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So, that's a few months of dev time and a few thousand dollars of investment (VPSes, designer time, etc) that I won't get back. Was this before services like H
by dwwoelfel 15y ago
So, that's a few months of dev time and a few thousand dollars of investment (VPSes, designer time, etc) that I won't get back.
Was this before services like Heroku and Google App Engine existed? The free tiers make failing much less painful.
Edit: One of my failed apps, http://app.reminderbear.com http://app.reminderbear.com is still in existence thanks to Google App Engine. It has about 10 or 15 happy users that can keep using the service forever. It only costs me $10/year for the domain name.
- patio11 15y agoI do not optimize my development practices for "least cost in event of project failure", principally because the maximum cost in event of project failure is not a meaningful hardship for me at this point in my life.