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It's been fascinating to follow Drew's story from the link to the early video on HN, to the YC application as a solo-founder to a "nine-digit" offer. This speak
by atldev 15y ago
It's been fascinating to follow Drew's story from the link to the early video on HN, to the YC application as a solo-founder to a "nine-digit" offer. This speaks to the importance of a good product. When Dropbox was pitched early on, everyone would point out how many competitors there were. Drew would silence the crowd by asking "how many of you actually use one of those services?"
It's all about the product.
- technoslut 15y agoIt is all about the product but it's not as if Dropbox isn't facing some very serious competition. iCloud, G-Drive and Skydrive are all concerns. Dropbox's advantage may be being platform agnostic but one has to wonder if Dropbox's fate may eventually be the primary storage of pirates. There have already been stories written regarding the content owners' interest of litigation.
- llambda 15y agoWhile I agree with your central point that Dropbox faces competition (still, who does't? this isn't inherently bad) note that as of yet iCloud doesn't exactly let you solve the problem of syncing any document across devices. Although I'm assuming this will either become integrated or could be made possible via the iCloud developer API.
- icebraining 15y agoone has to wonder if Dropbox's fate may eventually be the primary storage of pirates That's further reinforced by the existence of Dropship[1] (although I don't know if it still works), which enabled people to get copies of any file in the whole Dropbox network with just its hash, by taking advantage of their deduplication techniques. [1]: http://forwardfeed.pl/index.php/2011/04/24/dropship-successor-to-torrents-eng/ http://forwardfeed.pl/index.php/2011/04/24/dropship-successo...
- Talon 15y agoDropship no longer works.