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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by stephanerangaya »

easton wrote: post #4

This isn't part of GSuite and therefore isn't subject to the same SLA. I wonder if the pricing will stick like this forever or if it will eventually be bundled, since Microsoft already includes something like this in 365 (and many companies probably already pay someone else for this type of functionality, like Airtable). I'd be a little scared of paying for something in the Google incubator, knowing how they cull stu…

Good point, yeah

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Post by 0xfaded »

wrren wrote: post #3

I'd be extremely wary of adopting any new Google product given their tendency to abandon things that don't achieve immediate success.

This comment seems to top any HN post regarding a google product launch so reliably that perhaps there should be a bot which automatically pins it to the top.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by Just1689 »

What a useful app. Reminds me of Airtable in some ways. I enjoy a good flexible table app any day.

We're all tired of the obligatory "I wonder how long before Google deprecates this...;)" but I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product... 1M monthly users? 3M? ...xM? or that when a project actually reaches that point.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by brainless »

It seems like some folks at Google just woke up to Airtable and launched a counter MVP. I do not really expect more from Google any more. When there are tough competitors, why would people use something else which does not even look quite finished?

Google has reach (read search monopoly), so I guess that is an angle.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by arkitaip »

Interesting that they would launch this as a totally separate product and not as a part of G Suite.

Do you think they want to create some distance between them and the rest of Google because ofd Google's reputation of shutting down products? Or maybe they want to launch a product outside the usual bureaucracy?

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

easton wrote: post #4

This isn't part of GSuite and therefore isn't subject to the same SLA. I wonder if the pricing will stick like this forever or if it will eventually be bundled, since Microsoft already includes something like this in 365 (and many companies probably already pay someone else for this type of functionality, like Airtable). I'd be a little scared of paying for something in the Google incubator, knowing how they cull stu…

"The Google incubator" is particularly accurate here, if you look at the tags on the blog: "Area 120". This is an app developed by one of their "let these people write random stuff" groups: https://area120.google.com/

To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120.

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