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and GPay), but also for WhatsApp (all my contacts have it now and they're haranguing me about it).\nAre there any inherent dangers involved in it?\nI have a hazy memory of reading a post on HN advising against relying on a Gmail account due to Google arbitrarily locking out the subscriber.","title":"Ask HN: Is using Google Suite considered detrimental?","updated_at":"2025-12-17T05:37:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"melenaboija"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"I wonder if someone has experience in using Google Suite instead of MS Office traditional tools in a professional environment and if could share it.
I feel it should be a pretty good move but I have some concerns for things such as having everything at Google premises. Security, privacy, ..."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Ask HN: Experience with Google Suite Instead of MS Office Professionally?"}},"_tags":["story","author_melenaboija","story_30443541","ask_hn"],"author":"melenaboija","children":[30524960],"created_at":"2022-02-23T17:20:09Z","created_at_i":1645636809,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"30443541","points":1,"story_id":30443541,"story_text":"I wonder if someone has experience in using Google Suite instead of MS Office traditional tools in a professional environment and if could share it.
I feel it should be a pretty good move but I have some concerns for things such as having everything at Google premises. Security, privacy, ...","title":"Ask HN: Experience with Google Suite Instead of MS Office Professionally?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:35:24Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"funkyy"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Ex-Googlers Try to Plug a Gap in Google\u2019s Business Suite"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["suite"],"value":"http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/01/ex-googlers-try-to-plug-a-gap-in-googles-business-suite/"}},"_tags":["story","author_funkyy","story_8402783"],"author":"funkyy","created_at":"2014-10-02T20:04:06Z","created_at_i":1412280246,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"8402783","points":1,"story_id":8402783,"story_text":"","title":"Ex-Googlers Try to Plug a Gap in Google\u2019s Business Suite","updated_at":"2024-09-19T21:11:32Z","url":"http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/01/ex-googlers-try-to-plug-a-gap-in-googles-business-suite/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gibsonf1"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Top Tech Consultancy Touts Google Office Suite"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296277,00.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_gibsonf1","story_53281"],"author":"gibsonf1","created_at":"2007-09-11T13:51:08Z","created_at_i":1189518668,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"53281","points":1,"story_id":53281,"title":"Top Tech Consultancy Touts Google Office Suite","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:21:55Z","url":"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296277,00.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"0_o"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Unofficial Google Desktop Suite"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"http://cybernetnews.com/2008/08/28/unofficial-google-desktop-suite/"}},"_tags":["story","author_0_o","story_290841"],"author":"0_o","created_at":"2008-08-30T13:13:05Z","created_at_i":1220101985,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"290841","points":1,"story_id":290841,"title":"Unofficial Google Desktop Suite","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:25:53Z","url":"http://cybernetnews.com/2008/08/28/unofficial-google-desktop-suite/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dsr12"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Google's Workspace suite is now available to anyone"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"https://www.engadget.com/google-workspace-open-everyone-free-spaces-100004157.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_dsr12","story_27504148"],"author":"dsr12","created_at":"2021-06-14T15:55:31Z","created_at_i":1623686131,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"27504148","points":1,"story_id":27504148,"title":"Google's Workspace suite is now available to anyone","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:43:21Z","url":"https://www.engadget.com/google-workspace-open-everyone-free-spaces-100004157.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jkradddic"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Coda, Would-Be Successor to Google\u2019s G-Suite, Now Valued Above $600M"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/08/11/coda-startup-backed-by-kleiner-perkins-and-greylock-raises-80-million/"}},"_tags":["story","author_jkradddic","story_24121635"],"author":"jkradddic","created_at":"2020-08-11T15:48:12Z","created_at_i":1597160892,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"24121635","points":1,"story_id":24121635,"title":"Coda, Would-Be Successor to Google\u2019s G-Suite, Now Valued Above $600M","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:44:18Z","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/08/11/coda-startup-backed-by-kleiner-perkins-and-greylock-raises-80-million/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"notlukesky"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Scoop: Google's G Suite cracks 2B users"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"https://www.axios.com/google-g-suite-total-users-9a6d3df6-c990-4866-9efc-ba6756ba3c4d.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_notlukesky","story_22558950"],"author":"notlukesky","created_at":"2020-03-12T17:03:37Z","created_at_i":1584032617,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"22558950","points":1,"story_id":22558950,"title":"Scoop: Google's G Suite cracks 2B users","updated_at":"2024-09-20T05:52:24Z","url":"https://www.axios.com/google-g-suite-total-users-9a6d3df6-c990-4866-9efc-ba6756ba3c4d.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"laxk"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"I have about 1K posts and I don't want to lose them, I know that I can migrate them using takeout.google.com (40GB) but I really want to keep using G+ as it works pretty well for my personal needs. As far as I understand, Google isn't going to shut down G+ for enterprise users, so I'm ready to pay $60 per year (basic plan).
My question is how I can migrate all G+ data from my personal G+ to enterprise G+?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Ask HN: How to migrate my personal Google+ to my G Suite Google+ (enterprise)?"}},"_tags":["story","author_laxk","story_19052239","ask_hn"],"author":"laxk","created_at":"2019-02-01T07:08:32Z","created_at_i":1549004912,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"19052239","points":1,"story_id":19052239,"story_text":"I have about 1K posts and I don't want to lose them, I know that I can migrate them using takeout.google.com (40GB) but I really want to keep using G+ as it works pretty well for my personal needs. As far as I understand, Google isn't going to shut down G+ for enterprise users, so I'm ready to pay $60 per year (basic plan).
My question is how I can migrate all G+ data from my personal G+ to enterprise G+?","title":"Ask HN: How to migrate my personal Google+ to my G Suite Google+ (enterprise)?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:42:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"startupdiscuss"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"Consider:
You use forms to throw up an interface, embed it in Google sites so you can brand it etc.
Then you collect data in Fusion tables, and analyze it.
You can run a little script and spit out the result back no the sites.
Do Sites, Forms, Fusion tables all link up together to allow this to happen or are they basically different products?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Ask HN: Can you \u201crapidly prototype\u201d with Google Suite?"}},"_tags":["story","author_startupdiscuss","story_15494113","ask_hn"],"author":"startupdiscuss","created_at":"2017-10-17T19:32:59Z","created_at_i":1508268779,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"15494113","points":1,"story_id":15494113,"story_text":"Consider:
You use forms to throw up an interface, embed it in Google sites so you can brand it etc.
Then you collect data in Fusion tables, and analyze it.
You can run a little script and spit out the result back no the sites.
Do Sites, Forms, Fusion tables all link up together to allow this to happen or are they basically different products?","title":"Ask HN: Can you \u201crapidly prototype\u201d with Google Suite?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:34:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vikrantsharma1"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Google Partners With India\u2019s Airtel To Provide Google Apps Suite"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"http://www.betadaily.com/2008/03/31/google-partners-with-indias-airtel-to-provide-google-apps-suite/"}},"_tags":["story","author_vikrantsharma1","story_151015"],"author":"vikrantsharma1","created_at":"2008-03-31T13:05:57Z","created_at_i":1206968757,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"151015","points":1,"story_id":151015,"story_text":"","title":"Google Partners With India\u2019s Airtel To Provide Google Apps Suite","updated_at":"2023-09-06T19:11:45Z","url":"http://www.betadaily.com/2008/03/31/google-partners-with-indias-airtel-to-provide-google-apps-suite/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pritambarhate"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Hi,
We are facing a strange problem with Google's Business Email and other G Suite products. My partner (and co-founder) is not able to login to company email from last 4 days. He changed his iPhone on that day. He has 2-factor authentication enabled. During the change, something happened and now he is not able to login to any of his G Suite services.
The first couple of days were during the weekend, so he took it lightly. Then, we changed his password from the G Suite Admin Console and tried to log in from multiple devices and machines. Still, he was not able to log in. We contacted Google support today, they said that this was unusual and the console team is looking at this but there is no estimated time of resolution.
Did any of you face anything similar? Yesterday, there was a case being discussed of a regular Gmail user locked out of this account. On that thread [1], I said I would be willing to pay $40-50 to resolve such problem on priority. In another thread [2], I mentioned Google and G-suite in connection with reliability and now I am personally experiencing this for a paid Google service. Just to note, we pay for 100+ users to Google (India). How ironic!
I had that image of 100% dependable Google for a long time. I guess no company is 100% dependable ever! To be fair to them, it has been only 6-7 hours since we have had the last response from them. Hopefully, this gets resolved quickly.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13006639\n[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994627"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Ask HN: G Suite: Google couldn't verify it's you \u2013 anybody faced this before?"}},"_tags":["story","author_pritambarhate","story_13015216","ask_hn"],"author":"pritambarhate","created_at":"2016-11-22T16:33:22Z","created_at_i":1479832402,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"13015216","points":1,"story_id":13015216,"story_text":"Hi,
We are facing a strange problem with Google's Business Email and other G Suite products. My partner (and co-founder) is not able to login to company email from last 4 days. He changed his iPhone on that day. He has 2-factor authentication enabled. During the change, something happened and now he is not able to login to any of his G Suite services.
The first couple of days were during the weekend, so he took it lightly. Then, we changed his password from the G Suite Admin Console and tried to log in from multiple devices and machines. Still, he was not able to log in. We contacted Google support today, they said that this was unusual and the console team is looking at this but there is no estimated time of resolution.
Did any of you face anything similar? Yesterday, there was a case being discussed of a regular Gmail user locked out of this account. On that thread [1], I said I would be willing to pay $40-50 to resolve such problem on priority. In another thread [2], I mentioned Google and G-suite in connection with reliability and now I am personally experiencing this for a paid Google service. Just to note, we pay for 100+ users to Google (India). How ironic!
I had that image of 100% dependable Google for a long time. I guess no company is 100% dependable ever! To be fair to them, it has been only 6-7 hours since we have had the last response from them. Hopefully, this gets resolved quickly.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13006639\n[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994627","title":"Ask HN: G Suite: Google couldn't verify it's you \u2013 anybody faced this before?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T23:58:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"HelloThur"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"I know my password for google suite admin (paid), but they have locked me out due to a suspicious login.
Google have locked me out with the following message:
"We detected an unusual sign-in attempt. To make sure that someone else isn't trying to access your account, your organization needs you to sign in using your corporate mobile device (the phone or tablet you normally use to access your corporate account).
If you don\u2019t have your corporate mobile device with you right now, try again later when you have your corporate mobile device with you. If you continue to have problems signing in, contact your administrator. Learn more
Go back & use your corporate mobile device"
I am unable to get back in:
* Google support doesn't work if you are logged out
* I have no primary mobile or corporate device to complete the above step on.
What does Google expect customers to do here?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["suite"],"value":"G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck"}},"_tags":["story","author_HelloThur","story_24109809","ask_hn"],"author":"HelloThur","children":[24110577,24112050,24112104,24112143,24112161,24112184,24112407,24112416,24112532,24112727,24112848,24112887,24112915,24113195,24113334,24113346,24113494,24113547,24113588,24113778,24113920,24114277,24114946,24115029,24116474,24116948,24117487,24117488,24118291],"created_at":"2020-08-10T14:46:38Z","created_at_i":1597070798,"num_comments":135,"objectID":"24109809","points":465,"story_id":24109809,"story_text":"I know my password for google suite admin (paid), but they have locked me out due to a suspicious login.
Google have locked me out with the following message:
"We detected an unusual sign-in attempt. To make sure that someone else isn't trying to access your account, your organization needs you to sign in using your corporate mobile device (the phone or tablet you normally use to access your corporate account).
If you don\u2019t have your corporate mobile device with you right now, try again later when you have your corporate mobile device with you. If you continue to have problems signing in, contact your administrator. Learn more
Go back & use your corporate mobile device"
I am unable to get back in:
* Google support doesn't work if you are logged out
* I have no primary mobile or corporate device to complete the above step on.
What does Google expect customers to do here?","title":"G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:43:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sqlpipe"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"I've been trying to start a business lately, and as many people do, have chosen to rely on Google's suite of products. Google Ads for marketing, Google workspace for email, Drive for spreadsheets... The works.
While working for other companies, I never really had a problem with their services. In fact, Google remains one of my favorite companies of all time for solving the search problem (their search engine is still the best, sorry haters).
However, over the past few months, I have STRUGGLED against the tide to use their other services. My Google ads account is currently suspended for reasons I cannot fathom. My Google Sheets spreadsheet is currently frozen (the reason I'm ranting right now). Their administrative setting pages feel like going to the DMV from the amount of options on screen. Last but not least, their support is almost nonexistent.
Am I alone in this? Is this a problem of my own making, by using Safari instead of Chrome, and not configuring my services properly? Or is this a feeling that others get?
Conclusion: I hope Google gets some real competition soon because it feels like they are falling off.
Edit: Shameless plug, my company peddles a data movement tool called SQLpipe. https://sqlpipe.com"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"I'm tired of Google's business products"}},"_tags":["story","author_sqlpipe","story_31026257","ask_hn"],"author":"sqlpipe","children":[31026348,31026619,31026637,31026643,31026800,31026812,31026878,31026937,31027072,31027202,31027216,31027243,31027312,31027317,31027332,31027361,31027383,31027402,31027452,31027486,31027512,31027527,31027569,31027572,31027643,31027650,31027863,31027864,31027906,31027925,31028040,31028094,31028248,31028753,31029124,31029258,31029591,31029860,31030073,31030197,31030415,31030484,31030734,31031577,31032203,31032709,31033665,31034493,31036314,31037092,31037600,31037848,31045087],"created_at":"2022-04-14T12:50:35Z","created_at_i":1649940635,"num_comments":188,"objectID":"31026257","points":221,"story_id":31026257,"story_text":"I've been trying to start a business lately, and as many people do, have chosen to rely on Google's suite of products. Google Ads for marketing, Google workspace for email, Drive for spreadsheets... The works.
While working for other companies, I never really had a problem with their services. In fact, Google remains one of my favorite companies of all time for solving the search problem (their search engine is still the best, sorry haters).
However, over the past few months, I have STRUGGLED against the tide to use their other services. My Google ads account is currently suspended for reasons I cannot fathom. My Google Sheets spreadsheet is currently frozen (the reason I'm ranting right now). Their administrative setting pages feel like going to the DMV from the amount of options on screen. Last but not least, their support is almost nonexistent.
Am I alone in this? Is this a problem of my own making, by using Safari instead of Chrome, and not configuring my services properly? Or is this a feeling that others get?
Conclusion: I hope Google gets some real competition soon because it feels like they are falling off.
Edit: Shameless plug, my company peddles a data movement tool called SQLpipe. https://sqlpipe.com","title":"I'm tired of Google's business products","updated_at":"2026-04-17T03:02:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gtf21"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"We're a ~40 person startup, about to scale post-series A. We have been using Google Suite since the beginning in 2015, and honestly it's just terrible software and feels like it has had zero updates in 7 years. One of the biggest problems for me with Gsuite is that there is no real offline support (I know there is supposed to be, but it has never worked for me, plus the drive isn't available offline). I work a lot on trains crossing Europe, or sometimes on flights. I just want to have my files accessible.
I use LibreOffice personally, and I'm thinking about moving the team to it before we seriously grow.
Has anyone tried this in their companies? Was it successful? I'm especially interested in companies of a similar size (or larger) than ours, and those where not everyone is super technical / a software engineer.
My big concerns are support and training, I think there are companies who offer this which would make it a lot easier.
(Edit: to be clear, our CFO will probably continue to use Excel, as will some of the team who build very complicated modelling sheets as that is what they're used to, but I'm thinking for the rest of us who mostly need decent spreadsheets, and good word-processing and presentation tools)."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?"}},"_tags":["story","author_gtf21","story_31634704","ask_hn"],"author":"gtf21","children":[31634836,31634972,31635181,31635348,31635378,31635383,31635478,31635503,31635638,31635652,31635742,31635810,31635830,31635833,31635863,31635919,31635941,31635959,31635960,31635975,31636095,31636112,31636113,31636129,31636158,31636164,31636180,31636191,31636230,31636538,31636890,31636932,31637148,31637553,31637622,31637703,31638014,31638107,31638188,31638509,31638511,31638522,31638558,31639104,31641561,31643301,31643509,31647332,31650543,31652412],"created_at":"2022-06-05T20:50:37Z","created_at_i":1654462237,"num_comments":160,"objectID":"31634704","points":114,"story_id":31634704,"story_text":"We're a ~40 person startup, about to scale post-series A. We have been using Google Suite since the beginning in 2015, and honestly it's just terrible software and feels like it has had zero updates in 7 years. One of the biggest problems for me with Gsuite is that there is no real offline support (I know there is supposed to be, but it has never worked for me, plus the drive isn't available offline). I work a lot on trains crossing Europe, or sometimes on flights. I just want to have my files accessible.
I use LibreOffice personally, and I'm thinking about moving the team to it before we seriously grow.
Has anyone tried this in their companies? Was it successful? I'm especially interested in companies of a similar size (or larger) than ours, and those where not everyone is super technical / a software engineer.
My big concerns are support and training, I think there are companies who offer this which would make it a lot easier.
(Edit: to be clear, our CFO will probably continue to use Excel, as will some of the team who build very complicated modelling sheets as that is what they're used to, but I'm thinking for the rest of us who mostly need decent spreadsheets, and good word-processing and presentation tools).","title":"Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?","updated_at":"2025-11-17T00:11:59Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MarcoSanto"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"I am asking for some help here to see if somebody has any opportunity or suggestion to procure some remote work that I might be able to do in my condition.\nI am from Italy and in lockdown. Presumably will not be able to move for the next 4-6 weeks.\nCannot leave my family since my spouse is a doc and I have to watch after the kids because grandparents on both sides cannot come close to the kids.
I tried popular platforms (up-Work etc.) but the process to be admitted and start getting gigs is long/complex and a bit foreign to me.
I just recently finished teaching two bootcamps in Germany in Full-Stack Web Dev.\nI am also a Certified Engineer (Italy), but unsure what I could do remotely in this regard.
Here are some things I think I can contribute to:
1) Front-end specifically React, but would not disdain Vue. Good to advanced skills here.
2) Apps Script / Google Suite coding and automation. Good to advanced skills here
3) Back-end, specifically Node/Express/Mongo. Good to advanced skills here, but can do basic SQL methods.
4) Some Python/Panda but very basic.
5) Remote team management / project management. Good to advanced skills here.
Also, if others are in my situation and affected by the travel ban, please come forward. It's always good to band together.
Marco"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: I am in lockdown. Asking help to find remote work"}},"_tags":["story","author_MarcoSanto","story_22575987","ask_hn"],"author":"MarcoSanto","children":[22576251,22579599,22579825,22591538],"created_at":"2020-03-14T15:33:45Z","created_at_i":1584200025,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"22575987","points":23,"story_id":22575987,"story_text":"I am asking for some help here to see if somebody has any opportunity or suggestion to procure some remote work that I might be able to do in my condition.\nI am from Italy and in lockdown. Presumably will not be able to move for the next 4-6 weeks.\nCannot leave my family since my spouse is a doc and I have to watch after the kids because grandparents on both sides cannot come close to the kids.
I tried popular platforms (up-Work etc.) but the process to be admitted and start getting gigs is long/complex and a bit foreign to me.
I just recently finished teaching two bootcamps in Germany in Full-Stack Web Dev.\nI am also a Certified Engineer (Italy), but unsure what I could do remotely in this regard.
Here are some things I think I can contribute to:
1) Front-end specifically React, but would not disdain Vue. Good to advanced skills here.
2) Apps Script / Google Suite coding and automation. Good to advanced skills here
3) Back-end, specifically Node/Express/Mongo. Good to advanced skills here, but can do basic SQL methods.
4) Some Python/Panda but very basic.
5) Remote team management / project management. Good to advanced skills here.
Also, if others are in my situation and affected by the travel ban, please come forward. It's always good to band together.
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With Microsoft Teams, Google Suite and all the other collaboration products around, how is email still used? my impression of email is that it's very hard to use for communication because it's too formal, so it's hard for average people to communicate with (it's harder to write a single, well-read, overelaborate email with all the details, than it is to send instant messages back-and-forth asking and answering questions.). So I think companies use email mostly for external communication, but internally they only use it for matters of significant importance, akin to notifications. But even that can be done with Slack channels. So is email useless for internal use?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Never held a job. In what ways companies use email internally nowadays?"}},"_tags":["story","author_oakenfloor","story_32467278","ask_hn"],"author":"oakenfloor","children":[32467392,32467419,32467518,32467523,32468062,32468100,32468163,32468296,32468580,32468597,32468932,32469767,32470352,32470906,32471138,32482416],"created_at":"2022-08-15T08:46:05Z","created_at_i":1660553165,"num_comments":29,"objectID":"32467278","points":20,"story_id":32467278,"story_text":"High schooler here, looking to make something involving email, for teams. I want to attempt to bring email to the 21st century, so to say.
With Microsoft Teams, Google Suite and all the other collaboration products around, how is email still used? my impression of email is that it's very hard to use for communication because it's too formal, so it's hard for average people to communicate with (it's harder to write a single, well-read, overelaborate email with all the details, than it is to send instant messages back-and-forth asking and answering questions.). So I think companies use email mostly for external communication, but internally they only use it for matters of significant importance, akin to notifications. But even that can be done with Slack channels. So is email useless for internal use?","title":"Ask HN: Never held a job. In what ways companies use email internally nowadays?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:52:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"CodinM"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"I've been using Google Apps/Google Suite for the past 10+ years, recently upon clicking the "Not Spam" button I had an email (from a govt agency no less) be gone from the account, the experience with support for a service I do pay for has been abysmal and I want to switch, but don't know where - especially given the integration Google has with everything nowadays. I have used Tuta before and did not enjoy it."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?"}},"_tags":["story","author_CodinM","story_38383967","ask_hn"],"author":"CodinM","children":[38384110,38384125,38384181,38384217,38384625,38384824,38384972,38385808,38386667,38386705,38387818,38387996,38388059,38389420,38390649,38390704,38391245,38391302,38391910,38392314,38393979,38395480],"created_at":"2023-11-22T19:32:35Z","created_at_i":1700681555,"num_comments":44,"objectID":"38383967","points":17,"story_id":38383967,"story_text":"I've been using Google Apps/Google Suite for the past 10+ years, recently upon clicking the "Not Spam" button I had an email (from a govt agency no less) be gone from the account, the experience with support for a service I do pay for has been abysmal and I want to switch, but don't know where - especially given the integration Google has with everything nowadays. I have used Tuta before and did not enjoy it.","title":"Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?","updated_at":"2025-03-16T21:35:01Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rietta"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Google G Suite issue for cancer widow. Her blog domain is expiring in Google Domains on her LATE HUSBAND's account. She is the estate executor. She can read his emails via his phone. If his GSuite password is not in KeePass, what recovery options does she have?
My friend was 38 years old and didn't even know he was sick until January & died from an aggressive cancer by March. They were not prepared for this. Fellow geeks don't turn your home into corporate IT and make your spouse & kids feel trapped by technology while grieving your loss."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["suite"],"value":"G Suite account recovery for cancer widow advice"}},"_tags":["story","author_rietta","story_24622533","ask_hn"],"author":"rietta","children":[24622616],"created_at":"2020-09-28T23:46:37Z","created_at_i":1601336797,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"24622533","points":15,"story_id":24622533,"story_text":"Google G Suite issue for cancer widow. Her blog domain is expiring in Google Domains on her LATE HUSBAND's account. She is the estate executor. She can read his emails via his phone. If his GSuite password is not in KeePass, what recovery options does she have?
My friend was 38 years old and didn't even know he was sick until January & died from an aggressive cancer by March. They were not prepared for this. Fellow geeks don't turn your home into corporate IT and make your spouse & kids feel trapped by technology while grieving your loss.","title":"G Suite account recovery for cancer widow advice","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:03:28Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tbeseda"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Even sites that are progressively enhanced well enough to offer a nice, usable initial render?\nI am looking for weather, news, stock tickers, etc. I accept that Google's suite of apps won't load without JS.\nty"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Curated list of JavaScript-free/lite sites?"}},"_tags":["story","author_tbeseda","story_32907424","ask_hn"],"author":"tbeseda","children":[32907895,32909099,32920185,32948717],"created_at":"2022-09-20T03:44:04Z","created_at_i":1663645444,"num_comments":6,"objectID":"32907424","points":14,"story_id":32907424,"story_text":"Even sites that are progressively enhanced well enough to offer a nice, usable initial render?\nI am looking for weather, news, stock tickers, etc. I accept that Google's suite of apps won't load without JS.\nty","title":"Ask HN: Curated list of JavaScript-free/lite sites?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T12:01:05Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dhruvkar"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"https://imgur.com/a/NZvdkL4
We use these systems for our small business (20 employees, 3 physical locations).
(A) ERP: Handling Inventory and Accounting.
(B) Less Annoying CRM: Tracking Customer Interactions. It's a CRM.
(C) Mailchimp: Sending customer marketing communications
(D) Google Suite: Email, Contacts, Calendar and Drive
(E) Sparkpost: Automated internal emails with report attachments. Notification emails to customers.
(F) Server: Runs scripts for (E) and (G)
(G) Hugo/Netlify Main Site: Mostly static site. Interacts with (C) and (D)
My question is how do you keep track of everything and keep it all in sync? \nDo you create a separate database and use scripts to update it from all these different sources?
How do you handle this at your companies?
I foresee increased interaction between all of these systems and it's getting overwhelming keeping them synced and working together."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Best practices for keeping various business systems in sync?"}},"_tags":["story","author_dhruvkar","story_17026196","ask_hn"],"author":"dhruvkar","children":[17026911,17027234,17029072,17036530],"created_at":"2018-05-08T23:15:54Z","created_at_i":1525821354,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"17026196","points":12,"story_id":17026196,"story_text":"https://imgur.com/a/NZvdkL4
We use these systems for our small business (20 employees, 3 physical locations).
(A) ERP: Handling Inventory and Accounting.
(B) Less Annoying CRM: Tracking Customer Interactions. It's a CRM.
(C) Mailchimp: Sending customer marketing communications
(D) Google Suite: Email, Contacts, Calendar and Drive
(E) Sparkpost: Automated internal emails with report attachments. Notification emails to customers.
(F) Server: Runs scripts for (E) and (G)
(G) Hugo/Netlify Main Site: Mostly static site. Interacts with (C) and (D)
My question is how do you keep track of everything and keep it all in sync? \nDo you create a separate database and use scripts to update it from all these different sources?
How do you handle this at your companies?
I foresee increased interaction between all of these systems and it's getting overwhelming keeping them synced and working together.","title":"Ask HN: Best practices for keeping various business systems in sync?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:23:18Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dan_pixelflow"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Hi!
Similar to [0] and [1], but hoping this is different enough to warrant a new topic.
For the last 15 years, we've had Google Apps For Work/G Suite/Google Workspace for our family - and we use Gmail, Drive, Photos, and importantly have spent hundreds on Google Play Store purchases (albeit, 90% of that was using credit from Google Opinion Rewards) - we've all only ever had Android phones, so over ~10+ years, it starts to add up!\nWe also all use YouTube and oAuth into a good few services with our accounts too.
So, moving to Exchange/O365 or another service that isn't Google means we'd lose our Play purchases. If there was a way we could transfer them to a free account (I've asked them)
I think the only real option is to upgrade, so we keep all our non-exportable (at least, not easily) data. I'd love to move to a self-hosted world of Nextcloud, Mail in a Box, Bitwarden (we're doing this anyway already) and a Photos alternative, but I don't think that's possible right now, at least not with the time restriction Google's placed on us.
Is there really no other option? Seems silly, but I guess it's been free for so long anyway. Now it's \u00a3200 a year - incredible!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998659\n[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Deep in the Google Apps for Work/free G Suite/Workspace ecosphere \u2013 what's next?"}},"_tags":["story","author_dan_pixelflow","story_30008269","ask_hn"],"author":"dan_pixelflow","created_at":"2022-01-20T12:54:57Z","created_at_i":1642683297,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"30008269","points":12,"story_id":30008269,"story_text":"Hi!
Similar to [0] and [1], but hoping this is different enough to warrant a new topic.
For the last 15 years, we've had Google Apps For Work/G Suite/Google Workspace for our family - and we use Gmail, Drive, Photos, and importantly have spent hundreds on Google Play Store purchases (albeit, 90% of that was using credit from Google Opinion Rewards) - we've all only ever had Android phones, so over ~10+ years, it starts to add up!\nWe also all use YouTube and oAuth into a good few services with our accounts too.
So, moving to Exchange/O365 or another service that isn't Google means we'd lose our Play purchases. If there was a way we could transfer them to a free account (I've asked them)
I think the only real option is to upgrade, so we keep all our non-exportable (at least, not easily) data. I'd love to move to a self-hosted world of Nextcloud, Mail in a Box, Bitwarden (we're doing this anyway already) and a Photos alternative, but I don't think that's possible right now, at least not with the time restriction Google's placed on us.
Is there really no other option? Seems silly, but I guess it's been free for so long anyway. Now it's \u00a3200 a year - incredible!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998659\n[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432","title":"Deep in the Google Apps for Work/free G Suite/Workspace ecosphere \u2013 what's next?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:15:35Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"litoE"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"We operate a self-hosted email server, just a few users and very low volume. Our server delivers most of our outbound email directly to the destination servers, but, for various reasons, email from us to a few servers sometimes gets rejected. Up to now, the workaround has been to also have a Google G Suite account for our domain, and use the Google server to relay our email to those finicky domains. With Google G Suite/Workspace no longer being "free forever", we are looking for an alternative relaying server. Volume is minimal, probable fewer than 10 relayed emails per day. Any suggestions appreciated."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Looking for a Backup Email Relay"}},"_tags":["story","author_litoE","story_30604215","ask_hn"],"author":"litoE","children":[30604457,30604736,30606794,30606854,30609365],"created_at":"2022-03-08T18:51:18Z","created_at_i":1646765478,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"30604215","points":9,"story_id":30604215,"story_text":"We operate a self-hosted email server, just a few users and very low volume. Our server delivers most of our outbound email directly to the destination servers, but, for various reasons, email from us to a few servers sometimes gets rejected. Up to now, the workaround has been to also have a Google G Suite account for our domain, and use the Google server to relay our email to those finicky domains. With Google G Suite/Workspace no longer being "free forever", we are looking for an alternative relaying server. Volume is minimal, probable fewer than 10 relayed emails per day. Any suggestions appreciated.","title":"Ask HN: Looking for a Backup Email Relay","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:37:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"limrod631"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"Just saw that spreadsheet.com is shutting down. Wild that a company that raised $5.5M wasn't able to "achieve venture scale growth." Especially wild since that was a massive market. Googling really quick, and it looks like according to askwonder.com, there are 750 million to 2 billion people in the world who use either Google Sheets or Excel. Google Suite, which includes Google Sheets, is used by approximately 2 billion users every month, while Microsoft Excel has an estimated 750 million to 1.2 billion monthly users globally.
I'm not enamored by big tech (yes, including Microsoft Excel). I think most are old and clunky. Does anyone have advice on alternatives besides Google Suite? I'm thinking about going with https://www.thebricks.com/ or https://www.zoho.com/sheet/. Any others I should consider?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Spreadsheet.com Shutting Down? Alternatives?"}},"_tags":["story","author_limrod631","story_39354484","ask_hn"],"author":"limrod631","children":[39354549,39354857,39355657,39355678,39357177,39357226,39371629],"created_at":"2024-02-13T04:37:05Z","created_at_i":1707799025,"num_comments":11,"objectID":"39354484","points":8,"story_id":39354484,"story_text":"Just saw that spreadsheet.com is shutting down. Wild that a company that raised $5.5M wasn't able to "achieve venture scale growth." Especially wild since that was a massive market. Googling really quick, and it looks like according to askwonder.com, there are 750 million to 2 billion people in the world who use either Google Sheets or Excel. Google Suite, which includes Google Sheets, is used by approximately 2 billion users every month, while Microsoft Excel has an estimated 750 million to 1.2 billion monthly users globally.
I'm not enamored by big tech (yes, including Microsoft Excel). I think most are old and clunky. Does anyone have advice on alternatives besides Google Suite? I'm thinking about going with https://www.thebricks.com/ or https://www.zoho.com/sheet/. Any others I should consider?","title":"Spreadsheet.com Shutting Down? Alternatives?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:26:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rootsudo"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","suite"],"value":"The trend as of late has been to "degoogle"-ify life, especially on HN and other tech places.
With that said, outside of self hosting, which, IMO is the "best" option - there are opportunities for other vendors. (Best meaning you know what you're doing, hopefully, but at the cost of possibly more money and time.)
Amazon runs and competes w/ Google offerings for across the board - do you think they're better?
They are "Ad-Tech" but my opinion has been that Amazon is "marginally" a better steward for cloud because they don't close shop/projects with little notice - they have many offerings across infrastructure.
They also do not have an open-ID esque SSO that ties your identity/life into one company - something that Google/Microsoft offer though the Microsoft one pales in comparison to Google.
I think it's also fair to compare against "Microsoft" here too, but IMO MSFT's image and privacy policies have vastly improved and are more transparent.
They are also in adtech, they have a search engine - bing but I hardly see Amazon discussed in this aspect.
Microsoft and Google IMO are much more 1:1 as they offer the same LOB - Google Suite/O365, email, etc but Amazon never comes up."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"Ask HN: Is Amazon a better \u201cdata/privacy steward\u201d than Google?"}},"_tags":["story","author_rootsudo","story_31417524","ask_hn"],"author":"rootsudo","children":[31417574,31417952,31419268,31420085],"created_at":"2022-05-17T23:41:00Z","created_at_i":1652830860,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"31417524","points":8,"story_id":31417524,"story_text":"The trend as of late has been to "degoogle"-ify life, especially on HN and other tech places.
With that said, outside of self hosting, which, IMO is the "best" option - there are opportunities for other vendors. (Best meaning you know what you're doing, hopefully, but at the cost of possibly more money and time.)
Amazon runs and competes w/ Google offerings for across the board - do you think they're better?
They are "Ad-Tech" but my opinion has been that Amazon is "marginally" a better steward for cloud because they don't close shop/projects with little notice - they have many offerings across infrastructure.
They also do not have an open-ID esque SSO that ties your identity/life into one company - something that Google/Microsoft offer though the Microsoft one pales in comparison to Google.
I think it's also fair to compare against "Microsoft" here too, but IMO MSFT's image and privacy policies have vastly improved and are more transparent.
They are also in adtech, they have a search engine - bing but I hardly see Amazon discussed in this aspect.
Microsoft and Google IMO are much more 1:1 as they offer the same LOB - Google Suite/O365, email, etc but Amazon never comes up.","title":"Ask HN: Is Amazon a better \u201cdata/privacy steward\u201d than Google?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:06:58Z"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":7664,"nbPages":20,"page":0,"params":"query=Google+Suite&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":26,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":14},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":3,"total":3},"total":3},"total":4},"fetch":{"query":7,"scanning":10,"total":18},"getIdx":{"load":{"gens":2,"total":3},"total":3},"total":27},"query":"Google Suite","serverTimeMS":29}