Tables: Tracking work for teams

Post by InitialLastName » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #203

toomuchtodo wrote: post #148

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Could Google not commit to open sourcing projects in a maintainable way (public repos, k8s support versus just Borg, which no one has access to) and guarantee data export functionality as part of Takeout? This would significantly derisk attempting to use a fledgling Google service for end users. Definitely not a resourcing issue, entirely an organizational culture and philosophy decision to be made.

I don't work at Google but my understanding is there are a lot of proprietary, closed-source internal APIs that make this difficult-bordering-impossible.

Post by bachmeier » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

sixdimensional wrote: post #263

Just to be fair, Microsoft also recently re-launched a tuned-up version of Sharepoint Lists, now just called "Lists" [1] which is in the same space. It took something like AirTable to wake the sleeping giants, that people wanted a low-code tabular data editor and storage engine, that wasn't really a spreadsheet. You know.. like FileMaker or MS Access. I guess this goes to show something - I have thought for many, man…

Post by what_ever » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

lazyasciiart wrote: post #253

what_ever wrote: post #247

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Linking to killedbygoogle.com where more than half of things are not actually kiled by Google is not a good argument. I agree that products getting killed by Google is a concern and a few comment accurately point out and add to discussions while most of the others just keep repeating like a meme. Very rarely the discussion feels like a discussion. OP brought up another point about Google being a 20 year old company s…

Oh no they used an ad hominem so you responded with an irrelevant whataboutism.

Post by luka-birsa » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

ebiester wrote: post #114

johnwheeler wrote: post #90

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They should release the financials of the app and let companies bid to acquire the app and its userbase. Smaller companies get a shot at growing the business, users stay happy(er than they would otherwise) and google gets a shot at acquiring the original idea back should it succeed under the hands of people who give a damn. Unfortunately, such a program would likely be sunset after a year.

More importantly, this is all released on Google's internal infrastructure. Any such work would require moving to the external infrastructure, and the cost of it likely wouldn't make sense. The real issue is this: Why am I paying 10 dollars/user/month for this when G suite Business is 12? I could see using this for the organization, but not at that cost.

Post by janlukacs » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

wavepruner wrote: post #276

janlukacs wrote: post #267

A couple of years ago Asana stole our slogan, now Google. For the record, https://www.paymoapp.com (work management) was the first to use Work better, together. Really annoying that they don't do at least a bit of research.

This is a basic combinations of words from the English language. You do not own it.