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exposing methods for the purpose of testing is bad design, whether or not you are only doing it in a test environment. if you have a method that is sufficiently complex and warrant…

"saying you don't need to own/run servers for things like a podcast is just pissing money into the wind." - that's probably true. i may end up doing something like your suggesting …

I'm serving files from Amazon S3. This gives me the benefit of world class storage and streaming, without having to own / run the servers myself. Bandwidth from them is "cheap" at …

good point. maybe a shorter trial to start with, for the early version though :)

true! i tried to make that point at the very end of the post... maybe should have emphasized it more

thanks! :) i totally get the need to move things in house, too. i'm pretty happy that i can get the right experience for my users without having to do that, at this point. IaaS is …

definitely things that need to be considered - vendor lock in being the worst, IME. i'm less worried about API call integration, as i tend to isolate 3rd party APIs from my code...…

good points that need to be considered in building your startup! it's a balancing act, i think, and that balance will change over time. for me, with an early stage of my service, b…

I really like http://www.karmacrm.com - probably should have included that in my list