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Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount Dropbox as a network drive. Smart lo

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount Dropbox as a network drive. Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, onedrive, box and more. Makes a 1TB account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the primary client to only sync a portion of your Dropbox. Then use ExpanDrive to offload the rest and access it as needed.

yid 12y ago
> Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful piece of software, and for continually developing it.
marban 12y ago
Any arguments over https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airfile-cloud-manager-for/id747595327?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airfile-cloud-manager-for/id... + Any plans for an iOS version?
- hemancuso 12y ago
  Yeah ExpanDrive is a full network filesystem. Air file is like a drag and drop ftp client. iOS version is almost done. Tried to get it out for iOS 8 launch, but didn't quite get there.
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lelandbatey 12y ago
On the product page, please list your price more clearly. It was non-trivial to figure out what your product actually cost. A walkthrough of my thoughts: 1. He said product, so it's probly not free. I wonder how much it costs? 2. Scrolls through the whole page I don't see a breakdown of price. Hmmmm 3. ctrl-f "$" Ahh, I see it says upgrade pricing is $24.99. Wait, does it cost that much, or is that a special "upgrade only" price? 4. looks around on the page more Ahhh, there's a store link, I hope it lists the price there! 5. Ok, so the price is $50 for a single-user license. Why was that so hard to find? I don't mean to be rude with these remarks; your product seems perfectly relevant and it's awesome if it works as you say. But as a customer, I found that a bit confusing and I thought you as the business owner may want some feedback about one particular users experience.
- hemancuso 12y ago
  Fair. I want people to download and not think immediately about price. It's not cheap. I see your point and you might be right. But it's not an entirely uncommon/bad pattern. I had a/b tested it a while back.
  - CPAhem 12y ago
    Looks like a nice product, but $50 for a single user is quite steep, IMHO.
    - hemancuso 12y ago
      What would you pay?
  - computer 12y ago
    I'd like to note that an a/b-test saying it's more profitable doesn't mean you should automatically follow it. A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product.
    - baddox 12y ago
      > A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product. If that doesn't hurt your profit, shouldn't you still do it?
      - Someone 12y ago
        But how do you measure that it doesn't hurt your profit? Conversion rate may go up, but if those not buying because they felt lured with a lower price, through negative mouth-to-mouth advertising, make fewer new potential customers visit your site in a few months time, profit could eventually go down.
        12y ago
bowlofpetunias 12y ago
ExpanDrive is nice (and a quite appropriate plug), but it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot. The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slow even in countries with cheap high bandwidth downstream. It's still just FTP with a nicely integrated interface. The ideal would be something that keeps the files locally until they have been synced in the background, and then removes the local copies whilst still allowing you to access them in the same way as if they were local copies. I.e., placing them in your cloud drive is instant, even though it actually takes a while for them to be transferred. No, that's not an easy problem to solve, but anyone who does solve it will get my money. (Really awesome would be if it intelligently kept local copies available based on usage and available space. The bottom line is: not having to consciously worry about where to put the files.)
- hemancuso 12y ago
  That's exactly what the latest version does. Async writes. Large local cache. Stream out changes in the background.
Osmium 12y ago
Thank you for plugging this! Exactly what I was looking for. Agree with the other poster that your pricing should be more prominent; I thought it was $25 at first glance which (naturally) makes one disappointed to see it's actually $50, though it seems well worth it. Is Yosemite currently supported? Would it make sense to support iCloud Drive too?
- hemancuso 12y ago
  Yup. Still beta but I'm using it!

yid 12y ago

> Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful piece of software, and for continually developing it.

marban 12y ago

Any arguments over https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airfile-cloud-manager-for/id747595327?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airfile-cloud-manager-for/id... + Any plans for an iOS version?

hemancuso 12y ago
Yeah ExpanDrive is a full network filesystem. Air file is like a drag and drop ftp client. iOS version is almost done. Tried to get it out for iOS 8 launch, but didn't quite get there.
- deleted 12y ago
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lelandbatey 12y ago

On the product page, please list your price more clearly. It was non-trivial to figure out what your product actually cost. A walkthrough of my thoughts: 1. He said product, so it's probly not free. I wonder how much it costs? 2. Scrolls through the whole page I don't see a breakdown of price. Hmmmm 3. ctrl-f "$" Ahh, I see it says upgrade pricing is $24.99. Wait, does it cost that much, or is that a special "upgrade only" price? 4. looks around on the page more Ahhh, there's a store link, I hope it lists the price there! 5. Ok, so the price is $50 for a single-user license. Why was that so hard to find? I don't mean to be rude with these remarks; your product seems perfectly relevant and it's awesome if it works as you say. But as a customer, I found that a bit confusing and I thought you as the business owner may want some feedback about one particular users experience.

hemancuso 12y ago
Fair. I want people to download and not think immediately about price. It's not cheap. I see your point and you might be right. But it's not an entirely uncommon/bad pattern. I had a/b tested it a while back.
- CPAhem 12y ago
  Looks like a nice product, but $50 for a single user is quite steep, IMHO.
  - hemancuso 12y ago
    What would you pay?
- computer 12y ago
  I'd like to note that an a/b-test saying it's more profitable doesn't mean you should automatically follow it. A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product.
  - baddox 12y ago
    > A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product. If that doesn't hurt your profit, shouldn't you still do it?
    - Someone 12y ago
      But how do you measure that it doesn't hurt your profit? Conversion rate may go up, but if those not buying because they felt lured with a lower price, through negative mouth-to-mouth advertising, make fewer new potential customers visit your site in a few months time, profit could eventually go down.
      - 12y ago

bowlofpetunias 12y ago

ExpanDrive is nice (and a quite appropriate plug), but it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot. The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slow even in countries with cheap high bandwidth downstream. It's still just FTP with a nicely integrated interface. The ideal would be something that keeps the files locally until they have been synced in the background, and then removes the local copies whilst still allowing you to access them in the same way as if they were local copies. I.e., placing them in your cloud drive is instant, even though it actually takes a while for them to be transferred. No, that's not an easy problem to solve, but anyone who does solve it will get my money. (Really awesome would be if it intelligently kept local copies available based on usage and available space. The bottom line is: not having to consciously worry about where to put the files.)

hemancuso 12y ago
That's exactly what the latest version does. Async writes. Large local cache. Stream out changes in the background.

Osmium 12y ago

Thank you for plugging this! Exactly what I was looking for. Agree with the other poster that your pricing should be more prominent; I thought it was $25 at first glance which (naturally) makes one disappointed to see it's actually $50, though it seems well worth it. Is Yosemite currently supported? Would it make sense to support iCloud Drive too?

hemancuso 12y ago
Yup. Still beta but I'm using it!