see you get picked up in the next session. Keep me posted for the mac version. > This definitely qualifies as Something People Want, and it looks nicely executed. Very cool! > Great demo, great product, great business, well done. > That's hot! > I'm impressed. > brilliant!

dorkwood 6y ago

While the top comment is certainly skeptical, I think it's worth pointing out that the majority of comments in that thread are positive: > This is genius. It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup ). If it really works as well as it looks in that demo then they nailed it. I'm both envious and inspired. I'll be surprised if YC does not fund them > I saw your short demo at BarCamp and I must say Dropbox looks great! Are you planning on having a Linux port as well, or is too early to talk about that? Also, as another SFP applicant I have to tell you that I really hope you get the funding - you deserve it. > You know, your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now. Congrats! > Cool stuff indeed. I would give 5 stars for such an useful application. > It looks great man. I know you'll be accepted. The writing is on the wall. Posting your video here just seals the deal, and puts yourself out there. I didn't apply to YC, but if I did, I'd be putting my stuff up here as well. I'm surprized nobody else has posted like you did. That takes some balls and self-belief. > Kudos from myself as well. In fact, just today I was having problems with ftp and samba, and was wishing for a more graphical rsync. Perhaps it is true that a good way to do a web app is to implement a unix command. :) Good job. can't wait until it's out for the rest of us. > Looks wonderful. You might want to check on the trademark 'dropbox'. I know dropsend used to be called dropbox but had to change due to trademark difficulties. Otherwise excellent work. > Nice job! I was thinking something like this for a while and wonder why no one did it. It looks like dropbox just scratches the right itches for me. > Great job guys, hope to see you get picked up in the next session. Keep me posted for the mac version. > This definitely qualifies as Something People Want, and it looks nicely executed. Very cool! > Great demo, great product, great business, well done. > That's hot! > I'm impressed. > brilliant!