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Wow, difficult crowd. It reminds me of the initial Dropbox launch. Their pitch was a USB drive for the Internet, which was torn to pieces by this crowd. Then,

by josho 2y ago

Wow, difficult crowd. It reminds me of the initial Dropbox launch. Their pitch was a USB drive for the Internet, which was torn to pieces by this crowd. Then, Dropbox built a video showing how it worked, and their product went viral. Folks here, myself included, struggle to understand why we need a desktop in our browser. Your animated gifs don't show enough for someone outside of your product to 'get it'. Record a video and walk us through your killer use case, I think it's there, but I don't quite see it yet.

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smt88 2y ago
Dropbox was torn to pieces because it was a feature (folder sync) raising money as a company. It was obvious why it was a useful feature, but it wasn't obvious how they'd build a moat. This product is unlike Dropbox in that it isn't solving a problem anyone has. I'd go further and say it immediately repelled me because it looks like it would make using my computer even worse.
latexr 2y ago
> which was torn to pieces by this crowd Was it? I’m looking at the thread right now and the top level comments say things like: “This is genius”; “I must say Dropbox looks great!”; “This has great potential!”; “Cool stuff indeed”; “your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now”; “This is an interesting application”; “It looks great man”; “Nice Application”; “I like the app”; and on and on… It’s mostly praise and some well reasoned and polite criticisms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 And even if you’re referring to the infamous BrandonM comment, not only is that one comment but the reply (which is almost always glossed over) shows it was a valuable and positive interaction. dang had a nice writeup on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281
turtlebits 2y ago
Dropbox solves a problem. I'm not sure what this is other than a tech demo. If it was a toy project, sure it's cool. Trying to sell it as a product? That's a reach...

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smt88 2y ago

Dropbox was torn to pieces because it was a feature (folder sync) raising money as a company. It was obvious why it was a useful feature, but it wasn't obvious how they'd build a moat. This product is unlike Dropbox in that it isn't solving a problem anyone has. I'd go further and say it immediately repelled me because it looks like it would make using my computer even worse.

latexr 2y ago

> which was torn to pieces by this crowd Was it? I’m looking at the thread right now and the top level comments say things like: “This is genius”; “I must say Dropbox looks great!”; “This has great potential!”; “Cool stuff indeed”; “your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now”; “This is an interesting application”; “It looks great man”; “Nice Application”; “I like the app”; and on and on… It’s mostly praise and some well reasoned and polite criticisms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 And even if you’re referring to the infamous BrandonM comment, not only is that one comment but the reply (which is almost always glossed over) shows it was a valuable and positive interaction. dang had a nice writeup on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281

turtlebits 2y ago

Dropbox solves a problem. I'm not sure what this is other than a tech demo. If it was a toy project, sure it's cool. Trying to sell it as a product? That's a reach...