The point is people on HN missed the potential of Dropbox because for them it was a problem they already had a half solution for. For regular people who don’t know what an rsync is, Dropbox seemed like magic.
The moral of the story is that if a solution is only available to a technicaly savvy minority, the market opportunity is still wide open.
The point is people on HN missed the potential of Dropbox because for them it was a problem they already had a half solution for. For regular people who don’t know what an rsync is, Dropbox seemed like magic.
The moral of the story is that if a solution is only available to a technicaly savvy minority, the market opportunity is still wide open.