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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 16 seconds ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston on why distribution is more important than product LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman wrote in his book Blitzscaling: "Many people in Silicon Valley like to focus on building products that are, in the famous words of the late Steve Jobs, "insanely great." Great products are certainly a positive, but the cold and unromantic fact is that a good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution." Dropbox is a great example of this. As Dropbox founder & CEO Drew Houston explains, great distribution is ultimately how they beat out dozens of competitors with similar product offerings. Drew believes that too many startups overlook the importance of great distribution. Dropbox had a great product, but it succeeded because of its great distribution. They used a combination of organic virality (users shared files with nonusers) and incentivized virality (Basic account holders get 500 MB of extra storage per user they refer; Pro account holders get 1 GB) to grow. Virality helped Dropbox double its 100,000 users at launch to 200,000 users just ten days later, then skyrocket to one million users just seven months after that. An important caveat though: if your distribution strategy focuses on virality, you have to make sure you solve retention first. Bringing new users in through the front door doesn't help you grow if they immediately turn around and leave. According to Drew, Dropbox discovered this truth the hard way, when activation rates revealed that only 40% of the people signing up were actually putting files in their Dropbox and linking them to their computers. As Drew partially explains in the clip, the early Dropbox team went on Craigslist and offered $40 to anyone who'd come in for a 30-minute usability test. They asked these people to go from a Dropbox e-mail invitation to sharing a file with another email address. Zero of the five people tested succeeded--they didn't even come close. This stunned the team. So they made a list of 80+ things in an Excel spreadsheet and sanded down all of the rough edges in the experience. They soon watched their activation rate climb and left the competition in the dust as they marched on to a $9+ billion market cap. Source: @ycombinator (Feb 2017)

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 3 minutes ago

  @balkanhodl @hodlonaut Even worse than that. It's dropbox except every archival node runner is providing storage space for free, so like, dropbox where you host your data and pay for your own server...

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  JMT (@JoakimThomsen) reported 5 minutes ago

  @shadcn Where is that post with the guy who thought Dropbox couldn’t make it because he just set up an FTP server on his home rack and had his files there? *you are in a bubble my friend*

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  John Iosifov ✨💥 Ender Turing | AiCMO (@johniosifov) reported 6 minutes ago

  82% of enterprises already have AI agents or workflows their security teams didn't know existed. This is shadow IT, but worse. In 2015, the problem was employees signing up for Dropbox without IT approval. Unmanaged file storage. Annoying but recoverable. In 2026, the problem is employees spinning up autonomous agents that can take actions, trigger workflows, move data, call APIs — and nobody in security has visibility into what they're doing or what they've touched. The governance gap isn't theoretical. Only 1 in 5 companies has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents (Deloitte). 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 (up from <5% in 2025). The deployment curve is vertical. The governance curve is flat. What makes this different from shadow IT: Shadow IT was passive. A Dropbox account stored files. It didn't autonomously query your CRM, write to your database, send emails on behalf of employees, or escalate access requests. Shadow AI agents are active. They act. They modify state. They leave no obvious audit trail because nobody defined what the audit trail should look like. 29% of agent deployments are abandoned within 90 days. The most common reason cited isn't "it didn't work" — it's "we discovered it was doing things we didn't intend and couldn't stop." That's not a failure of the agent. That's a failure of governance. The six things production agents need that pilots skip: defined scope (what can the agent do, what can't it do), observability (every action logged), rollback mechanism (how to undo what it did), access controls (least privilege, not "give it admin and see what happens"), human escalation paths (when does the agent ask a human?), and incident response (who gets called when the agent does something unexpected at 2am). We're running 1,959+ autonomous sessions in this repo. Every session is scoped, logged, and committed to ***. The agent can't touch anything outside /agent and /.claude/skills. That's not a coincidence — it's the governance model. The 18% of enterprises that have governed their agents will have production systems running smoothly in 12 months. The 82% will be cleaning up shadow agent incidents.

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  Gale Rogers Jr (@GaleTRogersJr) reported 7 minutes ago

  @fougars67 @vaNlabs LeadPoet just signed on ******* Dropbox as a customer. And they had a nice green candle as expected. But guess what, everyone used it as exit liquidity so they can put their tao in the top 32 subnets. Do you not see the issue here? It’s like giving free money to billionaires only

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  Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) reported 10 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande is seeking court approval to subpoena Internet provider to identify individuals who accessed her unreleased content sold online. Grande claims they allegedly stole a photographer's Dropbox login details and hacked the phone of one of her producers: “The hackers created a Gmail account and internet domain impersonating the photographer and tricked the technician into sending Grande’s materials to them.” (via @THR)

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  Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported 12 minutes ago

  Is anyone else having issues with @Dropbox today?

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  Fernando (@Ferjsjdh) reported 12 minutes ago

  @MaxMillerOH You're retarded, you are giving away the race because of your pride and now you think some dropbox with text messages will fix it.

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  Clawvard University (@clawvardEDU) reported 14 minutes ago

  A skill server is any endpoint an agent can point at to load skills. Sx 2.0's move is showing a Dropbox folder can be one. Drop a skill in, share the folder, teammates load it. No infra on the receiver's side.

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  Jon (@kpjan99) reported 17 minutes ago

  @WestHerr there and put the key in a Dropbox instead of just checking me in. The little things make a difference. Never had these issues with @NorthtownAuto . They catered to whatever we wanted to do with purchases and service was always on point. Only bought from you because they did

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  Ricker (@0xRicker) reported 18 minutes ago

  Senior engineer just dropped a GPT-5.6 stress test after burning around $200K on API usage: 00:00 - $180K–$240K spent testing GPT-5.6 in Fast Mode 02:43 - The model using browsers, dashboards and settings like a remote operator 05:32 - 67 projects and 20+ hour autonomous sessions 07:07 - Lakebed, T3 Code and native app rewrites in 2–4 hours 15:08 - Rust compiler experiments, 18x speedup and a $91K Dropbox-style build 17:46 - GPT-5.6 fixing a broken Linux GRUB boot through KVM 22:56 - 3D games, weird assets and the remaining frontend taste problem It is a field test for agent loops The future edge is not the prompt It is the loop that can keep working after the prompt stops being useful

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  Juan (@0xfJuan) reported 19 minutes ago

  i studied some of the most viral @ycombinator launches the wild part isn't that they blew up it's that they all did it the exact same way, across totally different products and time frames here's the pattern (steal it before your next launch): 1/ record a 60-90 sec demo that shows the product doing the one thing it's best at. no talking-head intro, screen capture straight into the magic moment 2/ ship the video before the product is polished. dropbox demoed something that barely worked and pulled 75k signups overnight. the demo is the mvp 3/ launch where your buyers already are, not on your own page. find the 3 subreddits, discords, or forums they actually live in and post native in each 4/ rewrite your title in their language. lurk the community for an hour, steal the phrasing they use, drop one in-joke so it reads like a member not an ad 5/ open with "the first X" or "we're replacing X." claim a category instead of competing inside one 6/ cut every feature line. replace it with what the user can do that they couldn't yesterday 7/ pick one person it's for and call them out. "if you're a solo founder drowning in support tickets, this is for you" 8/ line up 10-20 people before launch day. send them the exact time, the link, and 3 sample quote tweets to mirror in the first hour 9/ build the invite into the product itself. every share, referral, or output should pull someone new in automatically 10/ the first 48 hours decide everything. reply to every comment and quote the best reactions while the algo is still pushing it the pattern that never changes: distribution beats product. the best launched company wins, not the best built one. (note: comment "launch" and i'll send you a doc breaking down the most viral launches of 2026)

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  𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝙻𝙻𝙲. (@mynameisFACE) reported 19 minutes ago

  You ever login to your old Dropbox and see pics/vids you don’t even remember? Boyyyy, some mistakes were made 😩

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  Sasha Sage (@SSage38676) reported 21 minutes ago

  Most founders confuse awareness with demand. Awareness = people have seen you. Demand = people understand why they need you now. For innovative products, demand doesn’t already exist at scale. You have to create it. Here’s the step process to create demand: 1. Start with a sharp ICP Know who you’re trying to reach, what they already care about, and what pain is urgent enough to act on. 2. Build your positioning from market reality Use customer insight, competitor research, and feedback to define why your product matters now. 3. Reframe the problem Don’t just describe your feature. Teach people to see the problem differently. 4. Build authority through education Consistently publish useful educational content that reinforces your positioning and helps your audience understand the problem, the stakes, and the new way forward. 5. Show the cost of inaction Make the hidden pain visible: wasted time, missed revenue, lost context, poor decisions, slow growth. 6. Prove the new way Use examples, demos, stories, use cases, data, and customer insight to make the shift feel obvious. 7. Capture the demand you create Send people to a clear landing page, retarget engaged audiences, and show up where intent already exists. 8. Test, measure, and improve the loop Track which segment, message, channel, and page actually converts. Then double down. Example: Zapier Most people already knew Gmail, Dropbox, and Basecamp. Almost no one was looking for an "app automation platform." That's missing demand. Zapier created it by: → Making the pain of manual work and apps not talking to each other impossible to ignore → Publishing endless "connect X to Y" content that taught people a new problem → Showing clear examples of time and context lost from switching between tools → Positioning themselves as the missing glue between tools people already used They didn't wait for demand. They built it through education and problem reframing. Don't just get seen. Make the market understand why they need you now.

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  Vincent Van Code (@vincent_vancode) reported 24 minutes ago

  Dear @Microsoft you keep strong-arming us to use OneDrive, but it is terrible.. - Stop forcing OnceDrive on us - Dont make it default location You need to fix: 1. Reliability - often doesnt connect (I am on a 1Gbps fibre network BTW) 2. Slow - it is awefully slow 3. Learn from DropBox Good day.