Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?

Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by dehrmann on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:07PM (#26437983)

Dropbox is in a weird place right now because its free tier is too small, the pair tier is too big and expensive, a $5 tier doesn't work financially, and Google, Microsoft, and Apple offer 80% as good solutions with 2.5x as much space for free. For corporate customers, again, they're probably Exchange or GSuite shops, so they can use one of those storage providers.

Dropbox addresses a real problem, it's just that the triviality of a business copying it means it became table stakes on a lot of platforms.

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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by snowwrestler on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:24PM (#26438217)

Dropbox’s killer app is: simply working. I have access to and use both Google Drive and O365 One Drive at work and it is shocking how often I have problems with them.

To be clear, my expected rate of problems for this functionality is “never.” The only service I have that experience with is Dropbox. With GDrive and One Drive I have seen folders lose sync, files get stuck syncing, and inexplicable conflicts.

In addition, sharing outside my org is way easier and more reliable with Dropbox.

I agree that copying files around seems like it should be trivial. Somehow it’s not, though. I don’t have an explanation, just observations from trying to get real work done on a Mac.

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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by donnythecroc on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:00PM (#26441504)

This. From day one I still never had an issue with Dropbox. Icloud and one drive - constant problems.

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