Had to scroll way too far to find a comment like this. Unfortunately HN famously doesn’t understand what the average consumer wants. The Dropbox comment comes to mind.
I hadn't read comments about Dropbox and products/features until maybe a week or two ago and somehow don't know the reference despite having spent most of the last 20 years in tech.
I presume the story is along the lines of "someone declined to invest in Dropbox and lost out" but what do I need to google to get the actual context? I don't need a full rehash here.
Edit: or is it "Dropbox is adding features nobody wants" and then turning out to be wrong?
Edit again: presumably it's not about "Nobody Cares" by Dropbox, the band.
The basic summary is that a HN commenter suggested Dropbox was redundant because you could do some convoluted setup that 0.1% of the world would understand and 0.001% would actually want to use (and yes, that’s still a few hundred thousand people) and overall that aged poorly.
rkomorn|3 months ago
I presume the story is along the lines of "someone declined to invest in Dropbox and lost out" but what do I need to google to get the actual context? I don't need a full rehash here.
Edit: or is it "Dropbox is adding features nobody wants" and then turning out to be wrong?
Edit again: presumably it's not about "Nobody Cares" by Dropbox, the band.
markbao|3 months ago
Here is the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
The basic summary is that a HN commenter suggested Dropbox was redundant because you could do some convoluted setup that 0.1% of the world would understand and 0.001% would actually want to use (and yes, that’s still a few hundred thousand people) and overall that aged poorly.