Ask HN: Anyone tired of Googl just punting any products of theirs at any time?

15 points by lakotasapa 2 years ago | 8 comments

It pains me so much to build up content then to have them.just shit it down or like domains drop kick it to Squarespace? It's so hard to commit when they seem to kill off projects that doesn't garnish a billion users. I finally got my in-laws to use Googl+ then bam! Closed. So utterly disappointing to no end.

jjgreen 2 years ago |

They've been doing it forever: https://killedbygoogle.com/

aosaigh 2 years ago | |

I'm still grieving Sparrow, even though it's over 10 years since it was killed.

poetril 2 years ago |

Last year I finally made the push to de-google as much as possible. I dropped gmail/google calendar in exchange for ProtonMail. Replaced google photos/drive with Backblaze (there is a manual step now). Moved all my domains from Google Domains to Cloudflare (thankfully). The only tether I still have to Google is my YouTube account. Other than that I can say my life has been entirely de-coupled from Google. I simply do not trust Google anymore. Between their history of randomly killing projects and awful consumer support its just not worth it.

CM30 2 years ago |

Yeah, I am. And based on how things like the Google Graveyard have become a meme, and how people are generally very skeptical of using new products from Alphabet due to the chance of a quick shut down, it seems a lot of others are too.

Heck, about half the reason people avoided Stadia was because they realised the service would shut down and leave them high and dry.

solardev 2 years ago | |

> Avoided Stadia

Give GeForce Now a try!

8b16380d 2 years ago |

A tale as old as time. Self host your content if you can, or have backups of your content. The pain of self-hosting the majority of one's data is less and less as the years tick by. As I get older, this becomes more apparent. Imagine the state of things in 30 years. What services will still be around? Hopefully most, but that's not a guarantee.

lakotasapa 2 years ago | |

Yeah..putting together a homelab server. But also have to give outside access to families and if that wasn't bad enough, have to find adequate apps to serve then maintain then need to teach everyone how to on some exotic app. Someone should make a turkey homelab server with all the goodies ready to go. IE file server, doc manager, social media akin to FB or G+, CRM, video/photo manager/streamer etc. Currently running like 40 containers and ever growing.

PaulHoule 2 years ago |

Just say no is what I say to Google products.