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  Alan (@bitforth) reported 8 minutes ago

  @GergelyOrosz I am not surprised because I happen to have friends there. Google also uses them, Facebook names them differently but it's essentially the same thing. Especially in RL, the FANG documents, and so do most large tech companies. I would even challenge your claim that PRDs decide what should be built. In most companies, the core decision already exists before anyone opens the document either because a big customer problem has escalated, or an executive has set a priority, or sales demand a feature, a competitor has moved, or a small group has already agreed on the direction. A PRD RARELY creates that decision. They're mostly artifacts that large organizations require to make work visible to people who are not in the room where product decisions happen. You worked at Uber. You should know this better than most... the actual decision gets made in a meeting, a Slack thread, or a conversation between a few senior people. THEN the PRD is written just to formalize the decision, gather approvals, assign ownership, and create evidence of cross-functional collaboration. During calibration, that artifact becomes proof that someone “drove alignment” across six teams. The strongest case for a PRD is pretty much to stop people from building 6 different interpretations of the same idea, but then again... Google uses them aggressively and it is almost the perfect counterexample. It launched Allo and Duo while Hangouts already existed. It later killed Allo, split Hangouts into Chat and Meet, and eventually folded Duo into Meet. It ran Inbox beside Gmail for four years, then shut Inbox down and moved parts of it into Gmail. It acquired Waze in 2013, explicitly kept its product team separate, and still develops both Waze and Google Maps as overlapping navigation products more than a decade later. I am 100% SURE all of those teams had detailed PRDs. In fact, a polished PRD can make duplication worse. It gives every team a coherent narrative, supporting metrics, a roadmap, and a professional-looking artifact with which to defend its territory.

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  VSR (@VSR9000) reported 9 minutes ago

  Despite unlimited money and talent, nearly every attempt to build social media apps like X eventually ended up in the infamous Google Graveyard. Here’s the full body count: 1. Google+ (2011–2019) Google’s biggest, most hyped swing at Facebook and Twitter. They launched with “Circles” — a way to sort your friends, family, and coworkers so you could share different stuff with different people. It was deeply integrated with YouTube and Gmail. Why it flopped: No clear reason to switch. Cluttered interface. Nobody was actually using it. Then a massive data leak in 2018 was the final nail. Google killed the consumer version in 2019. 2. Orkut (2004–2014) Launched the same year as Facebook and was actually one of Google’s most successful social networks… just not where it mattered most. It was a classic social site: friends, communities, ratings. It exploded in Brazil and India but never caught fire in the US or Europe. Once Facebook went global, Orkut slowly bled out and got shut down in 2014. 3. Google Buzz (2010–2011) Google’s attempt at Twitter, built straight into Gmail. You could post links, photos, videos, and status updates to your contacts. It lasted barely a year because it was a privacy nightmare. By default it made your most-emailed contacts public. Backlash was immediate, the FTC sued, and Google quietly buried it. 4. Google Wave (2009–2012) The most ambitious (and most confusing) project of the bunch. It tried to merge email, instant messaging, wikis, and real-time collaborative docs into one thing. You could watch people type live and drag media straight into conversations. It was basically Slack/Discord years early… but almost nobody understood what it was supposed to replace. Too clever for its own good. Dead by 2012. 5. The smaller experiments Even after Google+ died, they kept poking at social: Shoelace (2019–2020): Hyperlocal app to help people in the same city meet up for real-life events. Perfect timing… right before COVID killed all offline plans. Shut down in 2020. Keen (2020–2024): AI-powered Pinterest alternative for curating interest boards. Quietly killed in early 2024. What’s left? YouTube. That’s it. Google’s only real social media win. Instead of chasing another text-based timeline, they’ve gone all-in on short-form video with YouTube Shorts and just pulling social content from everywhere else into Google Discover.

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  Matthew Tse (@MatthewTse_) reported 10 minutes ago

  We combat spam at @ImprovMX. I used to be on the other end too, complaining about ineffective gmail spam filters. The difficulty comes down to incentive. Your everyday user sends email for free and just expects it to work. Scammers make more money by adapting their scam mail "just right" so it makes it past the latest spam filters and successfully scams users. So every time we tighten the spam algorithm just a bit, we get a flood of angry users complaining that their poorly crafted emails (missing DKIM, DMARC, poor subject lines/content, etc.) got spam filtered, and they're not going to make their emails look more legitimate. Whereas the scammers are gonna spend 24/7 watching and adapting to the latest spam algorithms. The incentivized side is going to continue to win.

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  Anurag Tiwari🇮🇳 (@AnuragT54755144) reported 11 minutes ago

  Hi @TeamYouTube ,I own the youtube channel @TheKiranaMart . unfortunately I forgot the gmail and phone number used to create the channel,so I can't sign in, could you please advice me on the official recovery process.thankyou.

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  iris • when weirdos fall to heaven 101 (@suppakanawhippd) reported 13 minutes ago

  is anyone else's gmail down?

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  denaskul (@denaskulinicius) reported 18 minutes ago

  if your password resets ever hit spam, here's why: you send marketing and transactional from the same place. so when a promo blast spikes complaints, it bleeds into your receipts, resets, and confirmations. the standard fix: split the streams. transactional on its own subdomain. marketing on another. but know the limit subdomains aren't a firewall. gmail rolls subdomain behavior up into your root domain. so separation contains the damage. it doesn't make you immune. the only true isolation is a separate domain (or dedicated IP). most brands learn all of this the day a customer can't log in.

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  Zombie🪦💜 V✩SCAPE (@zombieissleepy) reported 20 minutes ago

  has anyone else's gmail been sooooo slow recently? I feel like it's been taking like 5 minutes to open

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  Tony Simons (@tonysimons_) reported 21 minutes ago

  @RouteAPI Totally fair concern. It’s not one blanket OAuth grant across every service. Each app is connected and authorized separately, so Gmail, Canva, Facebook, etc. can each be revoked independently. Composio also supports tighter controls: - OAuth scopes can be customized per app using a custom auth config - Individual tools/actions can be allowlisted, such as Gmail read + draft but no send or delete The caveat: the 30-second Composio Connect setup I used relies on their managed default scopes. For strict least-privilege access, I’d configure a custom session/MCP server with only the exact apps, scopes, and actions Hermes needs.

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  Jose Mugaburu (@mugabuilds) reported 27 minutes ago

  @bradshannon They're alive because of the millions of people using their tools, and how other tools cannot work within them. Everyone has a Gmail acct and GDrive, but Gemini doesn't seem to give you the expected outcomes, and the other models will never be able to operate natively unless they build their own products. The same with Apple Intelligence and how terrible it is compared to the rest, but I would love to have a simple/native way to use my iCloud/photos/calendar. We get either the model or the tools, not both right now unless you do a massive migration.

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  Matt (@m13v_) reported 36 minutes ago

  the fix was never a smarter model. it's that runner runs on the desktop with 42 connectors wired in, so gmail, linear and hubspot are one context instead of me tabbing between four windows to hand-carry the numbers.

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  Eve Koguce (@EveKoguce) reported 41 minutes ago

  @author_tfenske Yes, AI has made it possible to cheat us in new ways. They can transform our blurbs and reviews to write emails that almost sound legit. And yes, Oprah used a gmail account - so down to earth, right?:)

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  John-Daniel Trask (@traskjd) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Jiminy_Kirket Yep, same. Just about everything logs me out non stop now from Google. People say 'check the settings' but i'm more concerned they're rotating accounts like mad due to undisclosed issues. On my personal gmail I've never tweaked the settings, for example.

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  Muhammet A. 👉🏻 Mobile Dev (@indiesoftwaredv) reported 42 minutes ago

  @manol_ai I never though X login do you think only Gmail is enough?

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  Subscribr (@SubscribrAI) reported 43 minutes ago

  If I was FORCED to build a YouTube channel from $0 to $5,000 a month in 30 days, no face, no camera, no team, here is exactly what I would do. Days 1 to 4. Pick the niche on math, never on passion. Audience 35 to 65 in US, UK, Canada, Australia. RPM $15 to $45 per thousand views. Evergreen topics with no expiry. The 5 niches printing right now: Depression era DIY, Native American elder health, off grid conspiracy energy, senior friendly gardening, vintage collectible appraisal. Skip anything where the top 20 channels all have 1 million subs and studio budgets. Skip AI doctor and AI financial advisor niches. YouTube is actively demonetizing those. Days 1 to 7 in parallel. Warm up the aged Gmail. Buy 3 aged accounts. 3 to 5 years old minimum. Login through a residential proxy. Watch 2 to 3 videos in the target niche on day 1. 4 to 6 videos per day from days 2 to 5. Subscribe to 10 to 15 channels max. Leave real comments. Do not overdo it. YouTube flags overactive new accounts as bots. Days 4 to 7. Build the outlier file. Open 15 small channels in the niche under 20,000 subs. Sort each by most popular. Screenshot every video doing 3x above that channel's average. 20 screenshots equals 20 topics with proven demand. I am not brainstorming. I am reading the answer key. Day 8. First upload. Proven topic times proven title format. Script structured as a story with setup, tension, resolution. Not a listicle. Lists let viewers leave at minute 4. Stories force them to the end. Same title formula every video. Warning plus specific number. "STOP paying X." "Never do Y." "The 7 Greatest X." Production. Subscribr for the script. AI character or faceless voiceover. B-roll from free libraries. CapCut for editing. Under $7 per finished video. Days 8 to 20. Ship 1 video every 2 days. 6 uploads in 12 days. Read impressions at 48 hours. Above 500 means the account is alive. Day 20. Read the data. 1 to 2 videos will be outliers. Higher CTR. Higher retention. That is the platform telling me exactly what this channel is. Kill the format on the underperformers. Make 4 more of the outlier. Days 20 to 30. Attach revenue from video 1. $47 ebook in every description. 100,000 monthly views in a $20 RPM niche equals $2,000 in AdSense. A $47 ebook converting 0.3% of viewers equals 300 sales equals $14,100. Combined: over $5,000 easily inside 30 days if the outlier hits. The whole system runs on 3 aged Gmails, 1 outlier file, 1 title formula, and 1 ebook. 99% of you will bookmark this and do nothing. Which is exactly why it keeps working for the people who run it.