Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

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

• Errors (50%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	8 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	1 month ago
Bogotá	Website Down	1 month ago
Auxerre	Errors	1 month ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	1 month ago
Madrid	Errors	2 months ago

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 16 seconds ago

  track back to just over a year to now. i'd built an automated ecommerce flow that took a whole store end to end. seo would research trends, products, and map those into .js scripts which would launch prompts that read those research files. that would feed an image gen prompt which created designs, set to specific standard. i'd generate them, and then ANOTHER prompt, would check the images, score them with a criteria, and either move them to an accepted folder, or move them to an archive folder. the accepted folders, would automatically fire a script which would open photoshop, map the image to smart layers, in a 'product shot' template i'd made, and then export all of the final product shots to another folder, and then exported the flat designs which would be used for the products. another script took the product images, did visual lookups, generated all product descriptions, renamed the images and generated the seo text. it ran optimizations locally via a jpegoptim and oxipng script. it then uploaded them to dropbox, and via API, would generate a dropbox link map. i had one barebones csv template, which i'd run a ps1 script through to map json files into the csv rows, and insert the dropbox link map. all my images, links, followed the exact same slugs, so it turned 2 hours of manual work into a 5 second bulk rename and insert. it then converted that csv into json, which then itself converted that json into ld-json for product rich listings. ai would write the product description based on a dataseo keywords, and googletrends json file that would run on every product type. collecting keywords for that specific product. it also formed it around brand profiles, copy guides and other things. this was sonnet 3 days, GPT 4.0 days, and it STILL wrote great copy when it had the right guidance. in the .js file, i'd replace all em dashes with a hyphen if they ever appeared. i built a custom product uploader, built my own php plugin which synced to local .js files and connected via rest. it was (and still is) one of the best wc product uploaders that exist, as it completely resets filterlookups only for that product, and is lightning fast because i upload it directly into woocommerce rows from json. no importers, no wordpress malarkey, or WC rest needed. it was 50x faster than wc's own CSV import. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library, and i'd upload the image meta from the seo run, so they all had captions/alt text etc. it took what would be 3-5 hours of manual work per product, and congested it into a 2 minute image to fully live product system. after that, i'd export sales data, the ai was constantly learning, sales data feeding back to files, which would then teach the ai what products work, what doesn't. what copy worked, what copy didn't. that would then flow back into the original source files which told the ai what images to gen and what products to launch. all of it was local on my pc. i wasn't selling an saas. it was just something that worked for my very particular setup. the thing about it is; i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5! mostly copy and pasting code manually from the chats in chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans, when $10 used to last you an entire month of none stop coding. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that I built very specifically for myself, local, syncing folder to folder, json file to json file. python scripts watching files, and .ps1 files that would follow up with other .ps1 files, which launched .js files which contained prompts for AI, and hitting the openAI API's whenever I needed the AI layer. eventually i built a terminal tool, which would allow me to run the scripts from the terminal, and i'd manually type in the slugs for which products i wanted processed. all files would sit in specific folders, and scripts would do the rest. i was so excited about that, giving my terminal app a shortcut icon and putting it onto my taskbar. that was a year ago. fast forward to now. the game has changed so much. ANYTHING and i mean anything is possible now. people 'new' to codex, and CC etc don't know how good they have it. but i've had this ******* idea for so long, to build a fully automated, self learning ecom business, that launches products end to end based on it's own research, writing, and growth, but the complexity of it previously , and being busy with life, it never got finalized. the secret is i sync it via etsy too, but they're API keys take FOREVER to aquire, but built my own etsy system, product uploader, which runs across 7 different stores. however, now, i've finally been building the replacement for it. i'll be able to run that exact same system, except this time through a full app, with a canvas, and agent systems instead of .ps1 scripts. not to say i won't run scripts; they're an integral part of any automated workflow, but now it has superpowers, and it can do so so so much more. all the ideas I wanted to do, automated, fully, end to end. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is also fully automated end to end. my brand profiles, my artwork system? i'm still using those, just for more things. now i can launch 50 brands just like it, running the same system, all in about 5 minutes. whether it's saas, local service, or online ecom. i also built an ai automated ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removers, and full skills and agents which fully generate the ads for me. it mixes all that into seedance videos, and posts in logos etc. now i take those image/videos, and build instagram, tiktok, facebook vids, generate descriptions, and upload them automatically. it has an every growing library to source from, templates to use, and the system derives right with the websites, so all themes/styles match precisely to the brand. this is why it's so great building for yourself. the amount of reusability you get with it, the fact it's free forever, can never be beaten. none of these saas companies get it. and they're heading in the wrong direction. we could already DO half of what these companies are doing. my own personal SEO system, which i built for my automated web builder, is already 10x better than any yoast, rankmath etc. i skip expensive ahrefs, semrush, and just rebuild their services myself, using API, which is 100x cheaper. except this time it FEEDS my system, and i don't need to lay a finger on it. nobody cares about these little one off apps that won't exist in a year. they're either failing to see the future, or they're hoping for an early exit before they know the dominos start falling. people will want PRIVATE systems. all speaking to each other. not 1200 integrations and 1200 invoices to send to, that don't even have a ******* brain. i'm not selling anything yet. but if you're interested in seeing how i think about automation, then stay a while and listen. the tool i'm building will absolutely help you too. but i'll be honest. i'm actually quite scared to release it, solely down to how powerful it is. not many people do it like i do, and i'm finally on here to tell the world.

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  Naughty kayla🤤💦 (@Naughtykayla127) reported 2 minutes ago

  Bored and horny 🥺 who is down for my Dropbox and ft Discount price 🤭#jacksonvillemeets #904freaks #jaxfreaks

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  Informed Choice 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@DoreyMeryl67438) reported 4 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I have been trying to contact support unsuccessfully. It seems that my account has been deactivated by accident when another account linked to it was cancelled. I would love to hear back on how to fix this issue. My account was recently renewed so should be there. Thanks

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  Pelicart (@pelicartza) reported 5 minutes ago

  @lukey_stephens @_avdept real also - dropbox??? why would you pay $5 and not just set up an sftp server

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 6 minutes ago

  track back to just over a year to now. i'd built an automated ecommerce flow that took a whole store end to end. seo would research trends, products, and map those into .js scripts which would launch prompts that read those research files. that would feed an image gen prompt which created designs, set to specific standard. i'd generate them, and then ANOTHER prompt, would check the images, score them with a criteria, and either move them to an accepted folder, or move them to an archive folder. the accepted folders, would automatically fire a script which would open photoshop, map the image to smart layers, in a 'product shot' template i'd made, and then export all of the final product shots to another folder, and then exported the flat designs which would be used for the products. another script took the product images, did visual lookups, generated all product descriptions, renamed the images and generated the seo text. it ran optimizations locally via a jpegoptim and oxipng script. it then uploaded them to dropbox, and via API, would generate a dropbox link map. i had one barebones csv template, which i'd run a ps1 script through to map json files into the csv rows, and insert the dropbox link map. all my images, links, followed the exact same slugs, so it turned 2 hours of manual work into a 5 second bulk rename and insert. it then converted that csv into json, which then itself converted that json into ld-json for product rich listings. ai would write the product description based on a dataseo keywords, and googletrends json file that would run on every product type. collecting keywords for that specific product. it also formed it around brand profiles, copy guides and other things. this was sonnet 3 days, GPT 4.0 days, and it STILL wrote great copy when it had the right guidance. in the .js file, i'd replace all em dashes with a hyphen if they ever appeared. i built a custom product uploader, built my own php plugin which synced to local .js files and connected via rest. it was (and still is) one of the best wc product uploaders that exist, as it completely resets filterlookups only for that product, and is lightning fast because i upload it directly into the sql from json. no importers or WC rest needed. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library. it took what would be 3 hours of manual work, and congested it into a 2 minute image, to fully live product. after that, i'd export sales data, the ai was constantly learning, sales data feeding back to files, which would then teach the ai what products work, what doesn't. what copy worked, what copy didn't. all of it was local on my pc. i wasn't selling an saas. it was just something that worked for my very particular setup. i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5. copy and pasting the chats from chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that was built for me, local, syncing folder to folder, json file to json file. python scripts watching files, and .ps1 files that would follow up with other .ps1 files, which launched .js files which contained prompts for AI, and hitting the openAI API's whenever I needed the AI layer. eventually i built a terminal tool, which would allow me to run the scripts from the terminal, and i'd manually type in the slugs for which products i wanted processed. all files would sit in specific folders, and scripts would do the rest. i was so excited about that, giving my terminal app a shortcut icon and putting it onto my taskbar. that was a year ago. fast forward to now. the game has changed so much. ANYTHING and i mean anything is possible now. i've had this ******* idea for so long, to build a fully automated, self learning ecom business, that launches products end to end based on it's own research, writing, and growth, but the complexity of it previously , and being busy with life, it never got finalized. and i've finally been building the replacement for it, but it'll be able to do many other things. i'll be able to run that exact same system, except this time through a full app, with a canvas, and agent systems instead of .ps1 scripts. not to say i won't run scripts; they're an integral part of any automated workflow, but now it has superpowers. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is fully automated end to end. my brand profiles, my artwork system? i'm still using those, just for more things. now i can launch 50 brands just like it, running the same system, all in about 5 minutes. except this time, a year later, we have GPT 2.0, and seedance. which offer MUCH better usage for ecommerce than it was back 1 year ago. i also built an ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removed, and full skills and agents which practically generate the ads for me. it mixes all that into seedance videos, and posts in logos etc. now i take those image/videos, and build instagram, tiktok, facebook vids, generate descriptions, and upload them automatically. that's why it's so great building for yourself. the amount of reusability you get with it, the fact it's free forever, can never be beaten. i'm not selling anything yet. but if you're interested in seeing how i think about automation, then stay a while and listen. the tool i'm building will absolutely help you too. but i'll be honest. i'm actually quite scared to release it, solely down to how powerful it is. not many people do it like i do, and i'm finally on here to tell the world.

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  Siddiqui Qamar ֎ (@siddqamar_ai) reported 9 minutes ago

  "it's just a wrapper" 😑 might be one of the laziest criticism in tech! users don't care whether you built the infrastructure. they care whether the product solves their problem. dropbox didn't invent storage. it made storage effortless. turns out making existing technology usable is a lot more valuable than many founders want to admit.

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  Smol (@SmolMacApp) reported 9 minutes ago

  Email attachment limits aren’t small. Your files are big. There’s a difference, and the fix is usually 10 seconds, not a Dropbox link.

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  latina🌹🌺🌸 (@latinaqtvk) reported 21 minutes ago

  Who’s down to get my mage Dropbox for 5$ today 📍

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 24 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by 76 VCs before Dropbox became worth $12B. But the rejections weren't random — they revealed exactly what he needed to fix. 2007: Drew builds a file-syncing prototype. VCs say "there are already 20 companies doing this" and "users won't pay for storage." He realizes he's pitching the wrong thing. Storage isn't the product — seamless sync is. 2008: He creates a 4-minute demo video showing Dropbox "magically" syncing files across devices. No technical jargon. Just the experience. The video gets 75,000 signups overnight from a waiting list that didn't exist yet. Same product. Same founder. Completely different story. Key insight: Drew stopped explaining how Dropbox worked and started showing why people needed it. → Before: "We use block-level file synchronization across distributed systems" → After: "Your files, everywhere you need them" When he finally raised $1.2M from Sequoia, it wasn't because he built better technology. It was because he learned to sell the outcome, not the process. The rejections taught him something no accelerator could: how to position a technical product for mass adoption. What's the difference between how you explain your product internally versus how customers actually experience it?

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  Timbitz (@Timbitz01) reported 30 minutes ago

  @TodayUpdates0 @RedLineReportt They can be if they want as far as I'm concerned. But the problem is.. that's not how they are voting. It's all the mail in and absentee voting and the anytime dropbox and the counting til they win that's the problem.

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  YC Insights. (@Aiagent_s) reported 31 minutes ago

  March 23, 2018. Dropbox IPOs on NASDAQ. Surges 40%+ day one. Market cap: $12B First YC company ever to go public. Drew still owned 30%. The real lesson: both rejections were right. Both made the company better. Treat each rejection as a specific diagnosis. Then fix that specific thing.

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  Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reported 31 minutes ago

  Someone is regulating my upload to Dropbox 33 mb file suddenly the network is slow

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  𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈 𝓵𝓾𝔁💗👑 (@payprncslux) reported 31 minutes ago

  got a new phone & laptop now I can’t login to my dropbox because I don’t have my old devices .. fml

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  Thomas Oomens (@HonestDevIO) reported 32 minutes ago

  Drew Houston stepping down as Dropbox CEO. 314 comments on HN, most reading like a eulogy. Cloud storage went from 'this changes everything' to 'it's just a folder' in about a decade. The moment Google bundled Drive for free, the moat was gone. What's the modern equivalent — something we think is defensible today that'll be commoditized by 2030?

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  bayleigh | HEARD BABYLON 💙 (@eternalwarnings) reported 33 minutes ago

  sorry it's boofed quality my Dropbox account was not working so I had to ss for the time being

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 36 minutes ago

  Interviewer: design Dropbox file sync. I paused and asked what they meant by sync. Whole product? Or just the client protocol? Single user? Team shares? Offline edits? Large files? Mobile on spotty networks? End to end encryption? What’s the SLO for conflict rate and time to converge? Once we scoped it to single-user sync across devices with offline support, I wrote requirements: detect changes, upload deltas, download updates, handle conflicts, resumable transfers, and don’t melt the battery. Non-goals: shared folders and fine-grained permissions. APIs and data model next. I used a file ID stable across renames, plus per-file version and per-device cursor. Client calls: /changes?cursor=..., /upload_session/start, /upload_session/append, /upload_session/commit, /download?file_id&version, /ack?cursor. Server tables: file_metadata(file_id, user_id, path, type, size, content_hash, current_version), file_versions(file_id, version, blob_ref, created_at), device_state(device_id, user_id, last_cursor), and an append-only changelog(user_id, seq, file_id, version, op). Architecture: client has a watcher, a local state DB, and a sync loop. It batches changes, computes chunk hashes, uploads missing chunks, then commits a new version. Server side: metadata service, blob store (chunked, content-addressed), and a per-user change log that devices long-poll or stream. Push notifications help, but the cursor-based pull is the truth. Scaling: shard by user_id for metadata + changelog, store blobs in object storage, cache hot metadata, and keep uploads on pre-signed URLs so the metadata tier doesn’t become the data plane. Chunking makes big files resumable and dedupe-friendly, but it adds CPU and more metadata reads. Tradeoffs I called out: last-writer-wins is simple but loses intent; per-file version vectors are heavier but reduce false conflicts. Chunk size is a fight: 4MB reduces round trips, 1MB retries faster on bad networks. Long-polling is cheaper than WebSockets at scale but slower to react. Failure cases: client crashes mid-upload, so upload sessions must be idempotent and garbage-collected. Network ***** cause retry storms, so exponential backoff + jitter and server-side rate limits. Two devices edit offline, so create conflicted copies and surface it in the client. Silent data corruption, so verify hashes on every download and run background repair. Rename vs edit races, so operations are applied against file_id, not path, and changelog ordering is per user, not global

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  Windows Latest (@WindowsLatest) reported 37 minutes ago

  Windows 11 June 2026 update, which was supposed to make PCs faster, is crashing some PCs with BSODs, breaking OneDrive integration in File Explorer and custom folder icons, and causing other problems. We're seeing reports that Windows 11 KB5094126 is causing boot failures on some PCs, mostly HP enterprise hardware. The worst reports involve BitLocker recovery loops, Black Screen of Death/BSOD failures, Secure Boot signature errors, and error 0xc0430001. Affected models appear to include HP EliteBook 840 G10, HP ProBook 460 G11, HP Engage One Pro G2 AiO POS, HP ZBook, and some Dell Precision systems. The likely trigger is Secure Boot certificate handling + EFI partition space. On older images with a 100MB EFI partition, Windows may fail to update Boot Manager because there isn’t enough space, especially on HP systems where firmware recovery files can bloat EFI. There are also File Explorer cloud integration issues. OneDrive, and in some cases Dropbox or iCloud Drive, may stop opening from the sidebar/tray shortcut after KB5094126. Microsoft also confirms desktop.ini hardening can break custom folder icons or localized folder names from untrusted sources. KB5094126 is important, as it fixes 200+ security bugs, but be careful, as it could cause havoc on some PCs.

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  Mohit Sindhwani (@onghu) reported 37 minutes ago

  @ocornut @RichardKogelnig Actually, some times the new menu is faster and the classic menu is much slower... but then sometimes, the new menu shows 3 entries called "Loading..." and that's terrible, too! I think one of my W11 PCs has almost instant context menu - the Dropbox notes were from that one.

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  Auntieesq (@daniell0930) reported 38 minutes ago

  @MikeJShowalter The issue is the use of the data to train models not retention. Acting as if this is the same a Dropbox is disingenuous. They will not use the data to train for non-safety issues. Non-safety issue is doing some heavy lifting there. Do they have an outline of what this means?

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  brett goldstein (@thatguybg) reported 39 minutes ago

  clean but slow founder announcement video - lighting is really nice - music matches minimalist energy - glad to see the founder making this announcement but - waits WAYYY too long (til 1:24) to say what they're announcing. longest I've seen. - too much time on a problem everyone already gets - missed op animating visuals over hand gestures when explaining stuff - visuals way too small - captions are hard to read / too long - opening is a little awk - spenser sounds very nice when he says the first line, then drops the f bomb - script needs to be tightened up a ton - end kinda trails off and no CTA lots of people try this "breaking the third wall" opener where you show some authentic conversation preparing for a take, but a lot of folks mess up trying to fake it. dropbox had a bad one and this is similar. length is the killer with this. at 25k impressions, I'd be surprised if more than 100 people actually watched through to when he actually says what the product is. think this could have been a 5/5 if it was shorter, more to the point, and a really good animator worked with the script to animate things around spenser as he spoke.

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  america is an embarrassment🖕🏻🧊 (@abadlittlevibe) reported 41 minutes ago

  @DaddyAndJaxson @kdriley05 Whelp you've got the Dropbox login...do what you need to do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  JasonFrostPhoto (@rootbeerphoto) reported 42 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport What? My problem was not about camera uploads.

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  alt guy (@0xAlternateGuy) reported 43 minutes ago

  @antirez quite suspicious this happens immediately after the Dropbox CEO steps down…

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  Kuramichan (@Kuramichan7) reported 48 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I tried both on every browser AND the app on phone. It just gives me errors when I try to delete anything or upload anything. It's a problem on YOUR end, please fix it. I was able to upload stuff just a few moments ago until this issue started!

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  ray🥤 (@rayontrack) reported 48 minutes ago

  bookmarked, downloaded, screen recorded, emailed, stored in hard drive, uploaded to cloud, archived, backed up, shared via bluetooth, forwarded, copied to usb, saved offline, synced across devices, added to favourites, printed, password protected, compressed into zip, renamed, organised into folders, duplicated, exported, imported, attached to message, sent to recycle bin, restored from backup, converted to pdf, edited, highlighted, annotated, watermarked, uploaded to google drive, uploaded to dropbox, shared through airdrop, linked to notes, tagged, encrypted, burned to cd/dvd, cached, mirrored to another device, uploaded to server, queued for transfer, dragged into archive, pinned, added to reading list, stored on ssd, embedded in document, linked in spreadsheet, previewed, sent to printer queue, recovered from trash, and indexed for search.

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  Detroit Media Magazine (@detroitmediamag) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I don't know who's running this page but you need to fix the glitch that is going on with your latest update. My Dropbox app worked just fine up until your latest update which was about three or four days ago. Maybe even two days ago. I heavily rely on your services and I need access to my account ASAP. There is nothing but a black screen when I open up my Dropbox app hopefully somebody can get back to me with this problem and hopefully one of your technicians gets to work on your end.

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  Orewin1990.bsky.social (@Yoshiwi2) reported 52 minutes ago

  Okay, I think I've settled for an idea. I'll probably create an Dropbox account and upload all NSFW stuff there. Everyone who's interested in getting a link, once it's there, drop an comment down here. Won't be free tho. Around 10ish € a month

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  Arythick-Ft$🍑💦 (@feyza_esnkya) reported 55 minutes ago

  Hold my head down on the **** till I can’t breathe! 😩🍆 Full video available on Dropbox 🔥👀

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 55 minutes ago

  that they took over ran up charges did god knows what and locked me out. 900 in dropbox charges during a free trial they locked me out of they are all in big big big trouble but your handler is forcing them to lie perjue and the way he is forcing them to blow their covers wow

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  Yaroslav (@yarslav) reported 56 minutes ago

  this post has been up for just about a day > 10+ leads for long-term packaging work > almost 200 new followers > impressions up across the whole account yet I declined every single lead I've never worked on a per-project basis, always valued long-term relationships but recently I decided to make it even more exclusive I keep the number of channels i work with deliberately VERY small so each one gets my full strategic attention but no matter how selective I am, this type of work has a ceiling I can only work with so many channels at once so I started building something bigger, that is beyond my time and solves a real problem all creators face youtube has become a real industry, with creators running teams of 5, 10, 15+ people but the tools haven't caught up everyone's still spreading their production across notion, slack, drive/dropbox, frame, and more tools just to run their channels because nothing was built specifically for youtube production until now. @feedzyio