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

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Post by VMG »

winter_blue wrote: post #45
anuaitt wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the information VMG.

You should beware that converting bitcoins into INR is going to prove difficult in India. I have not yet heard of a single bitcoin exchange for Indian (INR) users. Correct me if I am wrong.

that's what BitPay.com is for - pays out in local currency

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

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Post by atirip »

davidjgraph wrote: post #44

We developed a product specifically for Google Drive using their JavaScript client. We were hoping to make it commercial but had to abandon those plans due to 3 bugs that have been present since around the beginning of 2013. Also, there's no open bug tracker. The developer relations people are very friendly, but when I ask where to report bugs I'm told "just tell me". So every 2 months I've reported the same 3 bugs i…

"I love what Google are doing" - but of course you do, it is called Stockholm Syndrome. Irony aside, i'm trully amazed of Google. See, the smallest misstep Apple makes, everybody jump to hate Apple. Google on the orher can do whatever they want and nada, everybody jump in to alleviate the evelasting, unconditional love, no matter what. Remarkable achievement, hat off, in todays world.

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

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Post by thejbf »

anuaitt wrote: post #35
fharper1961 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible to pay Google and receive a higher quota?

There is a communication gap between them and the developers, the problem is there is no real person to talk and sort things out.

I'm a DevRel person working for Google's Apps APIs, please contact me.

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

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Post by davidjgraph »

atirip wrote: post #53
davidjgraph wrote: post #44

We developed a product specifically for Google Drive using their JavaScript client. We were hoping to make it commercial but had to abandon those plans due to 3 bugs that have been present since around the beginning of 2013. Also, there's no open bug tracker. The developer relations people are very friendly, but when I ask where to report bugs I'm told "just tell me". So every 2 months I've reported the same 3 bugs i…

"I love what Google are doing" - but of course you do, it is called Stockholm Syndrome. Irony aside, i'm trully amazed of Google. See, the smallest misstep Apple makes, everybody jump to hate Apple. Google on the orher can do whatever they want and nada, everybody jump in to alleviate the evelasting, unconditional love, no matter what. Remarkable achievement, hat off, in todays world.

Don't patronise me. I've been developing commercially for 20 years now, I'm not exactly wet behind the ears, nor easily persuaded by anything but facts.

I've evaluated what they are doing on their technical merit. If you want me to give you a detailed explanation of why I prefer their system, it'd probably take about an hour, so it's a bit much as a HN comment.

I genuinely think their direction with the API I'm using is the way forward, I've been waiting for someone to have the balls to do it for some time.

Any anyway, I must have missed the outpouring of love Google received for closing Reader, for not having a native Google Linux kernel OS Drive client, and so on.

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

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Post by Schweigi »

anuaitt wrote: post #4
ew wrote: post #2

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'm not sure if it works with the Google API's but usually e.g. with the GitHub API you can send the ETag in your GET request header and if nothing changed (304) it does not count to the quota. It wouldn't solve all the problems but could at least help to stay inside the quota.

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

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Post by hrjet »

anuaitt wrote: post #16
_b8r0 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

An alternative: For non-premium users sync every 5 minutes.

For premium users sync every minute.

Use Indian payment gateways if possible, though Paypal works fine too.

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

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Post by anuaitt »

If anyone in Google is reading this please don't mistake me, I know Google is a innovative company and through this post I don't want to give any negative impression about Google.

I want Gmail Tasks to be world recognized and people to use it more frequently. I see that there are very less standalone apps developed for Tasks, this is a small effort by me to make Google Tasks better and more usable.

If you find value in what I am doing and see it innovative enough, please help.

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to build an app on google.

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

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Post by hahainternet »

kishor_gurtu wrote: post #47

You're probably better off creating a product for a more professionally managed marketplace - like the Office365 marketplace - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179924.aspx . This lets you develop apps on Exchange (similar to your tasks app). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj220499(EXCHG.80).a... and http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Create-t... Office365 customers (all of them…

> (I'm not shilling for Microsoft. I have no financial interests here).

Paid or unpaid, this post is pretty much shilling.

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

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Post by hahainternet »

oakaz wrote: post #48

Google is terrible at support in general. I've been reporting a blogspot website stealing my documents and impersonating me for making money by ads for over two years. I sent my passport two times, and some friends also sent a report for me. Result? not even a verification e-mail. They simply host website that attacks my intellectual property, my name and give me no piece of shit.

Identity fraud is a criminal matter. Talk to the police. If they have stolen copyrighted material, file a DMCA.
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