Dropbox Capture

Interestingly, Dropbox has a second product in this space called &quot;Screen Capture&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;content-collaboration&#x2F;screen-capture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;content-collaboration&#x2F;scree...</a><p>There are others as well: Loom, GetCloudApp, Gyazo and a few more.<p>I have actually built one myself [1] ScreenBud.com, which is not ready for Show HN yet, but we already have &gt;15000 users of our Chrome extension [2].<p>I am quite curious to hear from others about what you are looking for in these products. As for me, my main use cases are:<p><pre><code> 1. In-browser screenshots with visual annotations (parts of emails, docs, or anything else that&#x27;s not easy to share or pinpoint with a URL) 2. Design feedback </code></pre> [1] I hope the selfish plug is OK! [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;screenbud-%C2%B7-capture-edit&#x2F;gcjpddnhdopbpimmngmgfhhimnbenjhl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;screenbud-%C2%B7-c...</a> -- (it works on Firefox as well, but the publishing process for Firefox is a bit more involved)

If you are on a Mac you can do screen recording for free with a non-beta app that comes with the OS: QuickTime Player (assuming Dropbox will eventually charge for their product).

If you&#x27;re tired of Dropbox&#x27;s &quot;be the kitchen sink&quot; mission statement, I&#x27;ve been using SyncThing[1] and it seems like a great replacement for Dropbox.<p>On Mac, be sure to install the cask version, which runs as an app: brew install --cask syncthing<p>A pretty good, basic blog post on how to set it up (but again, use the cask version instead): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;routley.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;syncthing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;routley.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;syncthing&#x2F;</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;</a>

I love Dropbox! Except everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files. That&#x27;s just bloat to me.<p>So I gave them a chance on this, scrolled to trough the page, but for the life of me could not figure out what it is that they&#x27;re selling here.<p>Also, as the messag was unclear, my other thought was that this might be third-party thing, since the style of the page (especially the header fonts) seem so much different from the dropbox that I know.

Uuuugh... another half attempt by Dropbox to add value beyond file storage &amp; sync. Half attempt is the key here... b&#x2F;c the idea has value several iterations down the road if they can OCR&#x2F;parse&#x2F;infer intent from the screenshots.

Here is exhibit A on a company that has exhausted its strategy but is compelled by the nature of Capital to seek additional growth. I remember seeing many years ago an anecdote of Steve Jobs telling Drew Houston to sell to Apple because Dropbox was just a feature, not a company (it was connoting that Jobs was wrong about that). Although Drew was right not to sell at that time it looks like Jobs was also right.

&gt; To get started, visit dropbox.com&#x2F;capture on your Windows or macOS computer to download the app.<p>So, no Linux client. Dropbox is one of the few companies which had a proper linux client for syncing files. It is a pity that they are now releasing products which do not have linux support.

Don&#x27;t understand. What&#x27;s wrong with just pasting a screenshot or recording into Slack or your PM tool of choice?<p>Adding Dropbox is just adding another layer of auth, sharing permissions, storage quotas, etc.... ugh

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getcloudapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getcloudapp.com</a> has been doing this for ages + supports custom domains.

Every time I hear about Dropbox I think of VisiCalc [0].<p>They (Dropbox) made sharing data so easy and gave it a native feel, at least on MacOS. And eventually OSes rolled out the same features (iCloud, OneDrive), the same way VisiCalc was steamrolled by other spreadsheet software.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;VisiCalc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;VisiCalc</a>

Dropbox has lost its way. This has been true for awhile.<p>I remember when Dropbox was great; it did one thing extremely well.<p>Now it does a bunch of things, none of them well.<p>This may not end well.

I&#x27;m all for MVP&#x27;s, and this does say BETA, but I can&#x27;t get it to work and it looks like it&#x27;s riddled with bugs.<p>* It&#x27;s not signed on Mac, so you have to jump through a hoop or two to install it<p>* When I click my account it flashes something and then shows my account list again<p>* Feedback requires a &quot;Canny&quot; account (no thanks)

It&#x27;s <i>baffling</i> that there is no example or demo or even a video of what it&#x27;d look like.

It makes you login to Dropbox. I get they want to expand the user base, but that&#x27;s sort of odd in that you wouldn&#x27;t need that for the functionality shown in the explainer video.<p>I imagine someone will run it through a disassembler soon and upload a nice standalone tool.

I wish they would stop and fix energy usage of the basic sync client. The &quot;Dropbox Web Helper&quot; process sits there nibbling away at my battery even when the machine is otherwise idle.

Who gives a hoot about Dropbox’s constant product extensions? Remember IBM’s copier?

Windows&#x2F;macOS only. On Linux, it shows a download button that doesn&#x27;t work.

It looks nifty but why is sign in required to use it?

Reminds me of SnagIt