Curious to learn if anyone has done this before to fundraise or have an idea how they'd navigate this.
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This worked pretty well, as a matter of fact, it was the help of some of this contributions that our parents were able to afford our college tuitions and pay for books e.t.c.
Fast-forward to 2018, when I saw Yahoo Tanda app, it brought so much memory. I was actually in the process of building a similar app and get some wisdom from my mother how it used to work e.t.c but on seeing the Tanda app, I thought I better not compete with Yahoo :)
Unfortunately, just 3 months later, this app got stopped for reasons explained here https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/25/yahoo-shuts-down-social-savings-app-tanda-only-months-after-launch/ now, my interest picked again. My friends are asking that we put some savings together and I know its mostly referring to an idea behind the Tanda app.
I want to get started on this project but want to make sure I’m building something people will use. I know my family and friend will as we all grew up with this understanding but that won’t be enough.
So to the question, 1. Will you use this app to put some savings together with friends? 2. If not, why not? 3. What should we bear in mind should we be looking to go ahead with this?
Can’t wait to learn from everyone.
On reaching out to the Google Billing Team, they came up with several excuses including us using one of their top infrastructure which took all our credits. Of course that was a lie, we showed them our dashboard and services we had running. They then admitted it was an issue at their end.
Even till now, we only have 2 Compute Instances and 2 SQL instances.
After reaching out to the team severally to no avail, one eventually came back and claimed their Support Manager says they have to close the case as there's nothing they could further do on the matter. I asked, tell us what happened to the remaining credits, why was the account closed? Why was all our servers shut down?
All these questions and many others were not answered by the Team. Its over a month, they still can't figure our how Account got closed and what to do in our case.
We reached out to the GCP Slack group where we met this very helpful guy from Google. See his comment:
"Couldn’t agree more. Not just worrying, it’s unacceptable. The underlying issue is making sure that you are the real owner of the account, which is challenging when the account was deleted. The people who can confirm it have been unresponsive. I’m trying to figure out who they are exactly to message them personally (not through a ticketing system) and see if I can get an answer. I would be frustrated, too. We are failing you on this one, big time"
I implore you to take care when using GCP. Its clearly not mature and support has been really horrible. We have all communications archived and would be more than happy to share with anyone.
Anyone had a similar experience, please share! Don't be evil indeed!
