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Had to scroll way too far to find a comment like this. Unfortunately HN famously doesn’t understand what the average consumer wants. The Dropbox comment comes t
by cyral 11mo ago
Had to scroll way too far to find a comment like this. Unfortunately HN famously doesn’t understand what the average consumer wants. The Dropbox comment comes to mind.
- rkomorn 11mo agoI hadn't read comments about Dropbox and products/features until maybe a week or two ago and somehow don't know the reference despite having spent most of the last 20 years in tech. I presume the story is along the lines of "someone declined to invest in Dropbox and lost out" but what do I need to google to get the actual context? I don't need a full rehash here. Edit: or is it "Dropbox is adding features nobody wants" and then turning out to be wrong? Edit again: presumably it's not about "Nobody Cares" by Dropbox, the band.
- markbao 11mo agoThe Dropbox thing is exactly what I was thinking of when I was writing my original comment. Here is the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 The basic summary is that a HN commenter suggested Dropbox was redundant because you could do some convoluted setup that 0.1% of the world would understand and 0.001% would actually want to use (and yes, that’s still a few hundred thousand people) and overall that aged poorly.
- rkomorn 11mo agoMuch appreciated. :) Edit: shame it wasn't about the band and the song though.