Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

Re:Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M by PurpleRamen on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:58AM (#19019003)

I think improving on the syncing-workflow and enhancing it to offer more then just syncing would be something useful. Something like automated actions, or filters.

I store sourcecode in my dropbox, and I really would prefer a way to not sync certain junk-files from compiling-process. Or let it automatically commit to a git-repo if there are changes in certain folders. Something like IFTTT for files seems a sane solution that dropbox seem to miss for a long time now.

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Re:Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M by zawerf on Monday January 28, 2019 @05:09PM (#19021548)

I do something like this with their CLI to ignore node_modules folders for js dev on mac/linux:

    exclude_folders=$(find . -type d -name "node_modules")
    dropbox exclude add $exclude_folders
    dropbox exclude list # Sanity check

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Re:Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M by Nullabillity on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:33PM (#19020328)

Incron[1] is pretty great for "do X when file Y changes"-style rules.

[1]: http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en

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