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Dropbox Acquires Reclaim.ai
- Lightbody 2y agocofounder here -- happy to answer any questions :)
- no_wizard 2y agoSo how much your net worth increase? How well did your employees exit?
- no_wizard 2y agoI guess not all questions are welcome :( So much for any questions
- henryshapiro 2y agoAs mentioned in that blog post, our whole team is coming along to keep building Reclaim + beyond :) All 22 of them are super excited.
- no_wizard 2y agoNot the question I asked though. I’m far more interested in knowing how well everyone did exit wise, as that is a data point that would be most useful to the general public.
- ppp074 2y ago[dead]
- tonytamps 2y agoCongratulations on your success. Reclaim.ai has been an incredibly valuable tool for me and my work. I'll admit to feeling like this will be the beginning of the end for me. I love Reclaim right now, it serves its purpose very well and stays completely out of the way whilst doing it, but I don't have any love for Dropbox or the vision for the future with Dropbox. Maybe I'm completely wrong though and you'll pull off something great. Best of luck and congrats again.
- patleeman 2y agoYeah, its kind of a bummer. Dropbox doesn't really have a cohesive vision for their productivity suite? Dropbox Paper doesn't seem to have progressed and there haven't been any other notable new products released.
- Lightbody 2y agoI appreciate the candor, and the support for Reclaim. Part of why we went with Dropbox was strong alignment for what the future of work can look like. Also because unlike many tech acquisitions, we were able to keep the entire team and product intact while continuing to invest in and pursue the long term vision we've had for Reclaim. I hope you'll give us a chance to change your perspective in the coming years :)
- tonytamps 2y agoAbsolutely. I don't plan to go anywhere until it no longer works for me.
- sizediterable 2y agoOut of Dropbox's long history of acquisitions, very few of the products from said acquisitions have survived. Did this factor into your decision to join Dropbox and if so how did you weigh that risk?
- theolivenbaum 2y agoReminded me of their Command-E acquisition from a few years ago (https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to-dropbox- https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to...)
- Lightbody 2y agoCommand-E lives on: https://www.dash.ai https://www.dash.ai
- Lightbody 2y agoWe definitely considered it and we talked openly with the Dropbox team as well. I feel very good about the future of Reclaim.
- rsimmonds 2y agoCongrats on the acquisiton. This is huge. Do you think Reclaim will go up market with this move? What is your vision for how Reclaim supports more organizations in the future. And... When you think about growth of Reclaim -- What is something you think you got right when going to market?
- fortran77 2y agoWaiting for someone to say they could implement reclaim with a 10 line shell script and rsync.
- bound008 2y agoHappy to say so.... just sprinkle in a little caldav ;)
- OJFord 2y agoDanG's thoughts on the comment/'meme' you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442 It seems he's given up fighting it in recent years, but I doubt his view or the facts have changed, and they're worth reading.
- petters 2y agoDang writes: > about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then) But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.
- Arubis 2y agoSeveral years ago, facing the problem that Reclaim.ai started off solving (cross-calendar sync), I started exploring Google's Calendar API and MS's O365 API for the same. Pretty quickly figured out this wasn't side project-sized and dropped it, so I've been happy to give Reclaim my money in the years past!
- mlloyd 2y agoSeriously! I've tried a few times off and on and it just isn't something to tackle without having a ton of time and effort and stamina and stubbornness. And then still likely failing.
- Arubis 2y agoThis is one of the faster founding-fitting-exiting stories I've seen in some time. Five years is quick!
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI don’t see this as a good thing. HelloSign was acquired by DropBox and is basically a stagnant has-been, and their security incident doesn’t give me confidence that acquisitions are in good hands there either given the lack of a transparent root cause analysis.