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24 pointsjstreebin8 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) was

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I find the comments extremely interesting given DropBox's fate to date.

My favourite:

    1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite
    trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs,
    and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac,
    this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

I snorted audibly when I imagined explaining this approach to my non-techie colleagues.

Another gem:

    This looks like a good competitor for Google"s "GDrive"

And, in my case, it did actually replaced my USB drive 99% of its uses. The only time in the last 2 years that I used it was to go to print some PPT on a printing shop, as I don't have a printer at home. And I had to search the whole house to find my USB driver (which was lost on an old backpack).

Oh wow. I love little historic things like this. Hopefully, it never goes away.

PHPfog/AppFog credits an HN post for their start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414560

“I was hacking around with some code seeing if I could create something useful for my PHP programmer friends,” said Lucas Carlson, founder of PHP Fog. “I got a prototype working to prove that it’s possible. Then I put a landing page up that described the promise of PHP Fog. A single link on Hacker News went up the next day and 800 people signed up for what I built. That was the day I knew I had to go all in.”

http://siliconflorist.com/2011/01/11/portland-funding-cloudy...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864615

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