[nwienert]

Or Dropbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I think my main point is it doesn’t matter if other things do it alright already. There’s a lot of energy behind putting together the whole package in the crypto area.

I’m not saying it will end up working, but I am saying that any critique that tries to say it won’t work because disparate things X, Y and Z exist already is inherently unconvincing because it never comes down to whether some features exist in some form already. It’s always the final packaging, branding, and all sorts of vague appeals and ideals that give energy to something. And crypto, for all the leeches, certainly also has a lot of energy, funding, and smart people, and more than enough of appeals and ideals.

[mmastrac]

Web3 is a long way from either Dropbox or iPods. My point is that all of this stuff is done better and with much more polish in databases and existing tech. Perhaps one day web3 will come up with a killer app, but everything so far has been just enriching someone with a vested interest.