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I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by using Dropbox.

2. It doesn't actually replace Dropbox.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

(Silly satire.)

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This can sync any folder and (presumably) can have multiple instances running; Dropbox is limited to a single instance per user syncing ~/Dropbox. This is P2P and works without an internet connection.

It seems to be built for a different use case; Nextcloud (server/client) and Syncthing (P2P) are already excellent Dropbox alternatives.

All valid points. However, etaioinshrdlu is making a reference to the time Dropbox was first posted to Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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