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by jmathai 4966 days ago
> You can evidently afford to give out almost-free accounts, can you do anything better?

Difficult question to answer as a company. As a company we felt a free account was a good start. We are also a startup.

Personally supporting the cause is another story but they're separate.

> Then scan them and throw them on Dropbox. Your service actively costs the victims money, Dropbox does not, so which helps more?

In case you're unfamiliar with the project it's an open source photo platform. We support Dropbox (and Box.com, S3, DreamObjects, CX, etc) as the place your photos get stored.

Dropbox isn't really free, for photo backup anyway. You'll hit your limits pretty quickly.

> These are people who are already financially strained by the hurricane. They may not even have a penny anymore. Did you consider this?

I have not. But it's a valid point. The subsequent penny each year could be avoided but we're doing it to verify that the person does live in an affected area. I appreciate you bringing this up and we'll see what options we have.

Apparently our database of zip codes isn't big enough though and we're adding them as they arrive.