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by AceJohnny2 854 days ago
The hilarious thing is that was what Dropbox was meant to solve.

Like Drew Houston's demos to Y Combinator was copying a file to a given folder on one computer... and seeing it show up in the corresponding folder on another computer. HN comments at the time were dismissing, like "whatever, I can do that with rsync"

And then cloud storage became a thing.