alt Hacker NewsGood ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.
Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.
Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.
Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.
Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
There is a canonical hacker news post about Dropbox being useless and a pointless idea at one point :)