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by kkowalczyk 4864 days ago
It's such a misleading title. It's nothing like Dropbox.

We're talking about 60 lines of python for the "server" and 90 lines of python for the "client".

That's a weekend hack, not a Dropbox clone.

It happened so many times in the past, that I'm patenting a method of getting on first page of HN:

1. Write something

2. Call it a dropbox clone

3. Congratulations, apparently no-one bothers to check if that "something" does anything even remotely similar to dropbox:

- does it have a GUI client with a highly polished interface?

- does it have an installer?

- does it have conflict resolution to reconcile changes made on different computers?

- does it try to not corrupt files if download/upload fails in the middle?

- is it self-contained or do you first have to install, say, python interpeter?

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It's not even rsync yet alone dropbox!