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0 pointsywoski3y ago0 comments

Oh geez, that's an entirely different can of worms that isn't related to the monorepo.

Most products at Google are not dropped because the monorepo makes it difficult for them to support - and I'm not sure how it would or how you got to that association. Also, plenty of products that are killed are not in the monorepo.

They are usually dropped due to a mix of things, but a big part is just better product management.

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8note3y ago

Better project management as in, somebody politicked their way into owning a replacement for a currently running thing?

The implemented product, as well as the vision for something like inbox or Google music is still way better than Gmail and YouTube music as the end user

KptMarchewa3y ago

Fixed that:

>They are usually dropped due to a mix of things, but a big part is just worse product management.

Google is now at the point where their new projects fail (like Stadia) because they killed old products. Killing products has second-order effects.

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