Quick feedback - it was quite hard to spot a price without registering. I usually go to "sign up" page to see all of the packages, yet in this case the only place to find a price is to scroll down the front page and find it buried there after a few screens of text.
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
#12I really like it but outlook has templates and Gmail has canned responses. Email tracking is nice but it's commonly used by your customers and it's a flawed metric as images are not always displayed (and counted).
It's a nice piece of work. Please update us after a month with how it's going.
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#13Maybe 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…
Can someone explain exactly how different it is to build on top of PayPal API vs Chargify API?
- What are the fees I have to pay?
- What are the features I get?
I'm thinking of trying an idea of a paid service for a first time and just trying to figure it out.
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#14Maybe 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.
The principle is good. But is it really painless to change payment API and hosting platform?
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#15Nice work!
Since you're already letting people login with google, it might make it easier for people to pay if you accepted payment via google checkout.
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#16Maybe 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…
Thanks to Heroku we don't have any sysadmins on staff, and none of us have to think about system administration for even a quarter of a second. That time then goes into product development and increasing revenue. It'd be WAY more expensive to have one of our developers doing system work, or, even worse, to actually pay someone full-time to handle it.
The only people complaining about Heroku pricing are those who aren't generating revenue, for profitable companies, it's a no-brainer.
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can always reduce overhead after you gain some traction.
The principle is good. But is it really painless to change payment API and hosting platform?
That is a "good pain to have" as it were, and the reduced friction gets you iterating more quickly.
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#18Not trying to be a jerk but your logo is quite similar to Socialwok.com
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The principle is good. But is it really painless to change payment API and hosting platform?
That is a "good pain to have" as it were, and the reduced friction gets you iterating more quickly.
I call those "Maserati Problems", as in, "I'll think about how to deal with that as I drive around in my Maserati."
Re: How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud
#20I really like it but outlook has templates and Gmail has canned responses. Email tracking is nice but it's commonly used by your customers and it's a flawed metric as images are not always displayed (and counted). It's a nice piece of work. Please update us after a month with how it's going.
The beauty of this is a) I get what I need for my primary business because Outlook and Gmail wasn't good enough and b) even if NO ONE else likes this, I've only lost 3 days, which I'm OK with.
I'll do a reflection on this in about a month or so.