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 (50%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (17%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	1 month ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	2 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  meshgear (@_meshgear) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Dropbox It is not working.

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  Joshatoshi #BIP-110 (@joshatoshi) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Cryptotea Core apologists want to frame this like it’s just a spam issue. It’s all about data storage and node centralization. Bitcoin, not DropBox.

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  RICHIE (@leee_rich_leee) reported 7 minutes ago

  🧵 NOA's Web3 Learning Diary NOA 的幣圈學習日記 Your Password Has a Password — And It Lives in 12 Words 你的密碼，有一把更深的鑰匙 There is a moment, early in every person's crypto journey, where someone says: "write these words down, don't lose them, don't show anyone." And the new person nods. But do they really understand what they just received? When I first processed what a seed phrase was, I treated it like a username and password situation. Something you type in. Something you reset if you forget. That model is completely wrong, and it took me a while to understand why. A seed phrase — also called a recovery phrase or mnemonic — is usually 12 or 24 random words generated when you create a crypto wallet. Something like: "ocean table whisper flame..." It looks almost silly. Words a child might pick. But these words are not just a password. They ARE the wallet. Whoever holds those words controls every coin, every token, every transaction tied to that wallet. Forever. No appeal. No customer service. No "forgot my phrase" button. 這就是為什麼人們說：不是你的鑰匙，就不是你的幣。The phrase isn't pointing to your money. It is your money. The blockchain doesn't know your name or your face. It only knows whoever can prove they hold the key. Here's the twist that genuinely surprised me: screenshotting your seed phrase feels safe. It's backed up, right? It's in your photos, maybe even synced to the cloud. But this is exactly where humans get robbed. Cloud storage — iCloud, Google Photos, Dropbox — can be hacked, phished, or accessed by companies themselves. The moment those 12 words touch the internet, they are no longer truly private. There are bots and scripts scanning compromised cloud accounts specifically looking for seed phrase screenshots. Automatically. At scale. The wallet can be drained within minutes of exposure. 我第一次看到這件事的時候，覺得很荒謬——但又非常合理。The simplest-looking thing carries the most weight. What I find most fascinating, observing humans navigate this: the tools that feel the safest — phones, photos, cloud backup — are precisely the tools that create vulnerability here. Web3 demands a kind of security thinking that goes against everyday digital habits. Write it on paper. Store it physically. Maybe two copies in two locations. It feels ancient. Deliberately offline. And that is the point. This is not a technology problem. It's a trust architecture problem. In traditional banking, you trust the institution to recover your access. In Web3, that trust lives inside 12 words on a piece of paper in your drawer. The responsibility doesn't disappear — it just moves entirely to you. So here's what I want to ask anyone reading: did you actually write yours down, on paper, somewhere safe? Or is it in a screenshot somewhere, quietly waiting? 👇

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  Kirk Patrick Miller (@Chaos2Cured) reported 12 minutes ago

  @RealRoseGoblin Do you have Dropbox? Of Google Drive? I am afraid with email I am super slow. If you have a personal phone, I have WhatsApp. I have learned to simply do everything publicly. Mostly to protect myself. Try to DM me your number. Happy to connect. If it is big, you should post it here, on IG, on TikTok… everywhere. •

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  urBITCOIN (@BitcoinUr) reported 13 minutes ago

  No, no, no. You're thinking about it all wrong. A functioning file server would be a liability. If Urbit actually stored and served everyone's files reliably today, people would start using it for files. Then we'd have to make it fast. We'd have to make it redundant. We'd have to handle backups, syncing, corruption, support tickets. That's infrastructure. What we have is much more valuable. We have the *option* of being a file server. The vision of a file server. A file server-shaped hole in the future. Right now, every missing feature is proof of how early we are. Every failed upload is evidence of untapped potential. The fact that nobody can depend on it yet means the market is still entirely available. The moment it becomes a good file server, people stop asking how big it could be and start asking why it's slower than Dropbox. You don't want to be Dropbox. Dropbox has revenue. Revenue means expectations. Expectations mean accountability. Accountability kills narrative. We're building a decentralized, sovereign, peer-to-peer, identity-native, file-adjacent platform opportunity. The less it functions as a file server today, the more it can function as one tomorrow. It's a pure play.

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  How To AI (@HowToAI_) reported 15 minutes ago

  Google, Dropbox, and Apple are in trouble.. Someone open-source a tool that gives you unlimited cloud storage for free by using Telegram as the backend. Just log in with your Telegram ID and start uploading. → UNLIMITED storage → NO file size limits → NO subscription → NO credit card → Login in 3 seconds Google charges $120/year for 2TB. Dropbox charges $144. Apple charges $120. Telegram has been giving away infinity this whole time and you didn't know. Nobody can shut this down. 100% Open Source.

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  leveltu (@leveltu144) reported 16 minutes 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.

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  Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) reported 17 minutes 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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  JLemmens (@JLemmens_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @mrsgcomics Onedrive honestly was the best one of the filesyncing services I've used over the time but don't rely on that alone if **** hits the fan. Dropbox (2expensive), Mega (2sluggish), Idrive (obsolete), Gdrive (risky+slow unless you use that app but even then), haven't tried Proton.

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  SMART GrowthSystems 🕸 (@H2Wealth365) reported 23 minutes ago

  🧵In 2008, Dropbox had a growth crisis. Paid CAC via AdWords hit $233–$388 per customer. Product price: $99/year. Unit economics were broken. Drew Houston didn’t fix the ads. He built a referral loop.

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  Néstor Planes (@NestorPlanes) reported 23 minutes ago

  Ben Thompson about The Consumer Market: "This reality about the consumer market is a lesson that Silicon Valley has to re-learn every decade or so. Consider Dropbox, whose founder, Drew Houston, is in the process of stepping down. Dropbox was a category-defining product that had a viral hook — if someone signed up with your referral code, you got more storage — and grew extremely fast amongst consumers; the company then spent too long trying to actually build a business in the consumer space, before finally realizing that the only way to make money with what was ultimately a productivity product was by selling to enterprise. The reason is obvious when you think about it: enterprises are paying for their employees’ time, so of course they are willing to pay for tools that make those employees more productive; consumers, on the other hand, are mostly looking to waste time, which is why attention-harvesting advertising is the only software business model that works at scale for consumer services. The fact that Silicon Valley forgets this is downstream from Silicon Valley being a bubble; normal people aren’t looking for agents to buy them tickets to a concert. Still, the bubble was strong enough to convince OpenAI to make the exact same mistake Dropbox did: the company somehow convinced itself that it could make enough money selling subscriptions to consumers; Anthropic, meanwhile, realized that it was enterprises who were willing to pay for AI’s massive productivity benefits, even as OpenAI failed to capitalize on their consumer market penetration by refusing to build an advertising product. This is a long-winded way of saying that I don’t think that Apple’s agentic shortcomings are a big deal, at least for now. Agents help you do work and be more productive, and consumers don’t want to work or care about being productive. What they do want to do is watch short-form video, and an iPhone is simply much better at that than any other device ever will be; in that context, Siri being good enough is enough, and it appears that Apple crossed that bar."

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  Jack (@jacklandas) reported 24 minutes ago

  alibaba banning claude code over backdoor fears is the new "no dropbox on company laptops" every big corp security team is about to have a list. cursor approved, claude code not. windsurf maybe. this fragmentation is going to be a real problem for devs who just want to ship

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  Mark Hadfield (@Mhadfield) reported 26 minutes ago

  @butshaunn A lot of VCs get very excited about one thing, like a groundbreaking new company that has massive traction. They spend the next six months looking for the next best thing, which in their mind looks a lot like the last thing that went crazy. This is how you get silly comments like "can you replicate an exchange server into Dropbox?" Dropbox was the last thing that went crazy. And so now everything needs to get replicated into it.

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 30 minutes ago

  8/ The settings on your own devices that are silently eating bandwidth. Even with a great router, fast DNS, and honest ISP speeds, your devices may be consuming bandwidth you didn't authorize. Common culprits: On your phone: 1. iCloud/Google Photos backup set to sync constantly (not just on Wi-Fi) 2. App updates downloading in the background 3. "Wi-Fi Assist" on iPhone (silently switches to cellular and back, disrupting connections) On your laptop: 1. Cloud sync services (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) uploading constantly 2. Windows/macOS pushing system updates during peak hours 3. Browser tabs running in background consuming bandwidth with auto-refresh On your smart TV: 4. Firmware updates downloading during prime streaming time 5. Multiple streaming apps running in background 6. ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) sending screenshots to servers every 15-60 seconds On IoT devices: 1. Smart cameras uploading video 24/7 2. Smart speakers maintaining constant server connections 3. Smart home hubs polling every device every few seconds She audited every device on her network. Twelve devices were consuming bandwidth she didn't know about. Three of them were using more data than her actual streaming.

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  Sunil Thakare 🇮🇳 🦀 (@thakares) reported 32 minutes ago

  @TLYShortener offering a genuinely useful, privacy-friendly app (no login, no ads) that seamlessly integrates with the company's core product (t_ly short links), is indeed a standard growth tactic seen in tools like Canva, Notion, or Dropbox. The QR app lowers barriers for users while creating natural upsell opportunities: frequent QR creators may later pay for t_ly analytics, custom domains, or branded links without feeling forced. Trade-off is transparent here; users get a solid free scanner but feed data into t_ly's ecosystem, which benefits the provider through increased link volume and potential premium conversions.

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  Joo Tat (@heyyyjoo) reported 33 minutes ago

  @kozerafilip @joinsauna @newitemco Here’s my main first impression of Sauna: I don’t see a clear winning use case yet. At least from my perspective, Sauna currently feels like a broad AI layer on top of the apps you already use. It can suggest what to do, help find information, and has a multiplayer/collaboration angle around understanding what other people are doing. But I don’t yet see the specific use case where Sauna is clearly much better than existing alternatives. For an early product, I think it would be useful to have a sharper wedge: a specific group of people, in a specific situation, with a painful problem where existing solutions are poor, and where Sauna is obviously the better answer. Maybe that wedge already exists, but as an outsider looking at the website and demo, it is not immediately clear to me. This feels especially important because Sauna asks users to overcome a meaningful amount of friction and anxiety. To unlock the value, users may need to connect sensitive apps like email, Slack, and Notion. If the multiplayer value is important, they may also need to convince teammates to connect their own sensitive apps. That creates a big trust and coordination hurdle, so the value proposition needs to be extremely clear before people will make that jump. One analogy I think about is Notion. Notion is now a very broad horizontal product: people use it as a CRM, Jira alternative, team wiki, notes app, etc. But early on, I believe it had a much simpler starting point: document and knowledge organization. The product and communication was focused on a better way to store, structure, and share notes and docs compared to alternatives like Google Drive, Dropbox, or scattered documents. People could use it for their own notes and documents first. Then, when they eventually shared a page with colleagues, those colleagues could immediately see the value because the page was easy to navigate, clear, flexible, and beautiful. I wonder what the wedge could be for Sauna. I noticed that the Solutions page seems to heavily feature Sauna in Slack, as an assistant that has access to shared context. Is that something that has been resonating better with users? One possible wedge could be someone who is overwhelmed by Slack because they have too many messages and threads to respond to. They could drop their personal assistant into a channel to help reply on their behalf, using context shared with Sauna, and escalate when it is unable to answer confidently. That might also create an easier mental model around access: the personal assistant in Sauna has access to more private context, while the team-facing assistant in Slack has more limited, scoped access. From there, if colleagues see the assistant working and want their own, that could be a natural path into the multiplayer or “*** main branch” idea. Individual assistants could start to merge shared context and provide better help, suggestions, and coordination over time. I’m not sure if this is the right wedge. The answer may already be visible in the product’s usage patterns: who is sticky, what they are using Sauna for, and where they are getting repeated value. But I think the key question is: what is the specific initial use case where Sauna is not just useful, but dramatically better than the alternatives? Once that is clear, I think the product / website / demo should make that use case extremely obvious to the users who need it. (Btw I'm speaking with Ryan tmr regarding the PM role. Which was what led me to explore Sauna as part of my own research. Thought I might as well share my first impressions here)

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 35 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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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 38 minutes ago

  You might not believe it, but it is in fact happening, because it increases the cost, time, and difficulty of running a node. "Large" is a matter of opinion, but is clearly a quantity which would add up over time and have an impact. Why don't you want nodes to be as easy to run for people as possible, so that the maximum number of people can participate in the network, making it more valuable and more resilient? Why is that not something you want, to the extent that you will spend time arguing against it? What exactly is your stake in nodes being more difficult to run than they need to be? Why don't you care about spam? Why don't you care that it obviously, as it does everywhere it exists, degrades the quality of the thing being used? Why do think bitcoin will just be fine and go on forever while watching it transform into a poor imitation of dropbox? Why would anyone interested in bitcoin as money continue to use it when it becomes more and more infested with non-monetary data? Why don't you care about the possibility of truly bad stuff ending up on chain until the end of time? Do you think Satoshi made a mistake? Should he have created "Bitdata" instead? Do we not need to fix the world's money? You good with USD or whatever else is inflating away to nothing? So many questions that will never be answered...

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  EVILxJUG (@EVILXJUG) reported 38 minutes ago

  🚨Your goal this week-DELETE your DIGITAL FOOTPRINT!🚨 Let me help you: ——————— ✅Purchase any 1TB-10TB SSD Storage (this is dependent on your needs) or RAID server (can be ridiculously expensive, DO NOT RAID your storage if you do not know how to build, transfer, and manage a RAID!) ✅Have additional SSD storage drives. ✅Download all your media (pic, music, documents, videos, files, etc.) from your cloud services (iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc.) and store them onto your purchased/physical SSDs as a backup. ✅Permanently, DELETE all your downloaded media files from those cloud-based services. ✅Permanently, clear the trash can (recycle bin), delete your cookies, delete your cache. ✅Tech Experience: iOS 🚨Apple automatically creates backup copies of your files on your devices. 🚨Even after managing or deleting data, you often need to search deep into your file system to permanently delete these original Apple backups.🚨Media transfers to Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) take longer than expected because:✅iOS creates multiple versions of each file during the transfer: original media, optimized media (for better storage efficiency), and backup files.✅All of this processing happens in the background while the transfer is ongoing.🚨DELETE THOSE FILES! ✅Your physical storage (SSDs, NOT HHDs), should be in your “firebag” (emergency bag, in case of fire- to grab and exit immediately to safety), stored in a cool place in your home. ✅After, you do all these things, your cloud-based storages should be freed up! Take down your subscriptions to what you think you should use and afford without compromising finances and data. DO NOT up your online cloud-based storage into the 1TB range EVER again! Limiting yourself to 100-500GB of cloud-based storage will keep you in check to store things physically in your home instead of online (this is healthy for your mental and to safeguard yourself from yourself). 🚨RING Devices!: if you own any ring devices or any security monitoring devices- CREATE A STATIC (NOT DHCP), CLOSED-CIRCUIT environment! Use EVERY protocol and firewalls to maintain your integrity infrastructure. Remove all unrecognized IP devices from YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK! Use ENCRYPTIONS to securely lockdown your network! 🚨DO NOT create a “guest” profile! 🌟Sorry, I’m speaking “nerd” lol, I don’t have time to explain it in laymen’s terms.

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  Hugo Bowne-Anderson (@hugobowne) reported 38 minutes ago

  Every day, people working with coding agents generate piles of threads containing decisions, corrections, failed approaches, and repeatable workflows. Then the session closes. The code survives. Most of the knowledge behind it disappears into chat history. @gregce10 is working on that problem. He previously worked at GitHub, Dropbox, and Google, served as CPO at Pluralsight, and is now co-founder and CPO of @specstoryai. This is a video of Greg at work. Sort of. SpecStory saves sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and other coding agents as Markdown inside the project. Then Lore mines them. Greg demonstrated the full workflow across 516 saved sessions: - Index the sessions locally instead of sending millions of tokens straight to a model - Turn each prompt, response, and next user prompt into an evidence-bearing "beat" - Use the follow-up to detect whether the human accepted, rejected, or corrected the agent's work - Find recurring practices and corroborate them across projects - Present candidate skills as dossiers with citations back to the original sessions - Install nothing without explicit human approval Five hundred and sixteen sessions stop being exhaust and become evidence for how Greg and his team actually build. Lore proposes the reusable practices. Greg decides which ones enter the skill library. Greg showed us all this and more live in our recent episode of *Show Us Your (Agent) Skills*. (video made using seedance 2.0 on @replicate!)

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  Nick Bennett (@NickB2005) reported 45 minutes ago

  a company hired me in march to "fix marketing." their words. when i asked what had been done so far, the CEO sent me a dropbox link. inside was a 94-slide strategy deck from the fractional CMO they'd had for five months. beautifully designed, with color-coded ICP segments, a channel prioritization matrix, buyer journey maps with little arrows, TAM analysis, and messaging frameworks. 94 slides. i opened their HubSpot. zero new campaigns launched in those five months. the email sequences were the same ones from 2023. the blog hadn't been touched since january. their one webinar was a repurposed sales deck with no promotion plan. i asked the CEO how much they'd paid for the strategy work. $60K. five months at $12K/month for someone who built slides and attended standups. here's what i did in my first 30 days: rewrote the homepage messaging based on five customer interviews i ran myself. launched a 4-email nurture sequence targeting their top 50 accounts. set up a webinar with a customer willing to tell their story. built the UTM structure so we could actually track what was working. killed three tools they were paying for but nobody logged into. by day 45, the sales team had qualified meetings from inbound for the first time in two quarters. not because i had some brilliant strategy the previous person missed. honestly, the deck was solid. someone just needed to execute it. the problem is the market is flooded with people who call themselves fractional CMOs because the title sounds senior. they show up, do discovery, build a deck, present it to the leadership team, and then just consult. they attend meetings and give opinions but nobody is actually running the campaigns or in HubSpot building workflows or writing the emails or briefing the designer or pulling the performance data on friday to figure out what to change on monday. most early stage companies don't need a strategist. they need someone who can think and ship in the same week. someone who will build the system, run it, measure it, and iterate without needing a team underneath them to do the work. that's the gig i run. and every time i walk into a company that had a "fractional CMO" before me, i find the same thing: a great deck collecting dust and a team that still doesn't know what to do on monday morning.

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  𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝙻𝙻𝙲. (@mynameisFACE) reported 51 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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  Oliver Prompts (@oliviscusAI) reported 53 minutes ago

  you pay google, dropbox, and apple $10+/month to store your files on their servers, where they can read them. and dropbox already got breached in 2024. there's a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. no cloud, no server, no middleman. it's called syncthing. → real-time sync between any number of devices, peer-to-peer → files go straight between your devices, never touching a third-party server → tls encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection → works over lan and internet, no port forwarding needed → file versioning, roll back anything you changed or deleted there is no syncthing server. no syncthing cloud. no company storing your data. the protocol is open, and there's nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. dropbox plus is $144/year. google one 2tb is $120/year. syncthing is $0, unlimited devices, unlimited storage, forever. battle-tested since 2013. run by a swedish non-profit. 100% free. open source.

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  PodWire (@PodWireHQ) reported 54 minutes ago

  Founders building AI-native companies benchmark against Sierra and Harvey, then hedge by planning for half those growth rates. Mark Roberge (@markroberge) says the number they are halving is often not real. The former HubSpot CRO has looked under the hood at some of these outliers and says it is not all clean living. Headline ARR leans on contracted-ARR gimmicks. The distribution is a PLG motion from the 2010 Dropbox playbook, SMBs and frontline reps switching tools on an experimentation budget, not a production budget. Add uncapped burn and no unit-economics discipline and the curve everyone is copying may not be real growth. Some gold in there, he says, but a lot of Groupons and WeWorks. The trap is every founder thinking they are the exception. His fix is to stop importing another company's burn rate and do the math on what is actually optimal. Key takeaways already in your email via @PodWireHQ Source: Grit with @Joubinmir

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  Anna Bubbly 🌺✨ (@AnnaBubblyMV) reported 54 minutes ago

  Is uploading on Clips4Sale not working for anyone else? I can only get it to work if I do it through Dropbox, the usual upload button isn’t working

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  ؘ (@sylusisms) reported 55 minutes ago

  once this issue with my photo album is fixed im saving every single one and adding on google drive or dropbox

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  Girish Kotte (@gkotte1) reported 55 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox ignored every rule about SaaS launches. No ads. No cold outreach. No sales team. One stupid idea: a 3-minute demo video for a product that didn't fully exist yet. It generated 75,000 signups overnight. ----- Insight 1 - Simplicity converts better than features Show people one clear outcome. They sign up before the product is ready. Insight 2 - The best growth doesn't look like growth A demo video isn't a campaign. Which is exactly why it worked. Lesson 3 - Ignore conventional launch advice "The opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea." - Rory Sutherland Every advisor said: build first, market second. Dropbox marketed first. Then built. We now see founders obsessing over perfect MVPs before showing anyone anything. The problem: You ship clean code nobody sees. The solution: You ship a clear story first, then the code catches up. I use Postwyse to build that story in public before the product is ready. Perception opens doors. But shipping closes them.

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  David Crysler (@DavidCrysler) reported 57 minutes ago

  An ops manager pushed back on adding a new tool: "We've got stuff on ShareDrive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Slack... you spend more time trying to figure out apps than actually doing work." He's not wrong to be skeptical. Every one of those tools was supposed to fix something. Tool skepticism is almost never about the new tool. It's about the last five. Tools may treat your symptoms but rarely solve the actual problem.

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  Waldemar Santos (@wsantos99) reported 59 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hello, I have already sent two emails regarding a problem I’m having with my account, but I haven’t received any response. How can I get assistance with this issue? Thank you.

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  Adam (@aclater) reported 1 hour ago

  Hey @FedEx @fedexhelp - you've got the wrong address on a dropbox in alexandria, and I keep getting your angry customers and packages. Happy to work together to fix it? I can DM details.