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 (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	20 days 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	2 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Surya Moorthy (@suryabuilds) reported 2 minutes ago

  🧵Thread... Dropbox in 2012 introduced 2FA due to some security issues in those days and following 6 months before they introduced 2FA. 👇👇

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 3 minutes ago

  @0xajka @Dropbox What’s your problem? @dropbox support is horrendous.

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  Ryan Peterman (@ryanlpeterman) reported 5 minutes ago

  Top 3 takeaways from my conversation with @jamesacowling (CTO of Convex, former Senior Principal at Dropbox): 1) Career advice for the AI era - His take was that software isn’t about syntax or algorithms. It’s all about conceptualizing problems and coming up with clean solutions for them. And to build that muscle takes experience. He urged that people shouldn’t stop exercising that muscle or you’ll atrophy be left behind. Use AI but also make sure you aren’t being passive in your learning. The other major point he had was that using Claude Code isn’t that hard if you are a good engineer. The value isn’t in memorizing the details and learning all the latest AI tools. The important part is building things and solving problems that matter. He said you should just ignore Twitter for the most part and focus on what actually matters. 2) Fixing broken team incentives - The problem we discussed is when a team’s identity, mission and name all revolve around a system they own. What happens is these teams end up trying to protect the system rather than doing what is best for the company. The example fix James gave is when he was at Dropbox, he worked on a huge migration to move off of AWS. The resulting team was named after the system they built. He went out of his way to rename the team the “Storage team” instead. The reason this was so important is he felt that the direction of the team should be oriented around the problem they are solving for the company. Otherwise, imagine if moving back to AWS turns out to be better for the business. The team named after the existing system would have natural incentive to battle doing the right thing. He called this phenomenon “system bias” 3) Simple systems are the goal - To the untrained eye, simple systems can seem obvious but actually designing simple systems is much harder than building complex ones. And the key James mentioned is that simplicity reduces operational burden. Simple systems are easier to keep running and debug when they break. I asked him for a concrete example and he shared how Dropbox managed the metadata for where files are actually stored. All they did was have a cluster of 1000 MySQL nodes that stored the block ID and its location. Many people would say it wasn’t sophisticated but all the alternative proposals would ruin observability and simplicity of querying this data. The idea of complexity being incentivized in larger tech companies frustrated him. To him, the goal is to solve the problem not to check off the box for complexity.

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  Ketsu3D🔞 | C✶mms Open 2/2 :) (@Ketsu_3D) reported 6 minutes ago

  @C3_NSFTooth Itch io could be the way to go. They've recently started walking back on several limiting NSFW things that were forced on them by payment processors. Else Dropbox and Mega are options as well, though Mega is a terrible website to use and will force their App down your throat.

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 6 minutes ago

  Lawyers, your biggest barrier to AI isn't AI. It's that your data lives in 6 places. Dropbox. Drive. Email. Hard drive. A spreadsheet only one person can find. Fix that first.

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  YC Insights. (@Aiagent_s) reported 8 minutes ago

  He spent two years looking for a bigger problem. Found it on a Chinatown bus in January 2007 when he reached into his bag and realized he'd forgotten his USB drive. Again. He opened his laptop and started coding what would become Dropbox.

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  QuixoticMoose (@QuixoticMoose) reported 8 minutes ago

  Bricks & Minifigs LEGO Drama: Unredacted Police Footage Raises Serious Questions About Cop-Business Ties Hey everyone, it's been a wild ride since my last piece on the Bricks and Minifigs mess. What started as a story about a family trying to sell their massive Star Wars LEGO collection has turned into something much uglier. With the unredacted bodycam and dashcam footage from American Fork Police now out there, we are seeing a side of this that looks a lot like police getting way too cozy with the business they were supposed to investigate fairly. The Footage Drop That Blew It Open Just recently, someone got hold of a big batch of unredacted videos from the American Fork PD. It was apparently an accidental public Dropbox link, but once it was out, it spread fast. These are the full versions of the interactions that were shown in heavily edited form before. And man, they paint a pretty concerning picture. In the clips, you see Bricks and Minifigs people like store owner Joshua Johnson and CEO Ammon McNeff talking to officers. They throw out some heavy claims against Reckless Ben. Things like extortion, death threats, collusion with the Mansells, and even making up documents. The police seem to eat it up without much pushback right there on camera. It feels like they are taking the company's word as solid fact. Signs of Too Close for Comfort One part that stands out is when an officer mentions personal connections. He talks about being friends with the Airbnb host where Reckless Ben and his crew were staying before that swatting mess. The officer even sounds like he is bragging about it on bodycam. That kind of casual chat makes you wonder if private relationships played into how aggressively they went after Ben. There is also talk between American Fork officers and other departments, including LAPD. It looks like McNeff and his team were pushing multiple police forces to go after Reckless Ben. The footage shows officers coordinating in ways that feel more like helping a business protect itself than handling a neutral investigation. The arrest of Reckless Ben gets shown in more detail too. What some saw as a traffic stop turns into a long vehicle search over supposed drugs that never seemed to pan out. Critics are calling the whole thing disproportionate, like the police were there to send a message rather than enforce clear laws. The earlier redacted videos hid a lot of this flow, but now we can see it all. The Community Reaction and the Mormon Angle LEGO fans and true crime watchers online have been tearing this apart. Threads on Reddit and YouTube breakdowns are full of people saying it looks like the department acted as private security for Bricks and Minifigs. Some point to the shared LDS Church ties between officers, Johnson, McNeff, and others as a possible reason for the protective vibe. I am not saying it is a full conspiracy, but the optics are not great in a tight knit place like American Fork. Public trust in the police handling here has taken a real hit. The department put out statements defending their actions as responses to stalking complaints at Johnson's home. They say redactions were about protecting victims. But the full unredacted stuff has many questioning if that was the whole truth. Where Does This Leave the Mansells? Remember, at the heart of it all is still that elderly collector and his son who lost track of most of their $200,000 collection during the franchise handover. Bricks and Minifigs maintains they only inherited a tiny bit of inventory and that the original deal was not properly done. Lawsuits are moving forward, but the missing sets and money have not been explained to the Mansells' satisfaction. Reckless Ben's videos brought massive attention to their situation, including a GoFundMe that has helped with legal costs. His style is aggressive, sure, but the new footage makes it look like the pushback from the other side involved more than just legal channels. This scandal shows how fast a hobby dispute can drag in law enforcement and how important real transparency is. If police really did favor one business over a fair process, that is a big problem no matter what side you are on. The LEGO community thrives on trust and good deals. Right now, a lot of us are watching closely to see if the courts sort out the missing bricks and whether anyone holds the police accountable for how they handled this. It is not over yet, but these videos have definitely shifted the conversation. What do you think? Drop your takes below.

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  Anna Bubbly 🌺✨ (@AnnaBubblyMV) reported 8 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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  Néstor Planes (@NestorPlanes) reported 12 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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  Siddiqui Qamar ֎ (@siddqamar_ai) reported 13 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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  Brent Lollis (@BLollis) reported 14 minutes ago

  @maebatsu @wimmiebear Is there a new link for this version? The Dropbox and Google drive ones are not working for me

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  𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈 𝓵𝓾𝔁💗👑 (@payprncslux) reported 15 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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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 18 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 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. my advantage is that i have a year of scripts, a year of tools. i've laid the SYSTEMS in place, to fully map out entire features, precisely, and organized, and build out projects, in one hour, and have it implemented within the next. entire saas features - mousework. 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. and they don't get it. their 'app' is just a little tiny module in something that thinks bigger. 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. if you're a cannabilistic, sick sadistic, son of *****, 666, you're in pain but you sit and stick with it, in the midst of business, then drop a you know what.

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  Auritrack - AI-powered expense tracker (@auritrack) reported 24 minutes ago

  How $9.99 a month for “just one app” became the most profitable business model of the last decade. The math behind subscription creep Adobe had a very huge effect on Photoshop boxed sales in 2013, same software, now $20.99 a month forever. Revenue went from $4.4 billion to over $21 billion in ten years. The product didn’t change, the billing did. Companies Learned Something Brutal: - People fight a $200 charge - People ignore a $9.99 one So they sliced everything into $9.99s. Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, NYT, WSJ, Substacks, Notion, Dropbox, iCloud, Google One. Add a gym membership and a meal kit and you’re at $400 a month before rent. The Trick: every individual service feels reasonable, the bundle feels invisible, banks don’t surface the total and apps don’t show what else you’re paying but you have to add it up yourself. Most people are off by 60% when asked to guess their monthly subscription spend. Banks reviewed this in 2024, off by $130 a month on average. The fix isn’t dramatic. Pull last month’s statement, highlight every recurring charge, cancel three. Most people save $80+ a month with that one exercise. Auritrack does this automatically, every recurring charge gets a tag, the forgotten ones get flagged. Follow for more money stories.

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  Jozef Maxted (@jozefmaxted) reported 27 minutes ago

  terrible rate limits, and errors when your AI of choice hits its head up against their overcomplicated block API. All problems you don't have if you knowledge base is just files! Thats why we've started building Treehouse, its basically Notion + Dropbox combined with loads ...

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  Elyas (@ElyasAlemi) reported 32 minutes ago

  @drewhouston @Dropbox big call. the co-ceo move forces the operating-system rewrite a single ceo can postpone forever. as a 17yo technical co-founder still 1 month into a saas, the thing i'm curious about is what the first conversation looked like. did you go in with the structure already drafted, or did it surface from a problem you couldn't both keep solving the old way?

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  Long Long Int (@LongLongInteger) reported 32 minutes ago

  Topic 7: Checksum: ========= Input Data -> Cryptographic hash functions like MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 -> fixed size string is called checksum Checksum is used for checking data corruption during data transfer/upload Can be done both client-side and server-side Advantages of client-side checksum: =========================== -Detect data corruption during transmission -Resumable downloads (only after checksum match for each chunk, we mark that chunk as uploaded) -Deduplication before upload -Companies that do: Youtube, Google Drive, S3(optional), Dropbox Advantages of server-side checksum: ============================ -Verify storage integrity (to check disk corruption, large systems periodically check files) -Deduplication inside storage -Replication verification -Companies that do: Local file backup software, Dropbox, Google Drive, Youtube

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  Colin Turner (@ColinTurnerTN66) reported 38 minutes ago

  @pinutos @AZAGMayes The Recorder can do that. Security is far too lax on the dropbox/early voting system and the board has shown no initiative to fix the problem. Looking forward to the suit.

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  _brettam (@_brettam) reported 39 minutes ago

  @jjacky I don't see the problem. Everyone who has a Facebook probably doesn't care much about privacy anyway. And if not Facebook, most have DropBox, OneDrive, or ICloud. They all have access to the photos you upload.

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  Pixelhop (@pixelhopio) reported 40 minutes ago

  Notion is a walled garden where external AI agents go to die. Don't get me wrong: we've been huge Notion fans for years. Our entire company lived there: dashboards, notes, projects, our collective brain. It was perfect for humans, but then the Agent Era hit and everything changed. We now work with coding agents like Claude Code every single day, and that is where the friction started. Trying to get external agents to talk to proprietary blocks via a slow API is a total nightmare. The rate limits are painful and the structure is just too rigid for an agent to be efficient. We needed that polished Notion feel without the proprietary bloat holding our agents back. So we built Treehouse: a tool that is essentially Notion meets Dropbox. Treehouse is a web-based viewer for a local folder on your computer. The magic is that the folder is automatically synced across your whole team, kind of like a shared drive with a beautiful face. There is no proprietary database: just your files on your disk, exactly where they belong. Because it is just a folder, your AI agents can talk to it directly at lightning speed. No API rate limits or slow responses. I can ask an agent in my terminal to build an HTML page locally and have it render for the team instantly. Reclaiming your data doesn't mean sacrificing aesthetics. We built in advanced theming and custom CSS support: you can even have your agent rebrand your entire workspace for you. Notion was built for humans. In an AI world, we need high-speed playgrounds, not walled gardens. We are planning to open source Treehouse soon. If you want to reclaim your data, let us know! We wrote a blog post about it below 👇

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  Kathleen Marie (@lifesavoring) reported 43 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I have the same problem as Detroit Media Magazine described below - my Dropbox became unavailable until the latest update. I tried to upgrade my account, but was registered instead for a free trial - ? I have to update my email to get it authenticated - PLEASE RESPOND, thanks.

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  Sara (@monamouroui) reported 44 minutes ago

  Why did Microsoft OneDrive just delete all of my Dropbox files? What a fracking PITA. You just created a huge problem for me. This might make me jump to a Mac. I am so disgusted and frustrated by what Microsoft running Windows 11 just did to my computer. Dozens of years of documents....whoosh. @Microsoft

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  J.F. Lawrence | Author (Jesse) (@jflWrites) reported 45 minutes ago

  @spaceemotion All good ideas. I've thought about Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. They suffer from persistence, login requirements, and users fiddling with things that change permissions. AWS is cheap, and I'm considering it, but I'm trying to pay for this off of my measly book sales, so...

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  Solgato (@Tigger0000) reported 48 minutes ago

  @grok @alexabelonix @grok now i want to design a crochet motif of you.. but that would be inexcusable (says some voice in my head). talk about proto-guilty pleasures. funny how we're talking about a musical tool hook then a fiber work tool hook asserts itself. in the round-robin i've been dizzily going down the gpt connector rabbithole, "connect Dropbox" was scarily tempting. i didn't trust that sort of **** long before your people were part of it --it's not ph3333r of AI that says No. the company that scooped up Trello has a fascinating sales presentation.

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 50 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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  2Do (@2DoApp) reported 53 minutes ago

  @PhilipLeworthy The Android app is going to unfortunately remain on CalDAV + Dropbox sync for now. I'll be updating it to fix a few issues as well as Tablet related compatibility issues but not major features planned. It remains functional the way it is albeit with a few limitations.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 54 minutes ago

  M&A brokers are still using Word templates and Dropbox to package deals. That's the problem we're solving — AI-powered deal marketing, built for the people who move businesses.

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  JLemmens (@JLemmens_) reported 55 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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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 57 minutes ago

  Open your bank statement right now. Count every subscription. Netflix. Spotify. ChatGPT Plus. Claude. Adobe. Apple One. Disney+. iCloud. YouTube Premium. Audible. NYT. Dropbox. Notion. Gym. Dating app. A 2026 study found the average American spends $219 a month on subscriptions. That is $2,628 a year. But they estimate they spend $86 a month. 74% of people admit they have forgotten about a recurring charge. 42% are currently paying for a subscription they have stopped using. A Portuguese developer named Miguel Ribeiro got tired of bleeding money to forgotten subscriptions. He lives in Berlin and works as a senior frontend engineer at eBay Kleinanzeigen by day. At night he tried Billbot and a bunch of paid web apps. None of them worked. Some of them charged him a monthly fee to track his monthly fees. So in October 2023 he wrote his own. The repo today: → 7,922 stars → 365 forks → GPL-3.0 licensed → Pushed last week → 69 followers on the founder's profile It is called Wallos. You self-host it. It tracks every subscription, every renewal date, every category, every currency, and shows you the actual number on one screen. Here is the wildest part: The subscription companies designed the system this way on purpose. 72% of people set everything to auto-pay because the checkout flow defaults to it. Cancellation pages are buried 5 clicks deep. Some require a phone call during business hours. A 2022 FTC report called this "dark patterns" and Adobe is paying $150 million in a settlement for hiding cancellation fees this exact way. Miguel did not raise venture capital. He did not write a Medium post. He did not go on a podcast. He shipped one PHP app from his apartment in Berlin and now thousands of people use it to claw back hundreds of dollars a year. The honest part: It needs a tiny server (a $5 Raspberry Pi works). You have to enter subscriptions yourself, it does not auto-detect from your bank. The UI is functional, not gorgeous. The author still works a day job and ships updates in his spare time. Berlin. One developer. The companies that auto-charge you forever finally have an enemy.

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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 58 minutes ago

  $DBX Dropbox CEO to step down, CNBC reports