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Ask HN: Can I trust Google products as a freelancer?
As a freelancer I'm not sure I trust Google products anymore. That is trust that what I invest my efforts in today will still be supported in five years time by Google. Therefore, I have checked out all my Google docs and setup my own Nextcloud. I will also be more reluctant to get too heavily invested in their APIs.
Do others feel the same?
- danso 7y agoWhat makes you think Google Docs, or any of the other most popular Google Cloud APIs, would not be supported in the next five years?
- kenniskrag 7y agoWhat you describe is the "vendor lock-in". If you only store some files on gDrive you do not have a lock-in. But If you built a product on top of their api then you have to invest something if you want to move to a different vendor. That's why I usually try to stay on simple vServer with some open source software or at least some bought software.