Why GCP is losing to AWS
- Laid off from GOOG earlier this year - Changed my Linkedin status to CEO of stealth startup - Immediatelly approached by AWS startup relations offering 100k credits in AWS, got it in the account a week afterwards - 2 months later approached by GCP startup relations, when they found out I didn't raise captial they ghosted me - Built a prototype with AWS - Raised captial - GCP be chasing - lol
Cause the developer experience is trash.
Dang that's great to hear about the AWS experience. I hope they are finding profit by bootstrapping startups in that way. Seems like a good way for everyone to win if AWS can essentially "bet" on a bunch of micro-size startups and hope they scale big.
GCP feels very coupled with the gmail account. Which I think is not great approach if you want your whole infrastructure on there
Yes! Moved from UK to Aus recently and Google support had me change countries and close my UK billing account for Google One. That immediately shut down all my GCP services which it turns out were also tied to pay.google.com. Miserable experience. I’ve had zero downtime for four years and then this. Never using GCP again.
wow that is so ghetto lol
Nothing from MS/azure?
they prolly be like : here’s $300 expires in 1mo
lol fuck azure, genuinely a garbage platform. it takes SEVEN forms / pages to launch an ec2 instance equivalent. its like doing a windows installation setup with the amount of pages you need to click through.
I started a company in 2014. Azure gave the most credits (100k) but the dev experience was super janky and it expired in one year. AWS gave 30k expiring in two years and also had a building (loft?) where I could go debug issues with an architect for free. GCP talked down to me and never gave me shit. Went with AWS. The business ended up getting acquired a year later (<1m… nothing great), spending 2k/month on AWS in perpetuity and is still running so they priced everything just right. Worked out for me and them both.
Google has a hard time building any product people want to use, maybe the only exception is google maps, everything else have been acquisitions. Dunno if it is their engineers or their product folks
PMs man. They fucking suck over there. I was on a team that built a product for 2 years, while the PMs were all positive and hyped, but just weeks before launch they said the customer feedback was dull and killed the product. All 2 years, we were working closely with the same PMs. Like WTF were they doing all that time, in every weekly/biweekly sync meetings. 8 engineers paid for 2 years for nothing. Morale went down the drain and people stopped caring and most great engineers left in a year. Zero accountability, it's frustrating.
yeah, also their designers are not great, only will recently google maps start giving the options for the navigation to says "in the next corner turn right" instead of "in 34 yards turn right" which is hilarious.
G not only has lazy engineers but also lazy customer relationship and sales. You will feel this more when you ask for technical support on GCP.
Google don't know what they're doing. I don't know what it is but everything they make seems like it's built for kids, all those primary colours and the layout, but despite it looks like it was made for kids it's still a pain in the ass to use. I use GCP a bit for some speech 2 text stuff but only because of the free credits.
What did you build? Share your startup if you don't mind.
how much of the credit do u use per mo? u started building right away and not after talking to GCP relations, or not till after?
GCP didn't even set up a call, they asked on chat "how much did you raise? it will help us prepare a competitive offer compared to what you got from AWS" and after I said none I didn't hear back from them
how much of the aws credit do u use a mo ? u started building right after u got the credit, and before GCP reached out ?