Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

Hi there,<p>Razvan (author) here. I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox. It currently works on Windows. Haven&#x27;t finished the website yet, just the app.<p>A little background on the app: I wanted to backup my external drives to Dropbox for a while and tried using symlinks but those don&#x27;t work for that. If you remove the external drive, all your files will get deleted from Dropbox. Also, you need to restart Dropbox if you make changes to the folders on the external drive. Otherwise, they won&#x27;t be synced.<p>I talked to my twin brother about this and he suggested building an app for that. Having a background in Windows internals we decided to go ahead and build it. We wanted to solve that in an elegant and effortless way, something even our parents (who are not tech savvy) could use.<p>So here is Boxifier, a Windows app which installs on top of Dropbox and lets you right click any folder and sync it to Dropbox.<p>I would really appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks, Razvan

<p><pre><code> Boxifier is a third party application. Some people are not comfortable giving third party applications access to their Dropbox account. That’s why when building Boxifier we made an effort to make it work without needing access to your Dropbox account. This way you can try Boxifier with no worries. We also sleep better at night because of that. </code></pre> Thank you! I&#x27;ll give it a shot just for that reason alone.

This ia good effort might even force the hand of Dropbox to add a similar feature to the official client.<p>I need a solution to use all the 1TB of Dropbox space available without having to have 1TB of space on my laptop and without having to resort to use the web interface.

Something that has always annoyed me about Dropbox. But honestly I&#x27;m not going to bother given that I have to pay in order to sync more than 3 folders. Specially when I can accomplish this with a bit of hackery and symlinks.<p>Nice product though.

In before acquired by Dropbox :)<p>Great job! This is a much feature in Dropbox. Would be awesome if it worked on Macs.

Just curious, why only 30 minutes to try out the premium features?

How is this different from creating symlinks?

Is there something like this for OneDrive?

It already exists on OS X[1], and it also works with Google Drive and a bunch of other cloud storage providers.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.zibity.com/macdropany.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zibity.com&#x2F;macdropany.html</a>