Google's API documentation are generally abysmal. I have learnt not to spend too much time on the docs but rather look at the samples and source code. But there are times like when beta testing the APIs when there are no samples / source code and you mostly sitting ducks unless someone from google helps you out.
“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”
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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/
That's a terrible idea. Bitcoin is difficult to use for both buyer and seller, has high transaction costs, and is associated in the minds of many customers with illegal transactions.
All that is secondary though to the extreme lack of stability of value, which is pretty important in a medium of exchange. You might as well be telling him to accept tulips.
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#74If you build something on someone else's API, you can get fucked in a million ways. They might shut down the API (Google Reader), take away the functionality you relied on (Google Calendar), limit it (Twitter) or deprecate the version you're using, forcing you to do development work to keep working at the worst possible time for you (IOS). They might also decide that your product is very good and build a version of i…
Authentication via third parties are not an inherently Bad Thing. Mozilla Persona shows how third party authentication can be done, without risk of user base hijacking,
While it's true that Mozilla can't maintain a list of what services their users are using, there are still security implications to using Persona. Mozilla (or anyone who with their private key) can still enable access any user account on any Persona enabled site.
Persona is perfect for blogs, but using it for a service people may be paying for, or handles any private user information (postal address, private messages or posts on a forum etc) is a bad idea.
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#75Oh if its for commercial purpose please stop developing Apps for Google. Usage will increase for a certain period of time, and then it drops constantly...
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#76We 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.
<<Google on the orher can do whatever they want
The funny thing is: That was Apple, about 3 years ago.
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#77If 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…
I think your HN title would suggest otherwise.
I also think there are development enhancements you could make to your application to work around these problems. Maybe you won't get any response from Google until you have 2M users? What are you going to do about it? There have been some excellent suggestions in the comments for working around this (longer waits before retries, premium level retries etc). Do these first, increase user base, then contact Google when it's less easy for them to ignore you.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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.
<<Google on the orher can do whatever they want The funny thing is: That was Apple, about 3 years ago.
...and it was Microsoft about... never. I remember people complaining a about Microsoft around MS-DOS 3.1.
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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.
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.
I am already doing that, because of that only I am able to survive 2000 users. I want to expand and publicize my app and give users an excellent experience.
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#80If 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.
Seriously? I accept money using Paypal though 8 percent fee (4% receiving, and 4% conversion) really sucks. Also, it has mandatory daily auto-transfer to your bank which also sucks for things as refunds ETC.
But you can definitely accept money using premium/business acounts. Premium account requires only your PAN.