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Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by maxdata on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:38PM (#23798997)
My company was largely run on dropbox as a crucial piece of infrastructure for many years before my arrival. As of a couple months ago, it has been cut out of our production pipeline entirely, but for many years, if you saw a digital out-of-home ad in certain places, it only got there because someone had added a media file and schedule to a dropbox folder. Looking back on it, it's pretty wild how much of their business relied on dropbox working reliably. Thankfully, that's all gone now.
Re:Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011) by jumhyn on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:43PM (#23799021)
I worked in a research lab several years ago that used Dropbox as their version control system for all the data analysis scripts they wrote. It took a while but by the time I left I had convinced everyone to switch over to git.