[111111101101]

I was interested. Clicked the try button and just another wait list. When will Google learn that the method that worked so well with Gmail doesn't work any more. There are so many shiny toys to play with now, I will have forgotten about this tomorrow.

[jwr]

And if you don't sign up quickly after your turn in the queue comes up, you might miss the service altogether, because Google will have shut it down already.

[_ink_]

And if you are from Germany you can't even join the list. First I needed to verify it is really me. Get a confirmation code to my recovery mail. Get a code to my cell phone number. And than all I got is a service restricted message.

[tjuene]

It worked for me with a gsuite account from germany

[android521]

Google will die by its waitlist and region restrictions.

[miki123211]

The method absolutely does work, but you need loyal advocates who are praising your product to their friends, or preferrably users who are already knocking on your door.

[EugeneOZ]

They have a name for these people: Google Developer Experts (in reality: "Evangelists").

https://developers.google.com/community/experts

[thecupisblue]

Oh god, the GDE program. That title used to mean something, i.e. this person is a real expert in the topic.

Now it's just thrown to anyone who's willing enough to spam linkedin/twitter with Google bullshit and suck-up to the GDE community. Think everyone in the extended Google community got quite annoyed with the sudden rise in number of GDE's for blatantly stupid things.

This pops up especially if you're organising a conference in a Google-adjacent space, as you will get dozens of GDE's applying with talks that are pretty much a Google Codelab for a topic, without any real insights or knowledge shared, just a "lets go through tutorial together to show you this obscure google feature". And while there are a lot of good GDE's, in the last 5-6 years there has been such an influx of shitty ones that the program lost it's meaning and is being actively avoided.

[metaltyphoon]

Same with Microsoft MVP

[IshKebab]

I assume they weren't intending to release it today, and didn't have it ready, but didn't want people thinking that they were just following in Github's footprints.

[bognition]

I already pay $20/month for Gemini, I clicked sign up and had access instantly.

[hawk_]

Offtopic but how does Gemini $20 compare to the equivalent ChatGPT?

[bognition]

i use both. I think Gemini produces longer more complicated answers. ChatGPT is more succint, but it could be b/c I've trained ChatGPT how to talk to me.

The context window difference is really nice. I post very large bodies of text into gemini and it handles it well.

[sagarpatil]

I signed up on the waitlist when it was announced, got my invite today.

[ldjkfkdsjnv]

They had to release something, openai is moving at blazing speed

[mirekrusin]

At the moment the only thing openai is doing at "blazing speed" is burning investors' money.

[-__---____-ZXyw]

Sounds like a meme. I just can't take the phrase "blazing speed" seriously anymore. Is this intended humorously? Or is it just me

[jsemrau]

It's success theater. You need to show progress otherwise you might be perceived falling behind. In times where LoI's are written and partnerships are forged the promise has more value than the fact.

[archargelod]

Anymore? For me it always sounded too childish or sarcastic. I would expect to see "Blazingly Fast" on a box of Hot Wheels or Nerf Blaster, not a serious tech product.

[-__---____-ZXyw]

True. It would look like the real deal of a box of Hot Wheels too

[ldjkfkdsjnv]

you arent paying attention? google is getting smoked by teams of 25 at openai