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How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud

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Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud

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post #4

Sorry about that guys, I was trying to write a little script to auto-post and it had a bug. Correct link: http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/04/how-i-used-heroku-chargi...

Maybe you can you put in a redirect using mod_rewrite

Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud

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post #4

Sorry about that guys, I was trying to write a little script to auto-post and it had a bug. Correct link: http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/04/how-i-used-heroku-chargi...

Maybe you can you put in a redirect using mod_rewrite

done!

Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud

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Maybe with a longer development time you could have built something that would incur lower overhead over the long term. Heroku and Chargify become quite expensive if your business grows to any significant degree. Instead, building directly on top of the Paypal API and deploying to a hosting provider that will not bankrupt you as you scale would be a more optimal approach -- you won't get your site up in 3 days but with higher margins you will likely have fewer regrets down the road.

Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud

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post #7

Maybe with a longer development time you could have built something that would incur lower overhead over the long term. Heroku and Chargify become quite expensive if your business grows to any significant degree. Instead, building directly on top of the Paypal API and deploying to a hosting provider that will not bankrupt you as you scale would be a more optimal approach -- you won't get your site up in 3 days but wi…

You can always reduce overhead after you gain some traction.
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