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Post by cpeterso »

res0nat0r wrote: post #102
atarian wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The opposite end of this spectrum is a company supporting far too many different properties like Yahoo did. How do you strike the right balance?

Most of it is just the HN echo chamber. Folks commenting that GCP my be shut down because it doesn't make as much money as Azure, totally oblivious to the fact that Google has billions invested in physical buildings and hardware being hammered on and built out around the world as we speak, just shows that folks here are out of the loop on this type of thing.

OTOH, Google doesn’t like to invest big money in businesses that aren’t on track to be big. From just nine months ago:

“Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by jfoster »

dragonwriter wrote: post #127
TeMPOraL wrote: post #126

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It's not noise, it's a valid market signal. So I'll side with automatically appending one such comment in every Google thread until their behavior visibly changes.

> It's not noise In terms of HN’s overt purpose, it is. > it's a valid market signal Every expression of anyone's reaction to a brand is “valid market signal” on the level that that is true of this, but that doesn't stop most of that from being noise in an HN comment thread. > So I'll side with automatically appending one such comment in every Google thread until their behavior visibly changes. Such an automated comm…

If HN is interested in the success/failure of products & services, product-market fit and such, then what Google have done to themselves is a fascinating phenomenon.

In the past, many companies have had "not great" reputations for supporting products, but surely Google have taken it to level not seen before. The fact that pretty much all of their products live in the cloud rather than being software that can continue to be used beyond the support period (ala Win98) has probably contributed a lot to that. I think the way that potential customers react to that reputation is very interesting.

We're at the point now where Google have clearly acquired this reputation and it's very likely to affect the adoption of anything they try to launch. The next phase will be Google recognising that and trying to correct it somehow. I'm keen to follow along and see how that goes.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by beauzero »

nvrspyx wrote: post #103
uponcoffee wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be UI/UX for creating//editing//managing databases and interacting with them for non-programmers. Paraphrasing the video: Like sheets, but with structured data (columns define data types with relationships) and complex actions/triggers via bots. Per your original comment, given Google's track record with customer performance//services being dead on arrival, I can imagine few here are interested in learnin…

In other words, it's an AirTable clone.

Thanks for the heads up on AirTable. Hadn't seen it before.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by karmasimida »

virgilp wrote: post #49

What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details…

I don't trust Google's commitment on maintaining this seemingly mid-size project.

So I won't invest my time considering it.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by [deleted] »

res0nat0r wrote: post #137
buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #113

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From what I can tell, there isn't a single person in this thread claiming GCP may be shut down. And if there is, it certainly isn't a meaningful number of people. What you're doing is claiming people hold an easily attackable position that they don't hold, and attacking that position. It's called strawmanning.

Not in this thread, but it has happened a couple of times in the past any time Google products / GCP have been brought up, and that I've replied to saying that it is nonsense.

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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by tomhoward »

burtonator wrote: post #35

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 use…

They kill lots of things because they build and release lots of new things. It's a feature not a bug.

(I'm not any kind of Google fanboy. Just bored of predictable takes like this.)

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Post by _mkef »

bram2w wrote: post #123

I see a lot of comments about people who are worried that Google might shutdown the service entirely and I agree with your concerns. The last months we have seen a lot of giants building their own database spreadsheet like hybrid, Google Tables, Microsoft Lists and Amazon Honeycode. Tools like these contain your most important data and you want to have freedom, security and independence as they can be an important pa…

Anyway to generate types ( like I define Box, I get a Box object ) for something like a node SDK. Strapi does this,

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by OJFord »

nvrspyx wrote: post #105
OJFord wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like Notion to me. https://notion.so

More like AirTable https://airtable.com

Maybe I'm missing something (because everyone's saying that and votes don't suggest anyone agrees with me) but having not looked at AirTable before... it also looks just like Notion?

I'm not linked to any of them, Notion's just the one I've used (not really any more), but all seem the same basic idea.

(Depending how you use Notion I suppose - you could just write paragraphs of notes and never see it as a database type thing, I didn't use it for notes like that.)

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Post by gogopuppygogo »

hiei wrote: post #23

Back in the day I would definitely be one of those early Google adopters, just to try the product. I don't bother anymore

Sam here. Now, I don’t try a Google product until some multi billion dollar startup that GV has invested into uses that product.

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Post by bram2w »

datasert wrote: post #150
bram2w wrote: post #123

I see a lot of comments about people who are worried that Google might shutdown the service entirely and I agree with your concerns. The last months we have seen a lot of giants building their own database spreadsheet like hybrid, Google Tables, Microsoft Lists and Amazon Honeycode. Tools like these contain your most important data and you want to have freedom, security and independence as they can be an important pa…

Your website design looks very nice. What css/ui framework did you make use of it?

Thanks! It does not use a css/ui framework. It is something I designed and build from scratch.
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