Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by scarface_74 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:37AM
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Yes just like instead of Dropbox for a Linux user, 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. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
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Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by imachine1980_ on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:52AM
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I don't check the project deeply yet so I don't comment about it.
That's not true Dropbox was in the technical edge when it came, and old time ago, was barely possible, and the recurrent cost of the severs and operation cost is clearly not the same. And pay Foss GUIs are sad state of reality
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by scarface_74 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:01AM
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That comment above was a call out to the (in)famous comment when Dropbox was introduced on HN back in 2007
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
It’s the HN version of “less space than the Nomad. No wireless. Lame”
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by scott01 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:24AM
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I almost didn’t get the reference :)
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by gus_massa on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:53PM
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Note that this is only Part I of the original comment. Parts II and III are more interesting (but everybody forgets them).
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by scarface_74 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:18PM
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Where is part II and III?
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
by huhtenberg on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:09AM
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I recognized this reference.