There's always that one guy asking why a product exists when it's "trivial" to spin up and manage yourself.

That comment is my personal favorite HN naysayer comment of all time:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

Yes, absolutely trivial. Even a child could do it. /s

Just smelt some silicon, yadda, yadda, yadda. Trivial.

BrandonM retells his experience reading a certain now-famous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051

Dropbox's Show HN is a reminder of how dismissing designers isn't such a wise idea for engineers ;)

Those comments are a lot of fun to read through. It seems like, at least on HN, people were generally positive about Dropbox. A lot of comments about solving a problem (more so for windows users) and having a good demo.

Do companies normally take 10+ years to go public? I think it was much quicker during the dotcom era, but I don't know how that compares to previous decades...

Oh and congrats to the team :)

It's too bad they let that original URL die.

Here's the Wayback archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070220080513/http://getdropbox...