Hi Steve, I think you're missing the point. Some startups are getting going with zero capital because an individual with some skills and some time can produce and sell a product using free cloud services and then once they've made a few bob can upgrade.
Google WERE supporting this model very well - shame on you for stopping. Mat. On Friday, 7 December 2012 09:18:18 UTC, Steve Daniels wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > I don't mean to show disrespect, but if your startup can't afford $50 to > send email from a Google Apps address, then you've probably got bigger > issues. > > Yours Respectfully, > > Steve > > On Friday, 7 December 2012 07:11:24 UTC, Thomas Wiradikusuma wrote: >> >> Hi Greg (of Google), >> >> I agree of what the other Greg said. It's very common to send >> transactional emails from a dedicated address (e.g. noreply). It's not >> professional (and even raise suspicion) if the "Click here to reset your >> password" email comes from j...@startupname.com for example. >> >> If it's not possible to increase the account from 1 to n, at least please >> allow the use of alias. >> >> >> On Friday, 7 December 2012 10:42:42 UTC+8, Greg wrote: >>> >>> Just saw that Google Apps is no longer free for >>> businesses<http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-for-businesses.html> >>> . >>> >>> I have no problem paying for a Google Apps account where I actually use >>> Google apps, but at the moment you have to have a Google Apps account to >>> link a domain to an Appengine app. Some of our apps have two or three >>> domains showing the same app, and because you need to have an account for >>> each email address that Appengine sends email from, we have three or four >>> accounts per domain. So this is potentially going to add $600 per year to >>> our costs - all for virtual accounts that don't actually use Google Apps at >>> all. >>> >>> Can someone from Google comment please? Either Google Apps accounts need >>> to remain free if they are associated with Appengine apps, or there needs >>> to be another way to link domains (and authorise email addresses) for >>> Appengine. >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/b1DiLTtto9IJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
