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“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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yes it is sad, I have worked days and nights for this and I am not being able to reach more users because of the quota on the apps.

What is the current quota? Where is it documented?

Current quota is 1m requests/day and that is enough to handle just 2000 users/day, because I sync gmail tasks every minute.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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I think Google has such a strong consumer following now that it isn't as interested in keeping the developers happy. We were early adopters so got a good amount of attention at the start but that certainly seems to have waned with Google's popularity.

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If you work on something for 3-4 months, that's $30-40K at valley rates. To do this for free with the intention to enhance the product offering of a megacorp basically sends the message that you don't value your time. Of course said megacorp is not going to give you the time of day. They start to pay attention when the dollar value of your account is large enough. Start charging for your app. Then you can say, "I wan…

It is difficult to charge money from India as Individuals, paypal does not accept money for India nowadays and it is near to impossible to attach a international payment gateway. I thought of donation as well but again paypal issue.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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We also receive very little love from Google. They are notorious for not helping developers, which is tragic.

yes it is sad, I have worked days and nights for this and I am not being able to reach more users because of the quota on the apps.

I notice you're syncing tasks every minute. Perhaps a short-term workaround is to sync every 2 or every 5 minutes while you wait for the quota to increase?

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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I put in an API quota bump for Google Calendar a few months back and it was silently accepted after 2-3 days.

Based on my experience, each team individually deals with quotas for their API. Google Tasks is not really a dedicated product so it probably has little to no permanent team behind it. This is probably the cause for the slow response time on quota requests.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes it is sad, I have worked days and nights for this and I am not being able to reach more users because of the quota on the apps.

I notice you're syncing tasks every minute. Perhaps a short-term workaround is to sync every 2 or every 5 minutes while you wait for the quota to increase?

That can be done but it will affect user experience right ? Better will be if I stop further registrations for the app.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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If you work on something for 3-4 months, that's $30-40K at valley rates. To do this for free with the intention to enhance the product offering of a megacorp basically sends the message that you don't value your time. Of course said megacorp is not going to give you the time of day. They start to pay attention when the dollar value of your account is large enough. Start charging for your app. Then you can say, "I wan…

It is difficult to charge money from India as Individuals, paypal does not accept money for India nowadays and it is near to impossible to attach a international payment gateway. I thought of donation as well but again paypal issue.

You should check out Bitcoin as a payment option, it was pretty much designed for your use case: http://www.weusecoins.com/en/

BitPay as a payment processor in particular: https://bitpay.com/

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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We also receive very little love from Google. They are notorious for not helping developers, which is tragic.

Google does give a lot of love to developers. AFAIK, they have dedicated developer teams for developer relations; just look at the quality of their API documentations and support. This one looks like a operations issue. Perhaps they do not have a corresponding relations team focused on operations support.

> Google does give a lot of love to developers.

That simply isn't true. They have support for some very specific areas which they consider of specific importance (e.g. Android), for the rest you're left to rot.

> Perhaps they do not have a corresponding relations team focused on operations support.

This has nothing to do with ops, it's a developer needing a raise in his apps requests quota.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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I think Google has such a strong consumer following now that it isn't as interested in keeping the developers happy. We were early adopters so got a good amount of attention at the start but that certainly seems to have waned with Google's popularity.

It just doesn't make sense. Without developers all the innovation happens elsewhere, and at some point the consumers will switch. Google cannot keep up with innovation internally, and they're not attracting new talent with such a hostile developer stance.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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If you work on something for 3-4 months, that's $30-40K at valley rates. To do this for free with the intention to enhance the product offering of a megacorp basically sends the message that you don't value your time. Of course said megacorp is not going to give you the time of day. They start to pay attention when the dollar value of your account is large enough. Start charging for your app. Then you can say, "I wan…

It is difficult to charge money from India as Individuals, paypal does not accept money for India nowadays and it is near to impossible to attach a international payment gateway. I thought of donation as well but again paypal issue.

If I'm not wrong, adding details like your PAN and bank account etc should allow you to use pay-pal from india.
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