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What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of
by virgilp 6y ago
What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it.
Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details, because it auto-scrolls to the next image & there's no way to stop this behavior.
- Navarr 6y agoOnce you've signed in, they offer this video: https://youtu.be/tedTuOvS8Dw https://youtu.be/tedTuOvS8Dw
- OJFord 6y agoIt sounds like Notion to me. https://notion.so https://notion.so
- gowld 6y agoIt cool to create a "Area 120" space for new ideas. But what's the point of funding underfunded clones of old ideas instead of aquiring them? What is the most successful or longest lived Area 120 product?
- nvrspyx 6y agoMore like AirTable https://airtable.com https://airtable.com
- OJFord 6y agoMaybe I'm missing something (because everyone's saying that and votes don't suggest anyone agrees with me) but having not looked at AirTable before... it also looks just like Notion? I'm not linked to any of them, Notion's just the one I've used (not really any more), but all seem the same basic idea. (Depending how you use Notion I suppose - you could just write paragraphs of notes and never see it as a database type thing, I didn't use it for notes like that.)
- nvrspyx 6y agoNotion has some AirTable-like functionality, but it's more focused on being a knowledge base rather than a database like AirTable and Google Tables. There's definitely some overlap with the two. This Google project is just more akin to AirTable than Notion.
- uponcoffee 6y agoIt seems to be UI/UX for creating//editing//managing databases and interacting with them for non-programmers. Paraphrasing the video: Like sheets, but with structured data (columns define data types with relationships) and complex actions/triggers via bots. Per your original comment, given Google's track record with customer performance//services being dead on arrival, I can imagine few here are interested in learning//migrating their workflow just to be locked out or migrating away not long after. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ I'd link to the myriad of hn//twitter//medium posts used to get customer support through bad press, but I'm on mobile, I'll leave that as an exercise to the user.
- nvrspyx 6y agoIn other words, it's an AirTable clone.
- uponcoffee 6y agoAppears so, I wasn't aware of air table until reading the other comments. Pretty much seals the grave on this one. Low effort clone from a company notorious for no customer support and killing services vs the original that specializes in this... easy choice
- sjg007 6y agoI thought it was an Asana clone?
- uponcoffee 6y agoAsana is project management, kanban on steroids.
- Topgamer7 6y agoI thought it was a clone of Monday
- beauzero 6y agoThanks for the heads up on AirTable. Hadn't seen it before.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoWhy should I invest any time in a product which will diappear? Any time I spent looking into it, beyond just looking for ideas for my own products, seems like a waste of my time which I'll never get back.
- skipants 6y agoHa -- that's the exact same thought I had. It's also coupled with the fear that if I _do_ like the product I'll just be even more disappointed.
- karmasimida 6y agoI don't trust Google's commitment on maintaining this seemingly mid-size project. So I won't invest my time considering it.
- runawaybottle 6y agoMaybe we should just start doing what Google does, copy their products and all use that instead.