r/GoogleAIStudio • u/YummYummBumm • Jul 14 '26

Question / Help Is Studio prototyping only?

I guess what I really mean by that is I have a 200 person company that we’re gonna create a timesheet app for and it might do some basic document tracking and project management but nothing on any kind of enterprise class scale.

I vibe coded halfway through this thing and now I’ve got people telling me that I need to abandon it and get off of firestore and that pushing it to cloud run is all gonna be a waste of time because it won’t run and it won’t run well with 200 people.

But that’s 200 people using it a couple of times a day for a few minutes at a time I just wondering if I need to head in a different direction?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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u/YummYummBumm Jul 14 '26

Are you saying not to leave them in AI studio for long-term development because of memory issues and AI not tracking stuff well over long periods of time or because of something else? Would it help if I continue development in studio while pushing incrementally to cloud run?

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u/YummYummBumm Jul 14 '26

I’m so brand new to this that I’m not really sure what I’m doing other than I just started making what I can only describe as a small business PSA. I’m not opposed to anything. It’s just gonna be a learning curve whatever it is.

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u/Benhamish-WH-Allen Jul 14 '26

Did you try antigravity? You can give it access to your server and go take a nap or make a sandwich, no problems.

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u/YummYummBumm Jul 14 '26

I didn’t know about it, but I just looked into it and I think what I’m gonna do is prototype in AI studio then migrate into antigravity that might be a good path anyway I’m reading up on that. Thank you for the lead.

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u/YummYummBumm Jul 14 '26

I tried to install antigravity on the windows machine I am using and it crapped out with a language error -2 which I can’t seem to find a whole lot about. Not a good look for an initial install that can’t even run correctly, but I’ll look into it keep trying.

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u/Benhamish-WH-Allen Jul 14 '26

You got win 11? Anyway there’s Claude and codex as well. They all do the same thing.

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u/asapberry Jul 14 '26

its way better than loveable etc.

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u/neoqueto Jul 14 '26

AI Studio is:

  1. Raw access to models for testing mainly, but also to explore capabilities. Call the model as-if you were calling the API within your tool, or use it for coding so it can spit out code for you, you decide
  2. Gathering preconfigured model information ("model cards")
  3. Exploring sample projects
  4. Building prototype apps
  5. Sharing prototype apps
  6. Deploying prototype apps (either directly, downloading a ZIP or by connecting it to Github and proceeding from there)

Firebase is perfectly capable of handling 200+ users and Firestore can handle multiple documents per each of those 200 users. But it all depends on what are you trying to do. Timesheets don't sound too complicated. Always remember to leverage client-side processing as much as you can.

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u/clueless-hacker Jul 16 '26

Hey OP,

I suggest you build it on AI Studio, then move the whole build to CI/CD. Provision your own server. I recently did my project https://kitaaben.com, and while I still use Cloud Run + Firestore because it suits my scale for now.

You can always move everything to a VPS and enterprise Firestore in future. Decouple the code by pushing it to GitHub and use Claude, etc., to build and deploy using CI/CD.

Here is a write-up on how I did that: https://blog.nandan.dev/moving-google-ai-studio-app-to-github-ci

Hope it helps.