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It depends on your use case. Personally, I use Google Docs and Office.

But beyond that, it handles syncing and sharing outside of the GDocs folder. The feature set is actually quite broad.

Thanks Mahmud for not just posting the link but helping us review our backend gratis! Cool guy!

Noah has a way with words :)

We love Dropbox and I actually met Drew in Startup School last year. Funny story but at that time, we were just beginning to reverse engineer Finder on SL and Drew basically said (paraphrasing) "It's a bitch." We found out that he was right.

Anyways, we think that it's a pretty big market.

Edit: Thanks Noah for changing the title.

The Google Docs sync is one of our features. There's a list on our homepage with screenshots – http://insynchq.com

The Google Docs folder is the only part where storage is handled by Google. Folders outside of that can be shared and/or synced and their storage is handled by Insync.

Hello all, I'm one of the founders of Insync. I shared the demo with Noah not knowing he would post it here. I'm glad he did :)

I will be glad to answer any questions.

If gdocs to gdocs, then google takes care of it. If desktop to gdocs, we employ a simple conflict resolution where the conflicted copy gets saved locally.

Yeah, I do the same but it looks like the majority uses their country specific Google pages.

I'm assuming you are only talking about Google's US homepage? (i.e. not including youtube and other non google.com Google properties)?

I don't see why they can't go to all today. They probably ship products to more countries.

Would be great if Amazon considered more 3rd world countries as those countries don't have or barely have any kind of startup support/ecosystem. It gives the few individuals doing the startup thing at least some chance at scoring some "funding."

If you love the beach, super cheap to live, eat (fresh food) and really good devs but hard to find, consider Manila.

I am from Silicon Valley but have been here for almost 7 years. Downsides: traffic, small startup scene and hard to raise money. But there's a new local fund focused on local tech going after the world. They just funded my startup. I can make intros.

Subscribe to http://thestartupdigest.com Philippines to get a feel for the local startup events.

I'm in Manila and running my startup here. Email me.

Data syncing is a huge problem and its need will only expand. Dropbox is at the forefront of this (i.e. when I think of search -> google, shopping -> amazon, online storage -> dropbox).

The consumer space is growing (more devices and users) and the enterprise space is wide open. I can see Dropbox going after Sharepoint et al.

You're right, it might not be enough to be the next google but they might come close.

I would say Dropbox is on its way.

Absolutely!

Manila, Philippines

3 engineers: client, web and mobile

http://insync.theresumator.com

Instead of creating mobile friendly resto sites, why not create a weebly for restaurants, perhaps removing flash as an option making it at least readable on mobile. Perhaps use html5.

I suspect that the majority of restos don't even have a site and making it super easy for them to customize, upload menus, sell unique resto themes, etc., provides great value. Perhaps even tie into reviews around the web and pics via apis.

Getting 500 error

If you take a detour and happen to stop by the Philippines, please give me a shout. I also have an extra room if you need it (beers included :)

Any plans going to SE Asia?

I'm not sure why you are getting down voted. Your explanation is logical and the lack of iPhone carriers is a big issue for marketshare. Up voted.

It has to be part of your culture (ie when hiring). As for the cost, it pays back in understanding your customer better and getting engineers working on the right things.

I have been part of too many engineering teams working on the wrong things because of a lack of customer interface.

Was expecting it on the homepage and not buried under about :)

I'd go one further and say that everyone (especially engineers) should spend time (either daily/weekly) on customer support (forums, emails, etc.). There's nothing like a customer gripe that gets engineers to prioritize stuff.

Having said that, I couldn't find Jackson Fish's 800 number.

You may want to post here: http://helpastartupout.com/

Here's a dev looking for a project: http://helpastartupout.com/2010/05/16/tech-team-looking-for-...

He says, "My happiest times are on small, fast-moving teams. It's very hard to get that feeling at larger companies. Spinning up something new is definitely on my list of possibilities."

Perhaps RescueTime has gotten too large for him.

Would be great if you can share your sales figures 24 hours post release.

Read the article again, there's an update. It was a bug.

For a moment there, I thought your company was funded by Google Ventures: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/03/what-entrepreneurs-should-know-...