Totally understand your doubts.
I mainly made this program to solve a tiny issue that got annoying and repetitive, so I asked myself, "Can I automate this?"
1. Since I mainly use Windows (for school software to run), I cannot simply do this, considering our school blocks any 3rd part app that isn't in their whitelist.
2. Sure, it doesn't _replace_ a USB drive, but it makes it a lot easier, which can _lessen_ the use of a USB drive.
3. Again, I really just made this for myself and a couple of friends at my high school so we can share projects without too much hassle. I just wanted to share it with the world because maybe someone else has the same dumb problem, which could help them too.
It's not meant to be a business, just a tool. I'll call that a win if it saves one other person from emailing a file to themselves.
replySorry, I might have edited that /s in too late! This is actually one of the early comments from the Dropbox launch thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224
replyI was gonna link to the same thing!
Text looked familiar
replyI’d guess that the overlap of people who email themselves files also use Gmail…which would then also just have Google Drive. Why not use that?
replyFWIW i think you ruined it by editing that “/s” in
replyI thought about it for a bit, but I’m worried the author might not recognize this copypasta and try to answer it on its face value.
reply(It is, of course, the famous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224)
Haha. I guess I had heard the story of dropbox, why not ftp, but I guess this was the story!
replyI guess it is funny to me that SVN/CVS was there in 2007 since I think git wasn't even invented at the time but now new people won't even know what SVN/CVS are, I only got to know them because I wanted to download a specific folder of github and some stackoverflow comment mentioned svn
Apparently, the first version of Git was released in 2005, but I’m not sure a lot of people have heard about it before GitHub has been launched in 2008.
replyWild times! (I was 10, my preferred source control system was “eh I have a backup somewhere I think”.)
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replywe've all been there
replyThat made my morning.
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