5 ms·

Number 293 of killed things by Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/

by zuhsetaqi 2y ago

DANmode 2y ago
Is there a Facebook/Meta version of this?
- mgiampapa 2y ago
  Most of the spaghetti against the wall MVP from meta fails to gain any traction, and if it does it becomes a feature in a main app. Post year of efficiency it might happen again, but every successful Meta app outside of FB was an acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus) I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform.
  - sureIy 2y ago
    > acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Messenger is native at Facebook. It's born on Facebook.com as a floating non-permanent window that only works when the other person is online. Wikipedia seems to confirm this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History I agree on the Portal, it's perfect to call my grandma. I dread the day it will stop working because the alternative is an iPad that is worse in nearly every way (as a tabletop VC device for grandma)
    - mgiampapa 2y ago
      Messenger is a product born of an app called Beluga, https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messenger-beluga/ https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messen.... It wasn't an app where they took the userbase, but the app was bought and the team tasked to build Messenger. (Source, I worked at FB from 2009-2016)
  - baxtr 2y ago
    Threads seems to be gaining some traction though.
    - mgiampapa 2y ago
      Threads was a bolt on feature on top of Instagram. It may eventually have the umbilical cut, but I think the only reason it has any traction is because Musk is insane. Had Musk not lit 44 Billion dollars on fire, Threads wouldn't be a thing. So yeah, a black swan in play.
      - baxtr 2y ago
        Yeah but I mean come on, there are always market dynamics outside your control. The only thing you can do as a company is to react and sometimes exploit market dynamics. That’s what Meta did with Threads. You have to give em credit for that.
        mgiampapa 2y ago
        IDK, I think of market forces as being rational actors, but yeah I guess Threads may be their first "hit" of an internal product since Facebook itself.
  - objclxt 2y ago
    > I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform. I worked on Portal and it came down to: 1. Cambridge Analytica. It is difficult to persuade people - and the media - you can be trusted to put a camera in their homes while you’re fighting a massive privacy scandal. 2. A leadership coup resulted in the project moving under Reality Labs, which never really wanted to be in the smart device business in the first place. There were a bunch of other issues, but these two basically doomed the project from the start, which is a shame as it was well received by those who actually bought it.
  - NikolaNovak 2y ago
    Pardon my ignorance, what's VC in this context? Given HN I keep reading it as a venture capital platform, but I don't think that's it :-/
    - shaan7 2y ago
      My guess would be Voice Control
    - stevesimmons 2y ago
      video calling
    - tetris11 2y ago
      Vulture Culture, the primary topic of all HN posts
    - baxtr 2y ago
      Virtual Control
    - mgiampapa 2y ago
      Video Conferencing in the context of Portal
- SOVIETIC-BOSS88 2y ago
  Of course there is, although not as crazy as goog's: https://www.killedbymeta.xyz https://www.killedbymeta.xyz
- PunchTornado 2y ago
  I was surprised when they announced they're killing workplace. A lot of businesses relied on it.
- ignoramous 2y ago
  Wait till you find out the kind of intrusive spyware that got CISO at Meta, Guy Rosen, his job.
devsda 2y ago
It's not like Google is going to stop here. So, at this point I think the site owner can go the extra mile and create a bot that keeps track of HN or reddit topics for related headlines and post the running count along with a summary of popular products that Google axed and may be some trivia too.
belter 2y ago
Right now, 60 Apps, 211 Services and 24 Hardware pieces shutdown for a total of 295. It's only Wednesday, so before the weekend can we make it to 296? "Google Business Messages in Maps and Search shutting down" - https://9to5google.com/2024/05/28/google-business-messages-shutting-down/ https://9to5google.com/2024/05/28/google-business-messages-s...
- ravetcofx 2y ago
  As a business owner thank God. That was an annoying stressful platform I disabled ages ago. Even when enabled it led to little to no leads, but created stress in response time which affected your placement and was featured prominently on the listing.
leokennis 2y ago
With this track record, I'm still in awe that there are any serious companies that use GCP. Unless you have a good migration strategy / contingency plan, you're letting your companies' bottom line being held hostage by a fickle and unfocused dog chasing every garbage truck that comes into his field of vision...
- Trufa 2y ago
  This take is completely ridiculous, Google is absolutely not to be trusted in many of this fickle experiments it does and it will hurt them, but putting GCP, a paid system with a track record that powers so many important businesses is just bending the metaphor to a point where it makes no sense. That said, that's what they get for doing this kind of thing I guess.
- tom1337 2y ago
  google selling their entire domain stuff to squarespace and the elimination of data transfer when you migrate from GCP to another provider doesn't shine a bright light on them imo. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminating-data-transfer-fees-when-migrating-off-google-cloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...
- speedgoose 2y ago
  The likelihood of Google killing BigQuery or any of their other main cloud products anytime soon without a migration plan is low enough I assume.
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]

Number 293 of killed things by Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/

DANmode 2y ago

Is there a Facebook/Meta version of this?

mgiampapa 2y ago
Most of the spaghetti against the wall MVP from meta fails to gain any traction, and if it does it becomes a feature in a main app. Post year of efficiency it might happen again, but every successful Meta app outside of FB was an acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus) I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform.
- sureIy 2y ago
  > acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Messenger is native at Facebook. It's born on Facebook.com as a floating non-permanent window that only works when the other person is online. Wikipedia seems to confirm this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History I agree on the Portal, it's perfect to call my grandma. I dread the day it will stop working because the alternative is an iPad that is worse in nearly every way (as a tabletop VC device for grandma)
  - mgiampapa 2y ago
    Messenger is a product born of an app called Beluga, https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messenger-beluga/ https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messen.... It wasn't an app where they took the userbase, but the app was bought and the team tasked to build Messenger. (Source, I worked at FB from 2009-2016)
- baxtr 2y ago
  Threads seems to be gaining some traction though.
  - mgiampapa 2y ago
    Threads was a bolt on feature on top of Instagram. It may eventually have the umbilical cut, but I think the only reason it has any traction is because Musk is insane. Had Musk not lit 44 Billion dollars on fire, Threads wouldn't be a thing. So yeah, a black swan in play.
    - baxtr 2y ago
      Yeah but I mean come on, there are always market dynamics outside your control. The only thing you can do as a company is to react and sometimes exploit market dynamics. That’s what Meta did with Threads. You have to give em credit for that.
      - mgiampapa 2y ago
        IDK, I think of market forces as being rational actors, but yeah I guess Threads may be their first "hit" of an internal product since Facebook itself.
- objclxt 2y ago
  > I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform. I worked on Portal and it came down to: 1. Cambridge Analytica. It is difficult to persuade people - and the media - you can be trusted to put a camera in their homes while you’re fighting a massive privacy scandal. 2. A leadership coup resulted in the project moving under Reality Labs, which never really wanted to be in the smart device business in the first place. There were a bunch of other issues, but these two basically doomed the project from the start, which is a shame as it was well received by those who actually bought it.
- NikolaNovak 2y ago
  Pardon my ignorance, what's VC in this context? Given HN I keep reading it as a venture capital platform, but I don't think that's it :-/
  - shaan7 2y ago
    My guess would be Voice Control
  - stevesimmons 2y ago
    video calling
  - tetris11 2y ago
    Vulture Culture, the primary topic of all HN posts
  - baxtr 2y ago
    Virtual Control
  - mgiampapa 2y ago
    Video Conferencing in the context of Portal
SOVIETIC-BOSS88 2y ago
Of course there is, although not as crazy as goog's: https://www.killedbymeta.xyz https://www.killedbymeta.xyz
PunchTornado 2y ago
I was surprised when they announced they're killing workplace. A lot of businesses relied on it.
ignoramous 2y ago
Wait till you find out the kind of intrusive spyware that got CISO at Meta, Guy Rosen, his job.

devsda 2y ago

It's not like Google is going to stop here. So, at this point I think the site owner can go the extra mile and create a bot that keeps track of HN or reddit topics for related headlines and post the running count along with a summary of popular products that Google axed and may be some trivia too.

belter 2y ago

Right now, 60 Apps, 211 Services and 24 Hardware pieces shutdown for a total of 295. It's only Wednesday, so before the weekend can we make it to 296? "Google Business Messages in Maps and Search shutting down" - https://9to5google.com/2024/05/28/google-business-messages-shutting-down/ https://9to5google.com/2024/05/28/google-business-messages-s...

ravetcofx 2y ago
As a business owner thank God. That was an annoying stressful platform I disabled ages ago. Even when enabled it led to little to no leads, but created stress in response time which affected your placement and was featured prominently on the listing.

leokennis 2y ago

With this track record, I'm still in awe that there are any serious companies that use GCP. Unless you have a good migration strategy / contingency plan, you're letting your companies' bottom line being held hostage by a fickle and unfocused dog chasing every garbage truck that comes into his field of vision...

Trufa 2y ago
This take is completely ridiculous, Google is absolutely not to be trusted in many of this fickle experiments it does and it will hurt them, but putting GCP, a paid system with a track record that powers so many important businesses is just bending the metaphor to a point where it makes no sense. That said, that's what they get for doing this kind of thing I guess.
tom1337 2y ago
google selling their entire domain stuff to squarespace and the elimination of data transfer when you migrate from GCP to another provider doesn't shine a bright light on them imo. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminating-data-transfer-fees-when-migrating-off-google-cloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...
speedgoose 2y ago
The likelihood of Google killing BigQuery or any of their other main cloud products anytime soon without a migration plan is low enough I assume.

deleted 2y ago

[deleted]