Startup Founder's Frustrating Experience with Google Cloud Platform Quota Approval Process
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Summary
A startup founder shares their frustrating experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), where after spending 6 months working with GCP support to get quota approval for their startup launch—including submitting system diagrams, code samples, financial reports, and growth predictions—they finally received approval only to have their quota algorithmically set to zero across all services immediately after launching. The founder highlights the frustrating asymmetry in communication: GCP auto-rejects quota requests if users don't respond within 48 hours, but their own responses take 1-3 weeks.
Key quotes
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We sent them system diagrams, code samples, financial reports, growth predictions, etc. It was months of back and forth.
They auto-reject your quota request if you don't respond to their emails within 48 hours but their responses take 1-3 weeks.
After 6 months, they eventually approved us for our quota, we launched, and they shut us down to 0 quota across all services.
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