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by i-use-nixos-btw 885 days ago
Constructive criticism.

I would like to see much, much more in a demo. Probably around 20-30 minutes.

What was shown in the demo video was seemingly the functionality of Dropbox, shown working with one file manager and one OS.

I know it is more than that. I’ve checked your docs. You have branching models. You have cross OS support. You have a lot going on.

But that demo video really put me off. It doesn’t demonstrate anything that seems particularly useful to me, especially on the main selling point: version control. It spends most of the time showing automatic file sync, which (although not easy to do) is a basic feature of so many cloud storage platforms that it doesn’t have the wow factor these days. (It’s also a feature I find annoying and would want to disable, but it seems to be core to your approach so meh)

I know not everyone will jump immediately to the demo video to see it, but it’s what I did, and honestly… I’d scratch it and do a full intro video and put resources into doing it right.

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Thanks for the feedback! Point taken.

The intro video is really just scratching the surface, you're right. We'll post more in-depth videos soon.