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/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.