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Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds
- possibilistic 15y agoAcademic tickets sold out, and I can't afford the full price. Skipped class to try at 7:00 PDT on the spot, oh well. Some people on Twitter are still getting tickets. I imagine that if you're in the queue and someone fails to pay for their ticket on time, you might get a chance.
- iceron 15y agoHave the exact same story. Always next year I suppose.
- sumukh1 15y agoIt wasn't actually 30 seconds. It just was timing out. I got one in the first six minutes or so. and as of 7:26 PDT there are still regular tickets left.
- vincentmac 15y agolooks to be officially sold out now. I have been trying since 7 am.
- juiceandjuice 15y agoThe silly thing was this: They had a page that said "Don't refresh this page or you will lose your spot in line" So you wait, after 6 30 second requests to the server, it times out and says "We were unable to find a ticket... please try again" So I waited, instead of crazily just refreshing the page and disregarding what they said, hoping it was true and Google had implemented some sort of queueing system (call me crazy). My very first request to the page was at 7:00:22 AM. So, obviously it wasn't actually a queuing system, especially because it was still getting {"status":"waiting"} responses for about a minute after all tickets were reported as sold out on the main page.
- mcdillon 15y agoIts definitely not sold out yet (academic tickets are gone though). As someone else mentioned it looks like they are releasing the tickets in batches. Edit: it is sold out now: https://developers.google.com/events/io/register https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
- mdwrigh2 15y agoTickets are officially sold out according to the registration page. [1] [1] https://developers.google.com/events/io/register https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
- koko775 15y agoSold out as of now. I had been trying since 7:00:00 - and still could not get a ticket. And I need one for work, damn it - I actually care about Android development. I couldn't care less about a free device.
- BHSPitMonkey 15y agoFor what it's worth, the Google Android team (as well as many other Google dev teams) host weekly "Hangouts" on Google+ where you can ask questions. They call them "Office Hours", and you can find the list here: https://developers.google.com/events/ https://developers.google.com/events/ Oh, and of course all the I/O talks will be livestreamed and then posted to YouTube.
- funkah 15y agoUh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.
- jc4p 15y agoI did, no such luck. Same as every single year I've tried. You'd think having been invited down to Google for other summer events would help but it doesn't. I'd buy a ticket that doesn't qualify you for any swag if I still get to talk to people but it seems like they don't care about that.
- alfbolide 15y agoNow both sold out...
- ceejayoz 15y agoI guess that's what happens when everyone who attends gets a free phone/tablet. Maybe registration should have a quiz requiring knowledge a developer would have.
- BHSPitMonkey 15y agoLast year, they claimed they'd be doing something like this. For some reason they backpedaled.
- zach 15y agoIt seems like the "let's try to find actual developers" faction lost convincingly. Last year, I won a ticket via Last Call for Google I/O, their Google-technology programming competition, but got no early registration access this year (yes, I was shut out this morning too). So not only did they not qualify developers for registration, Google had no interest in registering developers who already passed a recent Google-technology developer test. I think they're squeamish about restricting access too much, even by a meritocratic approach. I admit that it would be a huge PR problem if developers are angered at feeling classified as "unworthy", or if Google I/O is perceived as elitist. So I guess developers are going to be complaining about I/O registration year after year from now on.
- rbanffy 15y agoThey do that with the Google Developer Days. Interesting things happen then - sometimes, the attendees who pass the test are not sufficient to fill up the event and they have to start the ones who failed it.
- shrub 15y agoI took 4 spins waiting, but I got my ticket at 16 minutes past the hour.
- jonmarkgo 15y agoIt sold out in 30 minutes, not 30 seconds.
- ColMustard 15y agoI'm not sure this is the definition of 'first come, first served', I hit the register button the first time around 07:00:06, watching painstakingly as every spinner eventually return "No tickets found". What a slap in the face.
- emwa 15y agoI also didn't get a ticket even though I was on the registration page at 7.00 on the spot. After four retries the tickets had sold out.
- huherto 15y agoThey should probably allow one day for people to request the tickets and then assign them at random.
- colinloretz 15y agoThis is how Burning Man did their tickets this year. It didn't work out very well for them but I think it would work well for something like this. You'd get a better distribution of devs and people just looking to get "free" devices.
- throwaway1979 15y agoYou would think this is an obvious fix ... but you wouldn't get the hype, now would you? I didn't get a ticket this year on purpose. 900 is a bit too much for my blood (I pay for it out of pocket and don't want to resell the swag). I went last year and it was both fun and sad. The concert, robots and devices made me go to geek heaven. The sad part was that it felt a lot of folks were there just for the swag. I also went to pycon last year and had an amazing time. The production values were far less but I felt that almost every single person in the room was a craftsman (craftsperson?). In terms of contacts, both events were a bust ... I don't think I socialized properly .. didn't make any lasting contacts in either places. This year, I'm saving my cash ... have already watched a lot of pycon talks on video. Will do the same for I/O
- ek 15y agoThe problem I have with this is that Burning Man and the festivals are general-audience events. I'm okay with not getting tickets for Coachella because there are only so many of them and everyone wants to go. Such is life. I'm not okay with attending a low-quality I/O because bad people were able to purchase tickets. My proposed fix was make people code something simple in JS and then run an automated it before allowing registration. That way, dumb people try to register, and by the time they can Google a solution to FizzBuzz and copy-paste it, all the developers have already registered.
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- eternalmatt 15y agoHardly an official news release.
- jfoutz 15y agoIs it actually sold out, or did you just time out when requesting a ticket? It's not really clear from the "checking for available tickets" polling. also, academic tickets are clearly marked as sold out, but the main tickets aren't.
- ascendant 15y agoIf there's such huge demand, you'd think that maybe they'd move it somewhere larger where they can satisfy more of that demand? If you want developers to get and stay excited about your platform, making it impossible to come to your conference doesn't help.
- justinchen 15y agoI hope they revoke this guy's ticket: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Google-IO-2012-GA-Adult-Ticket-/230768084849?pt=US_Tickets_all_in_one&hash=item35bad98771#ht_500wt_1182 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Google-IO-2012-GA-Adult-Ticket-/2307...
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- fourspace 15y agoYou're assuming he has a ticket.
- justinchen 15y agoIn the description he says the ticket is in his name.
- adestefan 15y agoWhy do you want them to revoke the ticket? Is it because he acquired a limited resource and is now profiting from the demand? Is it because you want to go, but don't want to spend $2000?
- zdw 15y ago"Lets create a conference where the swag is easily resellable items worth more than the conference admission. Nobody will figure out how to arbitrage that..." I've heard great things about I/O, but the device giveaways seem to always turn registration into a circus...
- abraham 15y agoI think this is one of the reasons the price doubled this year.
- Jun8 15y agoAnd things are getting worse by the year! The registration lottery system they did was frustrating but I see no other way of handling it. But they definitely need to rethink the swag thing, or I/O will become irrelevant soon (if not already so).
- tonfa 15y agoAre there any number about the percentage of attendees only interested in the gadgets and not in the talks/workshops? I remember people complain every year during registration, but then during the conf it never surfaces.
- rahim 15y agoI think that might be in part because the people that attend solely for the gadgets probably only show up to pick up the freebies, so you aren't likely to run into them at the talks. In my group of friends alone, I know of at least 10 people (non-developers with no interest to start) that got tickets last year, went up to I/O as a SF vacation, stopped by Moscone to pick up the freebies, then sold them off to pay for the trip and then some. While I, as a developer with an Android app published, didn't manage to get tickets last year nor this year.
- donw 15y agoTo be honest, that was really annoying. I've become a minimalist in regards to personal property, and the last thing I need is another gadget -- I'm already busily cutting down on what I own, to the point where my fiancee is getting a little annoyed. It's just more cognitive load to manage that much stuff. Is a Galaxy Tab bundled in with the admission that much of a draw for people, or is this more a way to offload inventory?
- cr4zy 15y agoIt didn't sell out at 7. The POST to the ticket URL kept timing out until 7:03. The timeout would cause a redirect to the no ticket page. After 7:03 the POST hung until they showed a reserved ticket at 7:07 (for me).
- weej 15y agoLooks like I'll be attempting to watch the live streams, again, this year.
- cwassoc99 15y agoWe were in our campus server room and got 3 of them. Connection speed didn't matter, it was very random, but we're shocked we got 3 tickets given the demand: https://plus.google.com/108430678066988816876/posts/AAuhFJKvs18 https://plus.google.com/108430678066988816876/posts/AAuhFJKv...
- danellis 15y agoI got a ticket, but every time I try to pay for it I get "We couldn't complete your purchase because of a technical issue." Anyone else having similar issues? (It did tell me "declined" once, but I called my bank's fraud department and had them remove the block.)
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- foresterh 15y agoThey should not give away anything this year, so those that didn't get a ticket will get a similar streaming experience and those that got one just for swag will get nothing for their "investment" and I got a ticket, so I'm not saying this out of spite...
- nabilt 15y agoAcademic tickets sold out fast, but genreal tickets were available for about 20-30 minutes. Last year google had another round of tickets so be on the lookout.
- jellomaster 15y agodevsite.registration.checkWaitListStatus = function (a) { var b = "/events/register/waitlist/status/" + devsite.registration.waitListKey + "/"; $.get(b, function (b) { var d = b.status; "waiting" == d ? a.setTimeout(devsite.registration.checkWaitListStatus, 25E3 + 1E4 * Math.random(), a) : devsite.location.href = "fulfilled" == d ? b.details_page : "/events/io/register/noticket" }).error(function () { devsite.location.href = "/events/io/register/noticket" }) };
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- runjake 15y agoThe article the submitter links to says it sold out in 20 minutes, not 30 seconds.
- eslaught 15y agoThe real number was 20 minutes: https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/iyc4arLjidR https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/iyc4arLj...
- joejohnson 15y agoAccording to Vic Gundrota, it took "just over 20 minutes" for the conference to sell out. https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/iyc4arLjidR https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/iyc4...
- djenryte 15y agoI think there was a heavy geographical element involved. All my programming friends from OC got in, some hitting the site as late as 7:04. Those in SF and LA were all locked out even after constant refreshes.
- 00joe 15y agoI hope you all get chromebooks, hahaha.
- raghus 15y ago30 seconds? Vic Gundotra's post on the page says Google I/O has officially sold out! It took just a bit over 20 minutes!
- Teef 15y agoIt looks more like it was lottery than anything else. If you clicked on it at the right time and got lucky in a 30 minute window. I have been to a number of them since I went to the first one (part of the android challenge before there was an android phone) I have really enjoy the conference every time I have gone. This year I mainly wanted to get some time in with the Go group and reconnecting with friends I have made over the years. Look like time to start looking for another conference with lots of web startup. Anything going on in the UK?
- estel 15y agoHopefully the London GUG will host an IO Extended this year.
- CCs 15y agoIt was NOT a first come first served: https://plus.google.com/112824291715893708090/posts/KVGsrug3ZhM https://plus.google.com/112824291715893708090/posts/KVGsrug3...