Hacker News Reader

It has an air of truth. Dropbox is bar none the best sync client. Almost unbelievably so.

But they were in 2010 too. And if you time travelled from 2010 to 2015, you wouldn't really notice anything materially different between Dropbox then and now.

View on HN

I don't get it either, they have so many competitors and no one seems to actually bother to compete with Dropbox in the client space. I want to like Google Drive just because it's cheaper and integrates with Gmail and all the other Google services I use, but there's still no Linux client and it's just not as simple as Dropbox. Dropbox is just solid and available everywhere.

Perhaps it's harder to make something like Dropbox work? I wouldn't know; just wondering. Having Guido Van Rossum on board either means that they're doing hard stuff, or they like hiring overqualified people...

Does it need to be? Dropbox has suited my needs perfectly from the getgo.

I imagine they have been changing on the enterprise side. I'm just a small business account.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com