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I really don't understand why google released their api with a 1k/day limit. I could see this being a problem for a weekend hackathon. How many people are going

I really don't understand why google released their api with a 1k/day limit. I could see this being a problem for a weekend hackathon. How many people are going to devote time to a real project reliant on any api with such a low api limit... my guess, not many. TL/DR- 89n requested a limit bump to 1m requests/day but only got 10k/day. Facebook's open graph seems to have a 100m/day/app limit. (http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-Facebook-Open-Graph-API-rate-limit http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-Facebook-Open-Graph-API-rate-...)

antninja 15y ago
They do the same with Google App Engine. They pretend their cloud platform scale but, because of quotas, a GAE app can't scale much. Technically it can, but not without Google's permission. And they have no contractual obligation to let their customers' apps grow, it's legally just a favor they might offer to whichever customer they fancy. So this Google+ quota isn't surprising, coming from Google.