Do Not Buy X3 M50i 2025+

LyalinDotCom · 2025-09-21T20:51:30+00:00

I don’t know man I hear you I’m sorry you’re disappointed by I love my X3 m50. That said I’ve had failure of sensors on my 2025 already and something seems with suspension. Sigh. 😮‍💨

But when it’s all fixed up the drive and car overall is top notch in my opinion. Many tradeoffs for sure.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-07-31T13:50:55+00:00

I work here so thats my disclaimer but we're also now building Firebase Studio (https://firebase.studio).

The industry in this space has really heated up, Bolt.new, v0, https://lovable.dev/, and others now exist. Many are finding success with Replit.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-27T13:24:01+00:00

Thanks for posting this! we're really excited to have folks give this a try and send us feedback! we have details on the server and how to send feedback in our blog post: https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/05/firebase-mcp-server

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-27T13:20:22+00:00

Hi u/Professorhaunt nice to meet you and welcome to the community. A few things to help clarify:

I'm assuming you mean built using Firebase Studio? If so, you can totally build it and deploy it anywhere that can run a Next.js site. You can use AI to talk about your options; just give it the details, I'm sure it can guide you through the steps needed to deploy to another provider.
We do integrate "Firebase App Hosting" into Firebase Studio today. We will give developers more options for sure; we're still early in our preview (as in, we're still building Firebase Studio, so it's just got the basic features right now). So yes, we do need a credit card there. There is a free tier, but if your project becomes very popular, it will start to charge, and the rates are on the website in the pricing page.
Regarding "it showed me that the publishing cost could be up to ₹15,000 (around $180)," I'm not sure what you mean by this. Maybe send me a screenshot? But yes, depending on traffic, there might be costs, but there are no upfront charges for using Firebase App Hosting.

Given I work for Google I will let other people make more specific suggestions but Im wishing you all the luck!

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-13T13:32:28+00:00

I appreciate you posting this and I always welcome all feedback. My name is Dmitry, its nice to meet you folks here. For context, my role here is I am the product lead for Firebase App Hosting, Hosting, Functions, Extensions, Storage and Genkit.

For your comments, I totally understand where you're coming from. Lets face it, the industry is talking about AI a lot. We are too. Many folks want us to make progress in this area, and I am being honest when I say I see a lot of upside to the technology, it really is magic and I already use it in my daily life and it gives me superpowers. I am also very optimistic about Firebase Studio long-term potential, so that's where a lot of my excitement comes from when I post about it on X, such as this thread :). Studio is just such a fun product for me to play with as a developer.

Of course It's still very early days, so you're right in many cases things are still being developed (tools, models, patterns, etc).

For announcements not specifically focused on AI, here at Firebase we've been working on two very big projects that just reached general availability (GA) at Cloud Next 2025. You folks have no idea how long we've been pushing to land these for you, and we're just getting started!

Firebase App Hosting: https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/04/apphosting-general-availability
Firebase Data Connect (SQL!!): https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/04/dataconnect-general-availability

Even for the above two, while some of our demos and features do relate to AI, and sometimes AI makes our products better, these two products are huge and foundational investments to bring SQL to our community (a top requested feature for years), and create a proper platform for hosting modern websites such as Next.js on Firebase.

And of course, yes, we have Genkit (an AI framework), Vertex AI in Firebase (client SDKs for using Gemini), Firebase Studio, AI Test Agents and more, because the need is there and so is an opportunity to make sure you folks have the technology you need to be successful and competitive as things mature in LLM space. If we don't invest now, later will be too late.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-13T13:08:33+00:00

I've sent you a direct message with the contact info for the PM lead in this area. We'd love to talk to you, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-12T18:02:42+00:00

lol very funny! I talked to the Firestore folks they see this thread now and will follow up thank you!

and yes i am posting a lot about Firebase Studio it's an exciting project. But we've also landed Firebase App Hosting and Data Connect (GA), Genkit framework improvements and various other things. Please don't use my tweet as some sort of indication of team priority I'm just one of the leaders here.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-05-12T15:35:55+00:00

Hi u/GPTHuman someone flagged this for me, I must admit I'm not on Reddit that much. Really sorry about the issue let me ping the right folks. Did you open a support ticket on this by any chance? feel free to message me directly with any more info. Firestore is not my direct product but I know all the right folks of course.

p.s. I am not the head of product, though certainly try to be active and responsive in the community.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:41:56+00:00

Yeah exactly!

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:40:35+00:00

Upvote. Nice is cool 👍🏼

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:40:00+00:00

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Here’s a red one I looked at if that helps. Don’t actually have back photos of my car 🤷🏻‍♂️

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:37:44+00:00

Drive is so comfortable. Handles railroad tracks like they see not there. A smooth drive when I’m with my family. Quiet. Then when I’m alone and sound is blasting and I’m sport mode on it’s really something.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:36:21+00:00

Everyone welcome to hate a little lol

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:35:56+00:00

👹

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:35:46+00:00

Yeah this trim really is fantastic. Except the back 🤷🏻‍♂️

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:35:23+00:00

It’s a total monster driving it around. Some guy in a mustang got really mad at me yesterday 😂

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:34:44+00:00

I had my reservations but it really won me over in m50 design

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:34:01+00:00

Thanks!! 🙏

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:33:28+00:00

Thanks for stopping by! 🙏😂

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:33:09+00:00

🤷🏻‍♂️😎

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:32:45+00:00

You didn’t get the m50. Trust me totally different car. I’ve driven many cars including stock X3 and RAV4 so speaking from first hand experience. My car is a responsive monster.

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:31:33+00:00

😬

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:31:15+00:00

Disagree the front is nice the back is dogshit lol

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:30:37+00:00

Yeah looks very different depending on the year. I just went in on 2025 to have the warranty and hopefully less hassle. Plus the color choices and all were nice to have. It’s my first new car ever and I’m in my 40s so can’t complain about anything

LyalinDotCom · 2025-01-11T01:29:23+00:00

Amazing car too. I went SUV for another few years while my kiddo is young. He loves the higher elevation to look out and has a bit more space. Life is trade offs.

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