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		vimda 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' This is the Dropbox problem. People are willing to pay for convenience, and tech folks tend to underestimate how much convenience comes from seemingly simple solutions

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direwolf20 10 days ago [–]

this is convenience for tech folks and the price isn't a few bucks a month but 1000x.

It's like if Dropbox was an rsync server (no app) and it cost $10,000 a month for 1TB of space. Think it would still take off?

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