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There were tons of online storage systems before dropbox, they just had clunkly interfaces.

• brc 11y ago
  The killer part of Dropbox was multi-platform, and integrating it into the OS properly, so that you knew where your stuff was. Also the downloaded app just used a simple set of credentials to get working. I had tried many solutions before this, and they were all, without exception, a pain to use and usually ridden with ads and weird interfaces. You usually felt dirty going to download a file from the website.
  • _lce0 11y ago
    and that is still the current state. I wanted to replace it with free software, but it's still a PITA --syncthing seems the best so far, although it requires more experience to be a DB killer