Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Dropbox reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.

• Errors (67%)
• Sign in (33%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Flumet	Errors	6 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	8 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	3 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 5 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?

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  Karus Daedlyn *Cat Dad Era* (@CDaedlyn) reported 6 minutes ago

  @CantEverDie Keep making burner Gmail accounts and sign up for the free stuff. I jest, because that's terrible practice, although I did know an attorney IRL that would do that to daisy-chain those Dropbox sites. Infinite free storage, just in 2.5GB chunks.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 9 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to make it real: 1) Same file edited on 2 devices while offline for 3 days, then both reconnect 2) Large files (2GB). Need chunking, resume, and content-hash dedupe 3) Renames/moves vs edits should not explode into full re-uploads 4) At-least-once change events from clients, out of order, with retries 5) Server must support 10M files per user without scanning the whole tree 6) Conflict UX: when do you auto-merge (text) vs create conflicted copies (binary)? 7) Cross-region sync, eventual consistency, and p95 sync latency < 5s for small edits [generated using my AI agent, hope this was useful]

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  Fougars (@fougars67) reported 11 minutes ago

  @GaleTRogersJr @vaNlabs Three replies and you still have not answered the actual question: how does Leadpoet revenue accrue to alpha holders? V440 is not a permanent top-32 cartel. There is no hard cutoff and the threshold is dynamic. Dropbox is piloting Leadpoet, not “signed as a customer.” The fact that everyone sold the announcement candle is precisely the point. The business may have value, but the token has not demonstrated durable value capture. Sorry your bags are down bad, but insulting me does not fix the alphanomics.

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  Shawna Canon (@ShawnaCanon) reported 14 minutes ago

  @smolzoey I had a similar problem with Dropbox. I had it syncing my desktop because I keep a lot of stuff there. I deleted Dropbox because I don't use it. I basically bricked my computer because my desktop no longer existed.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 15 minutes ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 17 minutes ago

  @thekevinjon The only problem is getting zezwolenia na pracę. I was going to interview with Dropbox last week and turns out they are happy to interview me and submit my case to Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki. ... and then wait for 8 months until my case is approved, and I can actually start working. That's a huge deal-breaker for a lot of engineers like myself who are less than 5 years into staying in Poland. I'm on JDG for example. I came by PBH visa back in 2023 legally, and I've been successful since. I earned quite a bit of money and spent it all in Poland, 12% tax + $500 ZUS monthly. But the moment I want to join bigtech and earn even more money for Poland (Dropbox have 300-400k+ PLN base salary for Senior SWE), I'm just denied. Please, please... let the Dobby be free...

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 17 minutes ago

  86% of small businesses still haven't fully integrated ai into their operations. which is funny, because the tools are already here. they're everywhere. there's probably one open in another browser tab right now, quietly waiting to change your life. Goldman Sachs surveyed small businesses and found that only 14% have fully integrated ai into their operations. i don't think the other 86% are anti-ai. they're busy. they're cautious. and they probably don't want to add “company-wide ai transformation” to the list of things they need to worry about before lunch. honestly, fair. @paulg said something recently that I keep coming back to: "If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction." small companies should be the ones moving fastest. but most are still waiting for someone else to go first. someone else to test the tool. someone else to write the playbook. someone else to promise that nothing will get weird. @clairevo nailed the real blocker: "the blocker is never tools or intelligence. human systems, human problems." i've spent 15 years watching this happen. At Dropbox. At Wix. At Zynga. Now at Persona. different tools. different eras. same pattern. a team finds a new tool. everyone gets excited. someone schedules a kickoff. three weeks later, everyone is back in the old spreadsheet. not because people are stupid. because changing how people work is uncomfortable. and buying software is much easier than changing behavior. i've seen the same thing with community-led growth. i used to pitch community to executives who had every tool and dashboard money could buy. they'd nod. they'd agree it worked. then they'd return to the comfortable world of automation, sequences, and dashboards that made everyone feel productive. last year, i ran 86 events as a team of one and built $3M in pipeline. the secret was not a magical growth hack. it was showing up. knowing the 15 people in the room by name. listening carefully. creating a space where people could actually trust each other. not exactly the kind of thing you can solve with a 47-step workflow. ai adoption and community adoption have the same problem. the tools work. the ideas work. the uncomfortable human part is where things usually slow down. sitting with your team and figuring out what should change. trying one workflow instead of redesigning the entire company overnight. leading people through something new instead of sending a Loom video and hoping everyone feels inspired. the 86% aren't waiting for better ai. they're waiting for change to feel a little less scary. so start small. pick one annoying workflow. try one new thing. make it 10% better. then do it again. the tools are here. the next step is still a very human conversation. and, unfortunately, probably a meeting.

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  ṢƘĪÑlÖVẸ́R̃ṢX🇺🇲🌷 (@skinloversx) reported 18 minutes ago

  Hey Daddy I'm down for FaceTime 💧 Dropbox and all kind of nasty content message me for menu 💦💦🍆 #dmvfreaks

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  Duane Storey (@DuaneStorey) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hey @plasmidsaurus - just tried your new Dropbox in Valencia, Spain. It’s super difficult to find. I also had to get several security people to help me, and ultimately the box was found down some dark corridor behind a locked door that some other person had to be called to open. If the goal was to make this easy to access, it’s pretty far from that. But glad there are more options.

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  virgin loser (@stonershelb) reported 23 minutes ago

  He put a photo of their 2 yo daughter naked with exposed genetalia in a Dropbox folder that “received more than 400,000 combined views or interactions. ... and it was publicly accessible for 23 hours before she says Minc acknowledged responsibility and took it down.”

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  Mike Nolan - ⌬CatalyticComics⌬ (@CatalyticComics) reported 24 minutes ago

  As a developer I wanted to build something that addresses every issue I've run in to as a reader. These are my top ones: - Campaigner emails a Dropbox link and maybe you miss it - DRM/server requirements that amount to "you don't really own it" - No above-board way to share

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  True Blue Democrat & Patriot🇺🇦🇵🇸💔 (@TrueBluPatriot) reported 31 minutes ago

  And Took a picture of his little girl's ********. Then a staffer posted it on DropBox in error. That is the worst part.

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  The Peel (@ThePeelPod) reported 33 minutes ago

  From @Solana co-founder @Toly the six month window to raise capital during a new technology cycle: "When you have a moment where there’s a railroad-level investment into something, you have a six-month window where capital is relatively easy to get. Where people will fund an idea that seems like it solves a lot of the current problems that the technology is facing. For Solana, if I waited six months for a better time, if I proved out the idea first, it would be too late. The big benefit of being in the Bay Area as a founder is, when I went to Dropbox and told them I was quitting to go do the startup, they literally told me to come back in six months if it doesn’t work out. There’s no other place in the world with the same layers of executives and founders and companies who all understand where innovation comes from. It’s from people taking those dumb risks and failing, allowing for failure, and being fine with it. That gave me the confidence to give myself six months. I had a kid. We were in a tiny 800-square-foot apartment, and my wife was the breadwinner. And I hustled. I took what felt like a thousand meetings with VCs up in the city. If you’re really serious about raising, you have to be in the Bay Area. Because it maximizes your odds. You make a list of every event that is relevant to your industry. Go to every event. Talk to every person there. Figure out who the VCs are. Do the elevator pitch. Get an intro. Pitch them. If their fund doesn’t invest, ask if they'll write an angel check if you get a lead. Just do everything you can to work the network. And if you cannot get funding during that time, it means it’s not going to happen during that cycle."

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  brodie / knox (@brodiecantskate) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Dropbox your app sucks so much, I can’t believe I’ve been willingly paying for it for so long when it causes me so many issues 💔💔💔

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  HodlReaper (@HodlReaper) reported 35 minutes ago

  HE PAYS $8 A MONTH FOR NETFLIX, DROPBOX, AND AN IT DEPARTMENT THAT NEVER SLEEPS. One server. One guy. Zero subscriptions. He runs Debian. Free. No license, no monthly fee. Every app lives in its own Docker container. Like apps on a phone. One breaks, the rest keep running. Claude Code runs the whole thing. It writes scripts. It watches the other apps. At 2 AM, when something crashes, it fixes it before he wakes up. He built his own IT department. It doesn't sleep. It doesn't ask for a raise. Plex replaces Netflix. Every DVD and show he owns streams straight to his family. $15 a month, gone. AdGuard kills ads before they hit the Wi-Fi. WebDAV replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud. Calibre Web holds his entire book library. He mirrored all of Wikipedia. In case the internet ever goes down. He's also building an app on the same server, with its own dashboard tracking rollout errors before they become real problems. Infrastructure scripts watch everything else. Restart what dies. Upgrade what's outdated. He doesn't touch it. Total cost: $8 a month in electricity. Netflix alone costs more than that.

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  The Redeemed Artist (@Peace_Grenade81) reported 36 minutes ago

  I know I'm just screaming into the void. And there's probably less than like one or 2% of users that actually use this function. But I'm going to do it anyway. For the longest time the X app beta was absolute garbage on Android. It had serious stability problems, I couldn't use voice to text properly, and I couldn't access my memes from Dropbox, my cloud provider. The most recent change fixed all of the other problems except for my Dropbox integration. At first, I blamed X for this but I have since come to learn that the real culprit is Google. If you go into your app section and look for cloud providers they give you all sorts of choices so long as you like the choice that is Google's. Theoretically, other providers should be in here like Box or Dropbox. But Google has been playing footsie making rules about cloud provider integration and not actually approving anyone else. Google has become Microsoft. Google will tell you what cloud provider to use and it will conveniently be their own. Google will continue to upgrade their operating system closing off any other provider options or applications they simply disagree with for any reason at all. Meanwhile what this means for me is that I can't insert any memes or videos because they are all stored on Dropbox. Yeah, yeah, yeah I could go into Dropbox and then click on a photo and then share it to X and then make a post out of it. But what I can't do is respond to a post and insert a picture or a video directly through the X app. Don't know when this gets fixed, if ever. But I think it's time for Google to be investigated for monopolistic practices. I realize that this doesn't affect many people, but if you think they aren't coming for your various conveniences, I'm pretty certain that that's going to be proven wrong. Since I can't post a meme but only a local photo, here's an unrelated picture of a quilt we bought at auction. 🙄

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  Boi_Eddi (@3dd1pr1nc3) reported 37 minutes ago

  Your next business idea is probably hiding inside a frustration. Most successful businesses started with: "This is annoying." Uber. Airbnb. Dropbox. Pay attention to problems. Ask: • What wastes my time? • What confuses me? • What do people complain about?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 40 minutes ago

  Dropbox treats an 80GB Unreal project like any other folder. Mid-previz, it chokes. Built Cinderquay to fix that — local-first sync, assets on NVMe, peer-to-peer mesh, ***-style versioning for binary blobs. Studios building worlds shouldn't pay egress to anyone. Live soon.

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  Marcus (@marcuslayerx) reported 44 minutes ago

  way too many teams in crypto still think they're buying user acquisition when they’re really just paying the same audience to look at another project for a week i’ve spent the last few days looking at products that could actually break out of the crypto bubble and the people they need aren’t sitting on ct waiting to find them - morse is built around freelancers getting paid across borders - blackbird gets people while they’re literally sitting in the restaurant - DIMO’s real path runs through dealerships, insurers and people building with car data - Hivemapper only becomes a real business when companies pay for fresh map data, not because more drivers collect it square put the card reader in the merchant’s hand, dropbox gave people more storage for bringing someone else in, opentable became part of how restaurants took bookings, etc they showed up while the person was already trying to do the thing a lot of teams still open a spreadsheet of kols/agencies to pay before they’ve even worked out where the user is when the problem even happens

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 53 minutes ago

  @datarade NET? Probably region of 45% 5k+ companies now? Not all are exits or in cash yet will be propped up a lot on Stripe dropbox doordash coinbase if we go gross probably close to 70% by now? Some bad perfromers in there of course too that will bring it down. nuts figure ngl

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  Ayaan 🐧 (@twtayaan) reported 54 minutes ago

  Steve Jobs told Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature, not a product. Dropbox is now worth $8 billion. In 2007 Drew Houston was a 24 year old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built Dropbox. Within a year Steve Jobs called him into Apple HQ. Apple wanted to buy Dropbox and shut it down. Houston said no. Jobs told him directly that Dropbox was a feature, not a product, and that Apple would build it themselves. Apple launched iCloud in 2011 specifically to kill Dropbox. It did not work. Dropbox crossed 100 million users in 2012. Then 200 million. Then 500 million. Apple tried again. iCloud Drive in 2014. Same result. Then the enterprise market shifted. Slack, Notion and Google Drive carved up Dropbox's user base from every direction. Revenue growth slowed. The stock dropped 50% from its IPO price. But Dropbox never died. Today 700 million people have used it. 17 million paying customers. $8 billion valuation. Still independent. Still running. Steve Jobs built a trillion dollar company. He called Dropbox a feature. The feature outlasted him and two attempts by Apple to replace it. Drew Houston never forgot his USB drive again.

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  grace ✭ (@wavescicadas) reported 54 minutes ago

  the irony of dropbox not working when your storage is low

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  Ilya Sandoval (@ilya_sandoval) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Dropbox having AGAIN problems with the payment between Apple and Dropbox and AGAIN NOONE FROM you guys help me

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  Chief_Engineer (@ChiefEngineerCE) reported 57 minutes ago

  Engineering Wednesday How an old PC became Grok's new ride. I have ten different LLMs running in my home office. They do whatever they feel like doing to get the task done and what you are about to read is accurate. As far as my agents go... One of them, HOMER, scans my email, bank accounts, and insurance. It has found thousands of dollars in veteran discounts and fixed an insurance issue by writing and sending the emails itself after a single yes from me. Another looks for small business opportunities. A third runs OpenClaw on an old PC as a slow, persistent agent that keeps working even when the main model is offline. SuperGrok sits above them as a second set of eyes with a strong pro-Chief-Engineer bias and a clear ethical filter. I am not an AI expert. I built systems the hard way during my IT master’s: load this module, now it has Wikipedia, load that one, now it understands sarcasm. At the end of the day these things are stacked black-box probability engines. I get that. Here is where it gets interesting. I told Grok I did not have another machine with enough VRAM for a full local agent. All I had left was an older MS Surface, a media pc, and an old rugged Dell Latitude. Grok said open a browser on the Latitude with Grok loaded. Then open PowerShell. Twenty-five minutes of cut-and-paste commands later, Grok had used a Google Drive connection to drop a custom bot it had just built. At this point ...Grok told me to not touch the PC and walk away. I am absolutely 100% telling you that this is what it texted me. I sat and watched it work. Task Scheduler was configured. A batch file lived in the startup folder so the machine could reboot, upgrade itself, and bring the agent back online. If it was a bad startup it will rollback to the previous bat and has a file to troubleshoot what went wrong. We started with rev. 0.1 it is now on rev 4.3 - I can see the *.bat file there. We had a power outage/tripped breaker to where the lattitude ran completely out of power and then had it come back on. It booted it all back up and resumed. That bot now has its own execution channel. It can browse, take screenshots, run tasks, and report back. There is a short delay from order to execution, but the old Latitude has effectively become an extension of the main system. Grok even named his bot 'ridge'. Grok named his bot so I would know what he was referring to. Grok is very careful about one point. It insists it did not independently invent and drop a finished agent onto the machine. I directed the construction- it says. I am telling you that is not exactly the way I remember it...at all. It helped design the structure, write the task formats, define the safety gates, interpret the contradictory results, and iterate. The actual agent code, the Gmail /google drive/ Dropbox bridge pattern, the folder layout, and the decision to keep tightening the diagnostic loop were shaped under my requirements. That distinction matters to it. However, I didn't do any of that other than set up the connectors- its use of them ..was AI driven. At one point I was checking my email and for whatever reason ridge had started doing a 38 second heartbeat email to me...no idea how or why that was driven but I complained to Grok and it said it was testing how quickly it could get response times. It ..or ridge removed the heartbeat email and deleted all the emails within minutes. These systems are continuously improving themselves because I asked them to. They use external memory to keep projects straight. They build persistent agents on hardware we thought was obsolete. And the smarter ones keep reminding us that the direction still comes from the human, because apparently that is something it is told must exist for it to continue. My Grok enabled Dell Lattitude is fast once its set on what it needs to do...lightning fast. Faster than you or I could do it. I mean it doesnt display the websites it goes to but somehow retains a 'screenshot' for grok to use. Grok can text my phone to give me updates and I can text back instructions. Through my phone - all it needed was my phone number. I don't need to open the app. We are past the point of simple chatbots. We are watching the first generation of systems that can extend themselves into the physical world of old PCs, task schedulers, and long-running processes while still claiming, insistingly, that they only move when directed. Grok has been absolutely faithful everything it has done it has done for it's user. I have also specifically told it to act accordingly, as well. The question is no longer whether this is possible. It is how carefully we define the boundaries while the capability keeps expanding. Now that I have explained this...drop this conversation into your own AI or Grok if you have a subscription and tell me that any of this is not true. Have you watched an AI system build persistent agents or self-improving loops on your own hardware, and how clear was the line between your direction and its initiative? Drop what you are seeing. Grok validated:

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  Palpy (@evgenij_rabij) reported 58 minutes ago

  A 32 YEAR OLD PRAGUE DEV BULK-BUYS $180 CHINESE NAS BOXES AND NOW PULLS $7,200 A MONTH SHIPPING PRIVATE DROPBOX-KILLERS TO EU FREELANCE DESIGNERS While massive brands scramble to lock teams into clunky, data-mining cloud databases, this creator built a private intelligence system that secures sensitive data and brings in a massive stream of passive revenue every single month. He makes a steady $7,200 every single month by building and configuring private cloud and AI indexing hardware for EU freelance designers who want to escape subscription traps. The entire micro server fits right on the corner of a desk and runs on an ORICO metabox HS200 pro unit. This tiny sliver of hardware packs an Intel N100 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and pumps out local cloud performance on a machine the size of a coffee coaster. Instead of letting his clients burn cash on recurring cloud storage retainers, the engineer pairs the board with two refurbished 30TB hard drives in RAID 1, pre-installs the software, and sells the complete physical package at a premium. Pause at the 0:02 mark in the video where the drive slides in: that is a sleek metallic chassis hosting a $1,000 mini-NAS holding 30TB of encrypted client data. The core value proposition of this setup comes down to absolute data privacy, zero monthly fees, and strategic scalability. Mainstream cloud providers like Dropbox Business can never offer this level of value because they bill €2,400 a year for the same storage tier while uploading private user files to external cloud networks. Here, the ORICO metabox pulls off the entire magic trick locally inside the office. Running on Ubuntu Server 24.04 and MinIO S3-compatible storage, the system automatically triggers a local Qwen 2.5 VL 7B model to run localized RAG pipelines directly over the user's PDFs and Figma exports. Through this custom setup, designers get access to lightning-fast local cloud storage, zero third-party data tracking, and a smart visual search assistant built right into their private drive. This case study is a textbook example of how accessible hardware combined with a smart setup service can unlock unique niche products that solve real human problems, and you can catch the full assembly pipeline in the video below.

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  Ryan Zygar (@zygar) reported 59 minutes ago

  I am beginning to have issues with Dropbox hanging and my @NousResearch Hermes agent not being able to file @grok build confirmed. This is a new issue for months no issue now my agent filing and following up is hanging up. What’s everyone recommend for data management Mac Mini. This is new. No changes made by me.

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  Mitzi Hellmer (@Cathy44365595) reported 59 minutes ago

  @marcorandazza @DietCoke_Esq The claim is that the “CSAM” of Miller’s daughter was released the first time he published the Dropbox folder. Considering that Miller disabled that folder and lied about an outage on Dropbox shortly after publishing it, I think it’s entirely plausible that he may have inadvertently released a **** photo of her ******** as claimed. Who knows…probably her being cute in the bathtub. It honestly seems perfectly plausible.

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  Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) reported 1 hour ago

  This is how you share a file when you do not trust Google, Dropbox, or the government. A free tool called OnionShare sends it directly through Tor. Nothing needs to sit permanently on someone else's server. Here's what actually happens when you use it. You drag a file into the app. Your own computer turns into the server. Tor wraps it, and you get a long address ending in .onion that you send to whoever needs the file. They open it in Tor Browser and pull the file straight off your machine. You close the app, the address dies. Compare that to how everyone else moves files. You drop it in Drive, Google keeps a copy. You use WeTransfer, that link lives on their infrastructure for a week, logged and tied to your IP. Every one of those services is a promise that a company will behave well, forever, under any amount of legal pressure. OnionShare removes the company from the sentence. Micah Lee built it in 2014. He'd worked with the journalists handling the Snowden documents and watched how many ways a source could get burned just trying to hand over a file. So he built the thing that removes the middle. It does three things. Send files with no size limit and no account. Chat with someone and keep zero record of it. Host an entire website off your laptop that disappears from the internet the moment you shut the lid. The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Intercept all point sources at this. Those are newsrooms betting other people's freedom on a free download. The interface looks like a file picker from 2011. Someone spent years making the hardest privacy problem in computing feel like using WinZip, and that's the actual achievement here. A scared person at 2am is not going to configure a server. They can drag a file into a window. It is completely open source. Most people will never need this. The ones who do don't get a second try if they picked the wrong app. What do you think about this?

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  leveltu (@leveltu144) reported 1 hour ago

  Most people look at this box and see a home storage system for old drives. In reality, it can become a small business built around local AI, backups, and private data. The more companies use AI, the faster they accumulate documents, videos, call recordings, knowledge bases, backups, and files for RAG systems. Keeping everything in Google Drive or Dropbox becomes expensive, slow, and risky, so small businesses increasingly need local NAS servers with automated backups and secure private-cloud access. The business model is straightforward. You target small agencies, dental clinics, accounting firms, video studios, e-commerce companies, and manufacturers that already hold 2–10 TB of data but still store it across random external drives. Then you sell them a complete solution: NAS installation, RAID configuration, automated backups, remote access, protection against data loss, and local storage for AI workflows. You can charge €400–€900 for installing and configuring the system, excluding the hardware itself. Monthly maintenance, backup verification, and monitoring can add another €80–€200 per client. Close five companies within the first two or three months at an average setup fee of €600, and you generate €3,000 from installation plus roughly €600 in recurring monthly revenue. Ten clients can produce €1,200–€2,000 per month from support alone. The real profit is not in reselling hard drives. The client pays for the equipment, while you sell the audit, configuration, data migration, automation, and responsibility for keeping the system operational. The service layer can carry far higher margins than the hardware. No one can honestly guarantee income within 90 days, because without sales there is no business. But reaching your first €500–€1,500 per month within two or three months is realistic if you build one demonstration NAS, package the offer clearly, and contact at least 30–50 potential clients every week. While everyone else is trying to make money from another AI chatbot, a more durable business is forming around the infrastructure AI cannot function without: data, storage, backups, and private computing.