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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by throwaways885 »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #19
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.

Area 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by lallysingh »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #21
arkitaip wrote: post #17

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?

"At Area 120, we work on 20% projects 100% of the time." It literally just has no backing by Google's corporate or business goals.

To be fair, does that mean anything?

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by burtonator »

PRESS RELEASE

Sept 22, 2021.

Google Announces that Google Tables will be sunset and all users will have to migrate away by Sept 23, 2021.

"Google Tables was a great experiment but we're migrating to Google Tracker - a better version of Google Tables designed for power users." said Dep Re. Kated, VP of Engineering at Google.

Google Tables has no migration tool or system for users to export their data angering some users.

There's no support available for people wanting to get their data off the platform and many users are upset.

"There's no support number? I can't even pay if I wanted to!" said Alice Bob Carol, a huge fan of Google Tables that is upset it's going away.

When I tried to login it told me that "suspicious behavior was detected" and locked my account. Now I can't get access to my data and there's no one I can even contact!

(this was a parody but I'm calling it now - Google products are already dead when they're launched)

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by zerkten »

flixic wrote: post #12

They could have launched yesterday, on a Monday(.com).

When you were a SaaS startup in the 2000s no one took you seriously. Now, the big players have a better chance of responding in a timely fashion.

It's going to be harder for these types of apps to get traction in less tech-centric markets. This is especially the case if the "it's part of the suite you own" argument starts to come up more frequently.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by ashtonkem »

Just1689 wrote: post #15

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.

The only way to rebuild credibility is to do the right thing repeatedly for a long period of time.

Google saying “if we get X users we won’t cancel it” both sounds like a hostage note, and doesn’t matter because we fundamentally don’t trust Google. Without that trust, it doesn’t matter why they say, since it won’t be believed.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by arkitaip »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #21
arkitaip wrote: post #17

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?

"At Area 120, we work on 20% projects 100% of the time." It literally just has no backing by Google's corporate or business goals.

Right but you can be sure that many people across several teams inside of Google have thought about creating a Airtable clone. Somehow Google greenlit this as a standalone product amongst many other options...

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by baskire »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #21
arkitaip wrote: post #17

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?

"At Area 120, we work on 20% projects 100% of the time." It literally just has no backing by Google's corporate or business goals.

Aka we will kill this at any time.
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