Hi Google Cloud team,
I have a fully functional website with both a landing page and a working dashboard. I recently applied to the Google Cloud for Startups Program and received a rejection with the following reason:
“All of the information should be visible and easily accessible from your public website. As it is now, there is no access to this information from your company’s landing page.”
However, I provided a publicly accessible URL in the application that included all required information:
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Business description
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Founder background
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Screenshots of the live product
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Current beta status and production readiness
This page was not linked from the root domain because the platform is currently in private beta — a common and deliberate strategy for early-stage infrastructure products. The platform is live and in active use; it simply isn’t advertised broadly yet.
I’d like to ask for clarification:
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Is it Google’s policy to reject applications based solely on whether a public URL is linked from the main homepage?
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Does the program require personal or sensitive company details to be published on a product homepage, even during private beta?
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For cases where the company and product use separate domains (which is common in SaaS/infra), how should this be handled?
I’d appreciate a clear response for founders who are building real infrastructure products but choose to control visibility during early rollout.
Thanks,
dns-nsp
Early-stage founder