First YC company to go public ! Congrats
It's always fun to look at the comments at the time the MVP was posted here on HN:
It's always fun to look at the comments at the time the MVP was posted here on HN:
Like: "The only problem is that you have to install something."? Regular users don't care and they didn't care then.
Linux users can build this quite trivially? Yeah, but your average person can't, so who cares?
"Not income generating"? It's storage. People pay for storage all the time.
Not sure if it was just in my part of the world, but when Dropbox started, people only paid for local storage. And that was mostly technical people outside of small USB drives.
> 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
"quite trivially"
aka approximately no one, and certainly not anyone with a smartphone (technically Linux but you can't set up all these services easily).