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0 pointstechntoke5y ago0 comments

They don't compete though. Google offers 17+GB free with email, office suite, unlimited photos, drive and Voice with a free number for unlimited calling and texting. Dropbox has much stricter bandwidth limits as well.

For $9.99 you get all that plus 2TB storage with Google One. Dropbox has a minimum for of 3 users for their business plan, but with 1 user on G Suite for $12/mo I get unlimited storage and all the Goodies I mentioned before.

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ci5er5y ago· 3 in thread

I'm learning to believe that there are various sub-sects of the HN crowd. The people who would rather pay $3/month to host a slow-ass VPS, and those where $10/month delta, as long as their work-flow is optimized is a "win".

In fact, I think that drives a lot of these "what is better" debates in threads here. Some people go "Google Drive is better, because I get 2TB/month for a flat-fee that bundles the other services" (I do that plan too - I just subscribe to everything - to match the client's work flow. Where it really sucks is that I commercially subscribe to 3 (4?) commercial video conferencing systems).

I am not going to choose to save $5 when it stands in the way of me making $100. I find that thinking impoverishing, and time-wasting, and frankly stupid.

Even if I have to pay a designer $1000 to remake my slides after the content is settled for a client trying to pay me $15K, so that they can raise $2.5M, I'll gladly pay it! That doesn't seem to be the mindset here? (Or maybe I'm just coming across the people that shill for Vultr over Digital Ocean (or God-forbid - AWS!) - instead of focused on velocity of earnings. Maybe I just come across the wrong posts)

But, that's me - and I suspect I am not the majority here.

count5y ago

I think the real split is between 'actually making money using these tools' (you) and 'personal projects but want to make money' (lots of others) (discounting the 'not in the USA' here, which is, for sure also an issue - $10 in USA for a dev is nothing, but might be a huge deal for a dev in another country).

When you cost your business hundreds of $k/yr, who cares about $5-100? Thats less than the cost of the free coffee and snacks!

cesarb5y ago

> $10 in USA for a dev is nothing, but might be a huge deal for a dev in another country

Not to mention that, USD 10 is a variable amount of money. Today, USD 10 is 25% more expensive than it was last year (and a couple of months ago, it was almost 50% more expensive than it was last year). And there's also the hassle of paying in a foreign currency (and not having common payment methods like boleto bancário available), and the annoying tendency of transactions from another country being blocked as suspicious by the credit card provider.

pjmlp5y ago

I am with you, also feel that HN has kind of turned into Slashdot of the yearly days.

On a website that started to discuss business ideas and how to turn them into profitable endeavours, it is a bit surreal that every time someone brings commercial products out, one gets endless posts about free beer alternatives and how such software is doing a disservice to the community.

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