[Blahah]

Dropbox is good at what they do. What you're describing is already served by an ecosystem of sites, which can be connected with, for example, If This Then That (http://ifttt.com) . And you can host static sites from Dropbox in various ways: http://www.maketecheasier.com/4-ways-to-host-your-website-on....

[bane]

Well yeah, of course all this exists somewhere else. And it's making those folks money hosting it, not DB.

The problem is that DB caps your outgoing bandwidth so hosting even moderately large number of users will kill your site dead pretty quick.

It's obvious that people want to use it for these use cases, but DB hasn't been able to execute on that demand.

[evanmoran]

This is true, static hosting is served by the ecosystem -- yet they are buying companies very quickly right now with less obvious user value. Why wouldn't they buy one of these and see if they can grow it into something?