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My interpretation of a business is a repeatable mechanism for generating profit. Starting a business takes lots of effort and time. Once you have it running, a
by seibelj 10y ago
My interpretation of a business is a repeatable mechanism for generating profit. Starting a business takes lots of effort and time. Once you have it running, a good software side business should take very little time. You put the time in at the beginning. Once it's working, you should be able to make money without trying.
By using pay-for SaaS companies, you might save time, but as a one-man developer, I'm not in a race for success. I want to build something that lasts ideally for years if not decades that sends cash directly into my bank account. If you rely on an SaaS product, you will be paying them money for decades. And if they go out of business, you need to put more effort into finding a replacement.
By building everything myself, I pay nobody anything, and the only risk is that I go out of business. And if I build more side businesses, I can reuse my existing infrastructure and reduce their costs as well.
- billmalarky 10y agoWhy not use SAAS to launch faster, then replace SAAS with in-house after you've built market share?
- seibelj 10y agoFor many things building it yourself doesn't take that much longer than doing an integration with a SaaS product. Usually I need 1 or 2 features that are a small piece of a much larger product.
- brianwawok 10y agoDo you have concrete examples? Maybe this is getting too complex to use abstracts for.
- seibelj 10y agoserver monitoring to ensure that it responds and is running. I solved it with a cron job. Lots of other server monitoring software with bells and whistles, didn't need it
- billmalarky 10y agoNew relic sever monitoring my friend. It's free (emphasis because I was shocked when I looked up pricing) and takes all of 5 minutes to setup (no exaggeration, it uses yum for 99% of setup). https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-linux/installation-configuration/servers-installation-redhat-centos https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-lin...
- brianwawok 10y agoHow is it free when it says it is 10 cents per hour per host? There is a LITE plan but it seems like no alerting?
- billmalarky 10y agoHmm, it looks like they have changed their pricing strategy. When I first signed up it was no strings attached free as a loss-leader to move you towards using their application monitoring products. https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-here/ https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-he... So far I appear to still be grandfathered into the the free server plan? Anyways, I guess you can disregard my original comment.
- brianwawok 10y agoThere are a fair amount of pingdom clones out there with free trials. Throw a few of them at a webpage that does select count(*) from users query, and you can get notified within a minute or two of a failure (for free).