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Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder(arstechnica.com)
13 points by mayop100 8y ago|6 comments
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by mayop100 8y ago
(author here) Yep -- note the title is "Startups I Want to Fund", not "Charities I Want to Donate To". Note that I also try to tackle some of these non-product-solvable problems through philanthropy, but that's a su
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by mayop100 8y ago
(author here) If your take here is that I'm interested in "rich-white-guy" problems, I'd encourage you to re-read the list from the perspective of emerging and frontier markets. Most of what I have listed there is actual
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by mayop100 8y ago
All of the above. Prove your team is credible and your idea is solid and the only thing holding you back is the money. Even if you don't have the capital to build the full-scale thing, you can still make a lot of progress on the cheap:
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by mayop100 8y ago
(author here) Angel investors almost never provide the bulk of the capital for a startup. We provide initial money, advise, and introductions to help raise more. So, yes, I expect the bulk of the "heavy capital" to come from insti
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by mayop100 9y ago
That's great to hear! Our design for Cloud Firestore was based on years of developer feedback. Glad we hit the mark for you : )
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by mayop100 9y ago
Clearly we have some work to do here!
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by mayop100 9y ago
All fair points and things we're working on. We do often give credits to help in situations like this, though I can't speak to specifics publicly. We're working with this developer to try to resolve the issue, and we'll
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by mayop100 9y ago
[Firebase Founder here] I’m very sorry for the surprise and frustration experienced by the poster, especially due to problems working with Firebase support. We’re embarrassed by the level of communication on our side, and we’ll be working d
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Profiling Your Firebase Realtime Database Performance(firebase.googleblog.com)
3 points by mayop100 10y ago|0 comments
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by mayop100 10y ago
Sorry!
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by mayop100 10y ago
Note to moderators: this is not a dup of the the other Cloud Functions post on the front page. The Firebase integration is an extended offering with additional features.
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by mayop100 10y ago
Cloud Functions for Firebase is not a dupe of Cloud Functions. It is an extended offering with additional features. It's also prob of more interest to HN users.
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Introducing Cloud Functions for Firebase(firebase.googleblog.com)
35 points by mayop100 10y ago|5 comments
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Welcoming Fabric to Google(firebase.googleblog.com)
362 points by mayop100 10y ago|125 comments
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Google Cloud Datastore serves over 15 trillion queries per month(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
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by mayop100 10y ago
Thanks Joe! : ) I remember that day.
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by mayop100 10y ago
Most likely, yes. Everything we have for mobile web works just as well for desktop web too.
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by mayop100 10y ago
Yes! We updated our pricing. We have fewer plan types (just 3 now), and now have a pay-as-you-go plan which is designed for maximum flexibility. This pricing is cheaper for almost every developer.
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by mayop100 10y ago
Can you email me at andrew at firebase dot com and we'll take a look?
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by mayop100 10y ago
For React Native, we're working on updating our libraries as soon as possible. I haven't worked with Horizon, so I can't provide thoughts there.
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by mayop100 10y ago
We hope you'll give the new features a try and let us know what you think!
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by mayop100 10y ago
This isn't something we support out of the box yet, but I'll definitely discuss this with the team. Thanks for the feedback!
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by mayop100 10y ago
Yeah, sorry about that! We're working to get more capacity ASAP. The response has been incredible.
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by mayop100 10y ago
(firebase founder here) I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on over the last 18 months! When I said “big things are coming” in the HN comments back when our acquisition was announced, I was talking about
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by mayop100 11y ago
We hear you! And we're working on it.
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by mayop100 11y ago
[Firebase founder here] We'd love to know what limitations you've run into and how we can do better! Send me a tweet: @startupandrew
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by mayop100 11y ago
[Firebase founder here] I want to help put your mind at ease. Google is 100% behind us. If you have specific concerns, please ping me on Twitter: @startupandrew
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by mayop100 11y ago
[Firebase founder here] Google is 100% behind us, and we're continuing to make big investments in the platform. If you have concerns, feel free to ask me questions on twitter: twitter.com/startupandrew
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by mayop100 11y ago
[Firebase founder here] We're not going anywhere. We have strong backing here at Google and are continuing to make big investments in our platform. You'll see big things from us soon. What makes us different? Firebase is very comp

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