[josho]

Wow, difficult crowd.

It reminds me of the initial Dropbox launch. Their pitch was a USB drive for the Internet, which was torn to pieces by this crowd. Then, Dropbox built a video showing how it worked, and their product went viral.

Folks here, myself included, struggle to understand why we need a desktop in our browser. Your animated gifs don't show enough for someone outside of your product to 'get it'. Record a video and walk us through your killer use case, I think it's there, but I don't quite see it yet.

[smt88]

Dropbox was torn to pieces because it was a feature (folder sync) raising money as a company.

It was obvious why it was a useful feature, but it wasn't obvious how they'd build a moat.

This product is unlike Dropbox in that it isn't solving a problem anyone has. I'd go further and say it immediately repelled me because it looks like it would make using my computer even worse.

[latexr]

> which was torn to pieces by this crowd

Was it? I’m looking at the thread right now and the top level comments say things like: “This is genius”; “I must say Dropbox looks great!”; “This has great potential!”; “Cool stuff indeed”; “your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now”; “This is an interesting application”; “It looks great man”; “Nice Application”; “I like the app”; and on and on… It’s mostly praise and some well reasoned and polite criticisms.

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

And even if you’re referring to the infamous BrandonM comment, not only is that one comment but the reply (which is almost always glossed over) shows it was a valuable and positive interaction. dang had a nice writeup on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281

[turtlebits]

Dropbox solves a problem. I'm not sure what this is other than a tech demo. If it was a toy project, sure it's cool. Trying to sell it as a product? That's a reach...