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$350? I'd like to at least get a peek at what's going to go on that day before sinking that kind of money into this.
by timdorr 13y ago
$350? I'd like to at least get a peek at what's going to go on that day before sinking that kind of money into this.
- fatbat 13y agoThat is over 3 yrs of Dropbox Pro for one user, so I am curious what they will offer on that single day.
- jonknee 13y agoYour time should be a lot more valuable than that, so even if it was free you should evaluate what Dropbox is worth to you. If your work depends on Dropbox in some manner, it will most likely prove worthwhile.
- ultimoo 13y agoTrue. However, there are also the more difficult-to-measure networking benefits of attending a conference like this. Dropbox are a great technology-centered python shop. One may bump into a future co-founder, or a college senior may impress someone enough to be offered an internship, or an Ops guy could find inspiration in how they scale, etc. So it is possible that even if your direct day-to-day work doesn't depend on Dropbox, you could find it beneficial.
- ruswick 13y ago"Your time should be a lot more valuable than that, so even if it was free you should evaluate what Dropbox is worth to you." I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you stating that the price of the conference is irrelevant and that one should only consider the time investment. If so, I disagree. Although $350 might be negligible to some, it is not to most people. The price of the ticket is probably going to be cost-prohibitive to most, and certainly elevates the decision of purchasing one out of the realm of triviality. To most people $350 is a major expense that requires thought, and to many, it's an expense that might prove prohibitive. To the overwhelming majority of people, money and not time is limiting factor in their lives.
- StavrosK 13y agoHe's saying that, if you're reading HN, your day rate is probably much higher than $350. Hence, the conference might not be worth the price even if it were free.
- jbooth 13y agoYeah, but I still do my own yardwork no matter what my day rate is. Some things about money you do based on principle, like not shelling out $350 without knowing what you're buying -- Warren Buffett wouldn't do that, why should I?
- na85 13y agoI think you're both saying that $350 is too expensive.
- minikomi 13y agoThat's assuming a lot.
- ekianjo 13y agoSo it's ok to shell out 350 dollars just because your day rate is higher? Sorry, but the logic of that statement fails me. Why spend 350 dollars on this vs something else would be rather interesting point to make.
- lucian1900 13y agoReally? Mine's a fraction of that.
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- jonknee 13y agoI'm saying that taking a work day off is probably more of a gamble than the $350. > To the overwhelming majority of people, money and not time is limiting factor in their lives. Sure, but this site's primary audience is not made up of the overwhelming majority of people. An average HN member has more money than time and likely wouldn't be using their personal money to attend anyway.
- no_more_death 13y agoCome on! This is one of the most remarkably run companies around today. They never do anything halfway. If you balk at $350, you either aren't their target market or you don't think very highly of Dropbox. $350 is about an hour and a half of work, at $215 per hour. That's chump change. Most significant conferences are about $300, such as ConvergeSE which happened just a couple weeks ago. Dropbox knows that people will buy tickets because they believe in Dropbox, and then Dropbox will make it awesome. Then everyone will know that when you've got a company that does things right, you can trust them with a tiny percentage of a typical webshop's daily paycheck, which they already knew anyway. And if $350 seems like a lot per person, when you add up all the costs involved it's really not that much. Money adds up quickly when a conference is done right. Most conferences pay a full-time employee for months just to make sure that the wifi won't melt under the load of hundreds of conference goers. There are a huge number of things to think about and make sure that everything goes right. I'm shocked at this thread. Utterly shocked. Someone else actually complained that the three letters DBX are already taken. Come on! Every possible three or four letter acronym is taken. This thread is crazy. There is nothing of value here, at all, period. Not sure what happened to HN here.