Re:Dropbox: Files Without Borders
by gr366 on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @07:27PM
(#1418666)
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.
Re:Dropbox: Files Without Borders
by Groxx on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @07:40PM
(#1418704)
Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving.
This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff.
What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be essentially as easy.
edit: hell, just use a Google Docs form, that handles distribution and filling it out and combining the results.
Re:Dropbox: Files Without Borders
by arethuza on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:12AM
(#1419581)
I agree - FTP requires servers to be set up etc. In most corporate environments that can take a long time (for good reasons, you don't go changing perimeter firewalls without some kind of change control) - much easier for everyone to install Dropbox and start sharing stuff in minutes.
I've used Google docs folders for team projects that include file types other than those used for documents, it simply 'stores' it in the folder along with revision history.
Re:Dropbox: Files Without Borders
by statictype on Thursday June 10, 2010 @07:50AM
(#1419741)
For a company that isn't very tech savvy (which may be the case for a company distributing so much papers around) dropbox provides the benefit of being dead-simple.
Re:Dropbox: Files Without Borders
by dasil003 on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:25AM
(#1419301)
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.
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.
This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff.
What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be essentially as easy.
edit: hell, just use a Google Docs form, that handles distribution and filling it out and combining the results.
I don't expect them to set it up themselves. Just to hunt someone down and pay them a couple thousand to solve their ridiculously expensive problem.
I've used Google docs folders for team projects that include file types other than those used for documents, it simply 'stores' it in the folder along with revision history.
Is any weekend hacker thinking what I'm thinking?
Does anybody have numbers on their current free/paid users?
He won't disclose details, but probably 2% of Dropbox's members are paying customers, putting revenues at $14 million this year.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It has actually made it so simple to do a backup that it gets done. Most impressive.
http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.html
A little searching goes a long way :)
This is quite slick.
http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall
http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/PythonScriptToMakeStub...