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I’ve built a significant number of relatively sophisticated applications as internal tools and one public application (which is used daily by ~300 people) using
by saaaaaam 5y ago
I’ve built a significant number of relatively sophisticated applications as internal tools and one public application (which is used daily by ~300 people) using Airtable, Stacker, typeform, carrd, twilio and integromat. I also use MagicBell, Infinity and ApproveIt (a slack approvals tool)
By “relatively sophisticated” I mean “would have cost me a significant amount in dev time to do this” and “have useful functionality that I can’t get out of the box elsewhere”.
- smoldesu 5y agoJust out of curiosity, how much do you pay for that stack per year?
- saaaaaam 5y agoStacker is about $3000 a year; Integromat is about $1500; Airtable is $240 per user per year and I think I’ve got six users (but you’d only need one to do what I’m doing); Twilio is pennies - maybe $100 a year; Carrd is insanely cheap - $49 a year I think; Typeform is around $600 a year So I guess I’m laying out somewhere in the region of $5250 a year or $450 a month. That’s split across several projects. The beauty is I can prototype an idea in minutes (ok, there was a learning curve, but now it’s super super fast) and then test and push to “production” in hours. I rebuilt my primary application in about three hours recently, massively improving the user experience. The costs against the business value are trivial.
- smoldesu 5y agoPhew, I'd be deathly afraid of relying on that much proprietary software. Good luck all the same!
- saaaaaam 5y agoNot really sure what you mean here. All the business applications I use are proprietary. That’s the same for most businesses: you buy tools to get the job done! The advantage of these ones is that I can very quickly customise them to do exactly what I need.