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Kinda feels like the main thing google launches is waiting lists.
by IanCal 3y ago
Kinda feels like the main thing google launches is waiting lists.
- ttul 3y agoAnd my main worry is: are they just going to cancel the new thing that my company invested six months and $250,000 of engineering time integrating with…
- noahl 3y agoNo, not for GCP stuff. I don't know of a single GCP product that's been shut down, although I could be missing something. But their track record for GCP is, I think, what you would want a cloud provider's record to be. (I should mention that I work for GCP. But this is just based on my own memory.)
- snek_case 3y agoProbably doesn't matter that much because it's just hardware. Presumably not that hard to run your software on another intel box with nvidia GPUs. There's also plenty of demand for nvidia GPUs right now, still no guarantee given it's Google, but it would be hard not to make money with this.
- ukuina 3y agoThis is the way.
- smrtinsert 3y agoQuote of the year
- crazysim 3y agoThe Gmail waiting list was one of the most legendary waiting lists. Anyone else remember inviting people to Google Docs?
- stOneskull 3y agoi sold quite a few gmail invites for 99c each on ebay. it was fun.
- cloudking 3y agoYep, launching things slowly and testing them before releasing wide. Seems like a good practice when you're introducing a new technology to the world.
- tazjin 3y agoIt also traps them in a continual cycle of missing the hype wave, and then shutting down the unpopular product a few years later.
- IanCal 3y agoI get it, but the launches are always about what you can now do then slowly followed with "some partners can register interest". For example for palm/bard this was my experience: "Hey we have this amazing LLM!" "Great, given you are a company can I pay you money above your costs for this service?" "No but you can register for updates about when the wait-list will open" They announced cool features for Google docs as well that I can't use. Some of the things I've seen announced were maybe a year ago and still nothing. Just a wait-list or less.
- cloudking 3y agoSure, but look at Bard it was on wait-list for what 3 months? Now it's available in 180 countries... for free. Not everything gets launched because sometimes they find out in that testing period that they got it wrong.
- m3kw9 3y agoWait lists and shut downs
- coffeebeqn 3y agoGmail was a waitlist or invite only for many years. And that must’ve been their most successful product launch since search
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoThat was nearly 20 years ago though. That's an eternity in tech years. Google and the industry have changed since then.