I want to nitpick the point here : "And Office suite wise, it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering"
From my point of view, it's more :
"Google screwed up their online, instantaneous multi-user tool so bad that Microsoft had the time to pour billions into Office-Online-365-whatever-name and now you have Word & Excel in the browser and Google lost their edge".
Without any knowledge of the matter, just looking from outside, Google had the money and the talent to get there but not the focus and the drive.
Silly example : Coloring a text in "Google Docs": the icon is black and white. You can't make that up. Impossible to find it every time I need it and I am using it for 2 months now. Every little detail is like that, showing lack of care for the users.
please rework your color gradient text on the landing page of Wanderfugl.
On dark mode it is rendered as a rectangle of gradient. My dark mode is handled by Dark Reader the firefox addon.
It breaks the flow of presentation.
Also, at the bottom, the beta is opened but it closes the November 15th, so it's close and open at the same time :) (else it's November 2026?)
I agree
How can the previous comment be on hacker news ?
Every one here has followed the llama release saga. The famous cheeky PR on their GitHub with the torrent link was genius comedy.
Does Gemini really does a good job at detecting promotional video ? For example, that one video discussed in this post is one huge promotion for his friend product but it is actually built in a way that clearly appeals to nerdy audience. The video boasts the rigorous testing, provides scientific explanations, nerdy jokes, etc.
What Gemini says about that ?
Half the ideas have a solution or a WIP solution :
- first bullet point is litteraly what made Instagram back in 2010s
- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture
- Lifting coach : I 100% bet most lifting app teams are already on it
- Recommandation engine : there is probably 0 money to make here to link random web pages. Where there is money, it's already done brillantly (for the companies) : Tiktok, Youtube algorithms have made huge progress since I see a lot of comments by people saying "I don't know why YouTube recommanded me that video but I am glad I watched it", GOogle News, and probably many more.
- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture
- everything "minimalist" => any good tool focused on 1 main feature and get success will add more feature to cater to specific needs that current users have or that future users are thought to have.
Troubling that these eminent great leaders does not cite climate change among societal-scale risks, a bigger and more certain societal-scale risk than a pandemy.
Would be a shame to have energy consumption by datacenters regulated, am I right ?
From my point of view, it's more : "Google screwed up their online, instantaneous multi-user tool so bad that Microsoft had the time to pour billions into Office-Online-365-whatever-name and now you have Word & Excel in the browser and Google lost their edge".
Without any knowledge of the matter, just looking from outside, Google had the money and the talent to get there but not the focus and the drive.
Silly example : Coloring a text in "Google Docs": the icon is black and white. You can't make that up. Impossible to find it every time I need it and I am using it for 2 months now. Every little detail is like that, showing lack of care for the users.