We created Droplr with one goal: to make sharing anything fast, easy, simple, and beautiful. And heavy file storage and syncing tools just aren’t cutting it. But with today’s companies and the proliferation of remote distributed teams, simply “getting something to someone” has become a huge pain. You grab a file, walk over to someone’s desk, and hand it to them. It used to be easy to share things in an entirely physical office environment. This is the problem we designed Droplr to solve. But when you need to share 50 things a day and collaborate with a remote team, the shortcomings of those solutions really become obvious. And why? If you need to send maybe one or two files a day, sure, solutions like Dropbox can work. It’s still really hard to just get stuff from point A to point B. This comic is always a funny reminder for us of why we created Droplr. But we believe there are smarter ways to use the cloud to help people solve the problems they’re really having and collaborate freely. There will always be a need to store files online, sync it between your various devices, and backup important information. “The cloud” aka, “the internet” is here to stay. Remember Outlook shared folders? Simply putting those in the cloud doesn’t fix the broken model. Imagine hundreds of people sharing one single file cabinet in the middle of your office. As a collaboration tool, Dropbox works really well with a small team of people. Eventually, there’s a larger supply of ‘online storage’ than demand.Īdditionally, Dropbox’s cloud deficiencies have exposed the real problems in larger organizations. As technology moves forward, high speed networks become more ubiquitous, and hardware continually gets cheaper. Similar to what happened to physical hard drives, it’s now a race to the bottom of the price floor, and in many cases it’s already reached the business graveyard of “free”. Some of the largest companies in the world are offering online file storage as a free add-on to their platforms. Online storage has become a commodity and other companies and apps like Dropbox are all offering the same storage solution. People were still trying to use shared network drives, FTP solutions, etc… to store their files, and it was a mess.īut today, safely storing your files in the cloud isn’t exactly a pressing problem anymore. The Problem with Dropboxĭropbox has created a great solution for storing your files in the cloud and syncing them across devices. But when you take a closer look you’ll find two very different companies solving two very different problems. We both do “file sharing” and we both have “drop” in our name. One of the questions we hear over and over when we describe Droplr is “you mean like Dropbox?” It makes sense.
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