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Ask HN: How do you build a service?
I have an idea for an eCommerce web app that I want to launch either late this year or early next year (I'll be testing and such before then). There will be a self-hosted solution for open-source lovers, and a hosted service for people who don't want to deal with setup and maintenance.
My question is this: How do I actually get started with the hosted service? I've never done anything like this, so some pointers would be much appreciated. I plan to use DigitalOcean because I love their offerings.
Actually, one more thing! Every store would be a sub-domain, like how accounts are on deviantART. Need to figure out how to make that happen automatically via sign-up though.
- miyuru 11y agofor the sub domain part you can use a wild card sub domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record
- NetOpWibby 11y agoHuh, that's interesting. Thanks for the link!
- tixocloud 11y agoFor the hosted service, you'll want to determine what are some of the core functionality that your users will care about. For folks who don't want to do deal with setup and maintenance, they could be a completely separate crowd than the folks who will be downloading your open-source version. You'll have to balance the needs of both audiences. What's critical will be to start chatting with people to get an idea of what they want. Inexpensive options like DigitalOcean are great (we're on there as well) for testing out ideas. However, you'll have to balance technology choice, ease of implementation and costs as well. Feel free to shoot me a message if you wanted to chat further.
- NetOpWibby 11y agoWill do, thanks!
- NetOpWibby 11y agoActually, how do I send messages on HN?
- ddorian43 11y agoNot possible, click on their profile name and hope for a way to contact to them personally or comment under them to request a contact or comment under them with your contact.