It's one of the more successful ones but for all the hype I haven't signed up and neither has anybody that I know outside of HN. Now I'm probably not the target audience anyway so that's no surprise, but I really can't see something like dropbox being the next google.
They have a business model that requires payment for anything but the most trivial uses (which is great, they'll be profitable, but it is a definite brake on growth). Hard to do that soft of thing without charging for it, and as soon as the price goes over $0 the market is much smaller.
It's a much bigger decision to pay at all than it is to pay $10 or $20.
They have a business model that requires payment for anything but the most trivial uses (which is great, they'll be profitable, but it is a definite brake on growth). Hard to do that soft of thing without charging for it, and as soon as the price goes over $0 the market is much smaller.
It's a much bigger decision to pay at all than it is to pay $10 or $20.