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Ask HN: Have any successful businesses been built around Amazon Devpay?
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Re: Ask HN: Have any successful businesses been built around Amazon Devpay?
#2I know one good example. Gurobi (http://www.gurobi.com/) sells a very advanced Linear Programming (LP) and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solver. The software is more than 10K+ for a license. They use paid AMI's that let you run their software for $4-8/hour, depending on the instance size (High Memory Extra Large to High Memory Quadruple Extra Large).
I imagine is it a good way for them to get over the chicken and egg problem. It is hard for developers to convince their managers that it will solve their problem without trying it, and they can't try it without the software. It also allows people like me to experiment with Gurobi without much up front cost.
Re: Ask HN: Have any successful businesses been built around Amazon Devpay?
#3I use DevPay for S3stat.
They built it as a way to upsell Amazon Web Services, but I don't use it that way. It turns out that it's also a dead-simple way to handle recurring payments for a web application. It's orders of magnitude less work to implement than Amazon's other payment services.
The downside is that they don't put much love into it. Obvious features, such as manually cancelling a subscription or being notified when somebody cancels are missing, so there is a bit of pain to offset the ease of getting it up and running.
That said, I'd use it again.