alt Hacker NewsThe quota we needed increased far beyond the usual was the YouTube API. The startup was a media editing and publishing tool, with a feature to upload videos to YouTube on your behalf. Uploading a video requires a ton of quota, which they gave us.
Regardless, dropping all quotas to 0 effectively killed our GCP account.
Interesting. I guess we’ve learned an important lesson in not building businesses around APIs that don’t have an SLA…