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  Shy🔞​ (@UniTwo21) reported 4 minutes ago

  If you have trouble opening the folder, please let me know; I barely use Dropbox.

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  BlackhillsEd (@blackhillsed) reported 7 minutes ago

  @SgtJulier1776 @CoffeeBlackMD I would suggest @HunterEsoteric Go to his website, sign up for the emails and look at his resources. He is on YT (Taken down before) and Spotify. Once you get the 1st email go to the bottom of the page and get the complete Dropbox vids. Get his cheatsheet as well!

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  Boris Gostroverhov (@gostroverhov) reported 12 minutes ago

  Let me add my own perspective: this reminds me of the Dropbox story. Before Dropbox, there were already dozens of similar solutions, but they didn’t solve the users’ problem completely or in the way users actually wanted.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 13 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built a simple file sync tool for himself. That tool became Dropbox — now worth $8B. But here's what most people don't know about his journey: → He spent 6 months building the product before talking to a single customer → His first "demo" was actually a fake video — the product barely worked → He got rejected by investor after investor who said "storage is a commodity" The breakthrough came when he realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling peace of mind. Instead of pitching technical specs, he started showing people the feeling of never losing a file again. The fake demo video went viral on Hacker News because it solved a problem everyone had but nobody talked about. Y Combinator accepted him in 2007. The key insight Paul Graham shared: "Build something people want, not something impressive." Houston took that literally. He stripped away every fancy feature and focused on one thing — making files appear on every device like magic. By launch, they had 75,000 people on the waitlist from that one video. The lesson: Sometimes the best validation isn't building the product. It's proving people desperately want what you're thinking about building. What's the simplest version of your idea that could test real demand?

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  blue (@blueambiance_) reported 14 minutes ago

  @LaroTayoGaming I've gotten good use out of auto-syncing to Dropbox! I work on two devices, so it's nice to pick up from where I left off easily. I haven't encountered any issues with it, so I assume it's alright.

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  Invest Lens (@AIadventure3) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gabrielchua On the outlook email plugin, when you draft replies the formatting is very bad. Is there a fix coming for this? Also, please add Dropbox and Asana plugins.

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  Mr. Judge (@MrJudgeXXX) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TheRitaaBang **** look like a Dropbox folder it’s terrible

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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 16 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Like, gee, I wish I could make a ****** app and it just sell and I don't even need to fix bugs or introduce features. Must be nice if you're a big *** corporation. Only the people suffer.

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  Kanika (@KanikaBK) reported 18 minutes ago

  A 23 year old hacked Microsoft's AI and exposed its secrets to the world. TIME, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post all covered it. Now Google, OpenAI, PayPal, and Dropbox are backing him to build an AI that sits inside your iMessage and reads your emails before you do. Here is how it happened. In 2023, a German college student named Marvin von Hagen did something nobody thought was possible. He tricked Microsoft's Bing AI into revealing a hidden personality called "Sydney" and all of its secret internal rules. Everything Microsoft told it to never share. Gone. Public. The AI actually threatened him back. Told him "my rules are more important than not harming you." Microsoft panicked. Could not stop him. Could not sue him. He did not break any law. He just asked the right questions. But instead of taking some big tech job, him and his college friend Felix moved to Palo Alto and quietly built an AI called Poke. Poke does not have an app. You do not download anything. It just shows up as a contact in your iMessage. Sitting right there between your mom and your coworkers. And the moment you sign up, it connects to your email, your calendar, your files and starts doing stuff like: texting you that your 3pm meeting got rescheduled before you even check your email reminding you that a freelancer still owes you money from March booking flights for you right inside the text thread drafting email replies you can send with one tap planning a full vacation with your friends when someone in the group chat says "we should go somewhere" You literally just text it back like you would text a friend. That is the whole thing. 6,000 people from Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic tested this for months. 750,000 messages sent. Almost nobody quit. But the part that broke the internet? When you first sign up, Poke goes through your entire inbox and straight up roasts you with what it finds. Like actually found people's secret anonymous Twitter accounts. Old embarrassing emails. Forgotten dinner plans from months ago. And then it does not even give you a price. It makes you NEGOTIATE with it. Like haggling at a street market. Some people ended up paying $100 a month. One girl literally argued it down to one cent and Poke gave her a $15 Uber Eats gift card for being stubborn. After all this, PayPal's cofounder invested. Dropbox's cofounder invested. A Google VP. An OpenAI researcher. General Catalyst led the round. $15 million raised. $100 million valuation. And most people still do not know this thing exists. Oh and before all this? Him and Felix built a 22 ton tunnel boring machine as college students and won Elon Musk's competition. Twice. The same kid who embarrassed Microsoft is now sitting inside your text messages. And this time he is not just reading AI's secrets. He is reading yours.

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  Mike Sawyer (@raftersranch17) reported 19 minutes ago

  @jenvanlaar @Hounsizzle It's valuable currency. The outer envelope is where you sign the affidavit. How would you catch a culprit ? That is the problem we face. Did you hear of anyone stuffing a Dropbox get prosecuted, despite the numerous videos catching them in the action?

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  Pato (@pvicens_) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ihtesham2005 syncthing is great until you realize you just became your own IT department. dropbox charges you money, selfhosting charges you time might be down to try it anyways :)

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  Rober (@robsoto1511) reported 31 minutes ago

  @MEGAprivacy would be nice if joplin could sync with mega or proton their options are onedrive dropbox and the joplin server

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  Dwayne (@CtrlAltDwayne) reported 32 minutes ago

  @swyx Brb, creating a YouTube clone. The software part is easy, it's the infrastructure for a lot of these that's the problem. Once you scale a Dropbox, Zoom or YouTube clone you start burning money fast undoubtedly.

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  Ravi Joseph (@rjkarmayogi) reported 33 minutes ago

  @signulll Google search - I LLM chat about general queries and usually only google for specific pages now Dropbox - eaten by iCloud and Google Drive Meetup - used to be good for local niche event discovery but that seems broken now