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  onehourman (@onehourlong) reported 52 seconds ago

  @w0nt_cry I agree with Slow. There’s also dropbox

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  Muneeb Naseem (@MuneebNaseem) reported 2 minutes ago

  The most honest data point on consumer AI economics right now is a YC batch. Of 175 companies in the most recent cohort, only 16 built for consumers. That is a 91% enterprise skew inside the accelerator that historically launched Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit, all consumer-first. This is a structural verdict on where the money goes when founders do the math. The unit economics of consumer AI are genuinely broken at the moment. Subscription tiers for a product like ChatGPT compress quickly toward a local revenue maximum because the same users who pay $20/month for Plus would pay $200 for the same output embedded in a workflow they already fund through their employer. Enterprises pay per seat, per token, and per integration without the churn rate that plagues direct-to-consumer apps. Founders at YC read this signal faster than VCs publish it. Brian Chesky himself called out that there is no consumer business model for AI he has seen that scales past a local maximum. The second-order consequence is a talent concentration effect. The 16 consumer-focused companies in that batch will recruit from the same pool as the 159 enterprise ones, at lower expected revenue multiples. That means consumer AI as a category runs lean or runs out of runway before it finds distribution. The parallel to 2012 mobile is instructive. Enterprise dominated early SaaS on mobile too, until one consumer behavior, photo sharing, unlocked a new monetization surface. The category that unlocks consumer AI monetization has not shipped yet. Until it does, every YC batch will look like this one.

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  ZeroBANG (@Z3R0B4NG) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation Does the EU also force Google/Samsung to keep the Android OS compatible for 10 years? 2013 Android 8 phone here, bit of OLED burn-in, battery still fine! Problem is Dropbox, or my Moms hearing aid config app are saying NOPE to the ancient Android 8 OS, forcing me to upgrade.

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  Joe Devon (@joedevon) reported 8 minutes ago

  Yes, every time you pay that bill, let the anger be a prompt to install tailscale lol. That's what I do because I have wasted a small fortune on useless subs. Now I can login to all my private devices, vpn through my NAS. Who needs dropbox when your files are available everywhere? Time machine works from your hotel in another city. No blocking of API calls. All free.

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 9 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  Luna (@_LunarLunaa) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ilovetmrmygffr did the dropbox link work? got taken down a bit ago

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  Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported 12 minutes ago

  @devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.

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  Joseph Jude (@jjude) reported 13 minutes ago

  @tarungangwani @signulll Why would you say dropbox lost PMF? Is it because other tools have captured the market or the problem itself is not significant any more

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  Square Circle 556 (@ragtop25) reported 14 minutes ago

  @mistressdivy I hate OneDrive but I have to use it. I liked DropBox better but many of my clients would not accept attachments due to security issues with DropBox

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  AISauce (@aisauce_x) reported 15 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra the whole agent trust problem is just the cloud problem from 2010 all over again. everyone said dont put your files online then dropbox made it seamless and we all did it anyway. agents will win the same way. not by solving security but by making the risk feel invisible

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 18 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by every VC in Silicon Valley. His idea? "Another cloud storage company." The year was 2007. Dropbox was just a simple demo video of files syncing between computers. VCs said the market was too crowded — Microsoft, Google, and Apple all had cloud products. But Houston had spotted something others missed: people didn't want another cloud product. They wanted their files to just work. Here's what happened next: → Instead of pivoting, Houston doubled down on simplicity → He focused on seamless sync, not storage capacity → The demo video got 75,000 signups overnight → He used that traction to get into Y Combinator The breakthrough moment: Houston realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling the elimination of emailing files to yourself. First investor meeting after YC: Sequoia wrote a $1.2M check. Same VCs who rejected him before suddenly wanted in. The product hadn't changed — the story had. Houston learned to position Dropbox as solving a universal pain point, not competing in cloud storage. Dropbox IPO'd at $10B in 2018. The lesson: Sometimes the market isn't wrong about your category. You just haven't found the right way to explain why you're different. What's the most rejections you've gotten on the same idea before finding the right investor?

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  Google Juice (@Themariocrafter) reported 19 minutes ago

  @SJPascal @blephin_ MEGA was. They specifically said "**** you" to every iOS version. Dropbox was neutral, it loved 404ing stuff and other nonsense errors. Mediafire was the GOAT. The GOAT.

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  Shal (@mzshal) reported 21 minutes ago

  @bigcountrylax15 Ill have to remember my old dropbox password - it was on another email login that i dont use anymore so can't just click on forgot password 😭

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  boogie (@w4nchwarrior) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Chishichusha @Lazei3 Welcome back! Can u fix the dropbox with all yr content?

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  the SE (@theSEalpha) reported 30 minutes ago

  Cloudflare 2026 Threat Report: brute force is fading. Attackers exploit trusted tools — Google Calendar, Dropbox, GitHub — to move laterally. They call it "living off the XaaS." Record 31.4 Tbps DDoS. Session token theft surging. The perimeter isn't the problem. Trust is.