Dropbox did too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The "Show HN" convention hadn't been invented at that point, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The "Show HN" convention hadn't been invented at that point, though.
> 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.
To be fair, I was making an argument that it was trivial to replicate, and it was... Ubuntu, Google, Microsoft, and several others did just that. Kudos to Dropbox for their unanticipated (by me, anyway) staying power.
It's always interesting when you can look back at yourself and see how much you've grown or learned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329397
(We didn't get any comments or many points, but it's nice to see that afterward we've had a number of Leanpub books do better...)
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.os.minix/dlN...