[client4]

I was going to make this same joke. It's hard to put faith into a product when Google keeps killing them off. Wave and Google Code are two top of mind products that I missed when they were gone.

Conversely, I think it's important for Google engineers to be able to try new things and publish products without having to worry about supporting them forever. Is there some sort of happy medium? Like a Google labs of products that are in various states of whimsical testing?

Cloud source looks nice, and for GCP projects I'm sure it will have a nice tie in, but for now I'm 100% more likely to push code to Gitlab until it makes sense to do otherwise.

[theptip]

I know that is the meme, but are there any examples of Google dropping enterprise (i.e. paid) offerings? I can think of a few free services that they have dropped, but that's a different story than dropping a commercial service that you're selling to enterprise users.

[client4]

I don't know. A quick perusal of the graveyard[1] shows what I would consider mostly free services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

[toomuchtodo]

Maps wasn't dropped, but the pricing shifts are similar in impact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16980166

[sorenjan]

> Like a Google labs of products that are in various states of whimsical testing?

They actually had precisely that, but then they cancelled it.

> Google described Google Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Labs

[dtech]

Were people really that affected by code? They EOL'ed with quite a lenient time schedule, and provided migration tools.