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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 2mo 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 2mo agoThere is a canonical hacker news post about Dropbox being useless and a pointless idea at one point :)
- SgtBastard 2mo agoI always have a Mandela-effect moment about the Dropbox and iPod dismissive comments with Hackernews and Slashdot respectively. God I’ old
- margalabargala 2mo agoThe post is specifically about how it can "trivially be implemented using rsync" which is why I chose that verbiage :-)
- applfanboysbgon 2mo agoThis in fact literally reinforces my point. Ideas are worth ~nothing. Execution is everything. LLMs cannot execute for shit.