Dropbox: Files Without Borders
Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork.
Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.
Absolutely true. Dropbox is one hell of a cloud backup solution. With Dropbox iPhone app, I have all my important files with me in my pocket.
Does anybody have numbers on their current free/paid users?
Google docs does handle most files for uploading and downloading. I don't use it much, but it's cheaper than dropbox, but less capable as well.
Dropbox is just incredibly well done. I tried using services like xdrive, strongspace, idisk and a few others over the years and they all felt so cumbersome that they never stuck. Dropbox by comparison seems to sync incredibly fast, has a sensible way for dealing with conflicts, and just seems to hit a sweet spot of simplicity and functionality.
dropbox is great but their upload speeds kills the service. I get around 40-60kb/s while on other sites i get 400-500kb/s
Good to see Dropbox getting the coverage - it really is a killer application for end-users.
They need to create some more paid plans. More variety would be wonderful!
I still remember that HN post announcing his project, before getting accepted to YC.
Dropbox is definitely great, and it really do deserve its extremly widespread usage.
It has actually made it so simple to do a backup that it gets done. Most impressive.
You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.