It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this:
Thanks for the historical color.
> When BrandonM wrote "I have a few qualms with this app", he didn't mean the software. He meant their YC application.
Of course. Criticism #3 (arguably the funniest one) was about monetization: "It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating."
-my sides-
> The criticisms he was raising turned out not to be problems in hindsight, but were on point in 2007
They weren't really on point then, were they?
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This comment isn't an example of "ha ha, low IQ" it's an example of "ha ha, humans can be hilariously bad at recognizing opportunities."
Dunno why dang felt hte need to write that comment.
No one felt the need to write the same kind of comment from Commander Taco regarding the iPod.
Who writes the checks that keep the HN lights on?
This is the part where he loses any sympathy.
If it’s so trivial why was nobody doing it? It’s classic tech bro know-it-all-ism.
Plus yeah wow, without the 3% of people who run desktop Linux whatever will a business do?
It was commonly done, and still is.
The existence of restaurants doesn't imply that people don't cook their own food. That people have long come up with their own solutions for the problem that Dropbox addresses isn't incompatible with the notion that Dropbox can be a successful product. Obviously.
The world is packed full of products and services that do things that people can easily do themselves, because plenty of people are happy to not have to do that thing regardless. That's Dropbox's target market.