Mount Dropbox as a network drive. Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, onedrive, box and more.
Makes a 1TB account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the primary client to only sync a portion of your Dropbox. Then use ExpanDrive to offload the rest and access it as needed.
On the product page, please list your price more clearly. It was non-trivial to figure out what your product actually cost. A walkthrough of my thoughts:
1. He said product, so it's probly not free. I wonder how much it costs?
2. Scrolls through the whole page I don't see a breakdown of price. Hmmmm
3. ctrl-f "$" Ahh, I see it says upgrade pricing is $24.99. Wait, does it cost that much, or is that a special "upgrade only" price?
4. looks around on the page more Ahhh, there's a store link, I hope it lists the price there!
5. Ok, so the price is $50 for a single-user license. Why was that so hard to find?
I don't mean to be rude with these remarks; your product seems perfectly relevant and it's awesome if it works as you say. But as a customer, I found that a bit confusing and I thought you as the business owner may want some feedback about one particular users experience.
Fair. I want people to download and not think immediately about price. It's not cheap. I see your point and you might be right. But it's not an entirely uncommon/bad pattern. I had a/b tested it a while back.
But how do you measure that it doesn't hurt your profit? Conversion rate may go up, but if those not buying because they felt lured with a lower price, through negative mouth-to-mouth advertising, make fewer new potential customers visit your site in a few months time, profit could eventually go down.
Negative mouth to mouth because you had to go to the store to see the price options? There are two, fwiw. Lots of people pick the lifetime upgrade option.
Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful piece of software, and for continually developing it.
Thank you for plugging this! Exactly what I was looking for. Agree with the other poster that your pricing should be more prominent; I thought it was $25 at first glance which (naturally) makes one disappointed to see it's actually $50, though it seems well worth it.
Is Yosemite currently supported? Would it make sense to support iCloud Drive too?
ExpanDrive is nice (and a quite appropriate plug), but it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot.
The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slow even in countries with cheap high bandwidth downstream. It's still just FTP with a nicely integrated interface.
The ideal would be something that keeps the files locally until they have been synced in the background, and then removes the local copies whilst still allowing you to access them in the same way as if they were local copies. I.e., placing them in your cloud drive is instant, even though it actually takes a while for them to be transferred.
No, that's not an easy problem to solve, but anyone who does solve it will get my money.
(Really awesome would be if it intelligently kept local copies available based on usage and available space. The bottom line is: not having to consciously worry about where to put the files.)
http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive
Mount Dropbox as a network drive. Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, onedrive, box and more.
Makes a 1TB account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the primary client to only sync a portion of your Dropbox. Then use ExpanDrive to offload the rest and access it as needed.