A paid, Mac only app which could fairly easily be implemented as a plugin to any popular text editor... I'm not sure I understand the appeal - what am I missing here, please? :)
Yes, you could. Or you could use something that's polished and works, with a clean UI and years of real world testing.
It doesn't work on most computers, of course.
Dropbox has been touted as Y Combinator's most successful investment to date.
But to answer your question, yes, it turned a profit:
> The maker of cloud-based file-sharing software reported profit, excluding some costs, of 10 cents a share, above the 6 cent average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg.
So, not really then?
From the same article:
>The company also posted a narrower net loss of $7.7 million
Dropbox is still not profitable.
> Dropbox has demonstrated impressive growth since 2015, roughly doubling the number of paying users and revenue. Dropbox became cash-flow positive in 2016, but recorded a loss of $111 million that year after pouring money back into its product development efforts.
https://qz.com/1214822/dropbox-is-filing-for-a-500-million-i...
Of course “emasc can do anything” is ages old argument, but should it?
I don't care if it's literally Emacs, but I want all my data in one place. Half my programming career was spent taking one dumb format and converting it into another dumb format because the systems were incompatible, and for no good reason.
People complain about needing "dongles" (i.e., adapters) with Apple's new laptops, but there's a simple and obvious fix (buy one), and we can see the endgame (everything USB-C) where even that won't be required.
Programmers spend all day building custom software "dongles", with no end in sight. Why aren't they angry about that?
As a programmer, the REPL and/or notebook interfaces for my favorite languages provide what Soulver offers already, so it isn't as valuable to me. To a non-programmer, Soulver seems like a very pleasant, user-friendly tool.