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Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas. Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions. Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they'
by margalabargala 6d ago
Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.
Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.
Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
- bitexploder 6d agoThere is a canonical hacker news post about Dropbox being useless and a pointless idea at one point :)
- SgtBastard 5d agoI always have a Mandela-effect moment about the Dropbox and iPod dismissive comments with Hackernews and Slashdot respectively. God I’ old
- margalabargala 5d agoThe post is specifically about how it can "trivially be implemented using rsync" which is why I chose that verbiage :-)
- applfanboysbgon 5d agoThis in fact literally reinforces my point. Ideas are worth ~nothing. Execution is everything. LLMs cannot execute for shit.