"Often an idea persistently fails until someone finally does them right and then it doesn't fail anymore."
But I very strongly think that you should know that you are walking into a minefield, rather than just blundering into it. You should know that you need to learn the landscape, try to figure out what failed, and sail your project through what may be a very narrow window hard to find by chance, as opposed to other startup core ideas where success is more about perseverance and market savvy and a lot of other things other than sailing through a very small technical window.
Also, document synchronization is a word I'd save for actually trying to synchronize documents, change tracking and merging, etc. Dropbox isn't the first to solve the problem of presenting your backed up files as a folder, a much simpler problem, they're just the first to productize it for consumers successfully. Business and open-source-technical solutions were around for a while.
But I very strongly think that you should know that you are walking into a minefield, rather than just blundering into it. You should know that you need to learn the landscape, try to figure out what failed, and sail your project through what may be a very narrow window hard to find by chance, as opposed to other startup core ideas where success is more about perseverance and market savvy and a lot of other things other than sailing through a very small technical window.
Also, document synchronization is a word I'd save for actually trying to synchronize documents, change tracking and merging, etc. Dropbox isn't the first to solve the problem of presenting your backed up files as a folder, a much simpler problem, they're just the first to productize it for consumers successfully. Business and open-source-technical solutions were around for a while.